It is cold season and the school nurse been asked to provide an educational event for the parent teacher organization of the local elementary school. What should the nurse include in teaching about the treatment of pharyngitis?

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Depending on the severity of the pharyngitis and the degree of pain, warm saline gargles or throat
irrigations are used. The benefits of this treatment depend on the degree of heat that is applied. The nurse teaches about these procedures and about the recommended temperature of the solution: high enough to be effective and as warm as the patient can tolerate, usually $105 \mathrm{~F}$ to $110 \mathrm{~F}$ ( $40.6 \mathrm{C}$ to $43.3 \mathrm{C}$ ). Irrigating the throat may reduce spasm in the pharyngeal muscles and relieve soreness of the throat. You would not tell the parent teacher organization that there is no real treatment of pharyngitis.

It Is Cold Season and the School Nurse Been Asked