What does it mean when you get a lump in your throat?!


Question: What does it mean when you get a lump in your throat.?
Why and how does that happen.?Health Question & Answer


Answers:
You made me think with this one. I'm not positive but it would seem that when you get emotional the structures in your throat swell as does your nasal passages and tear ducts in preparation to cry. Probably because of your holding back your emotion by straining your neck and throat muscles.
Hope that's what you meant.
If not, a lump in your throat could be a swelling of either or both of the thyroid glands. Or a swelling of the salivary ducts and glands. There are lymph nodes in your neck as well which would swell in response to an infection. You'd have to be more specific as to the location. That I didn't have to think about.Health Question & Answer

A lump in your throat could be a few different minor things. Stress causes a feeling of a lump, excess mucus, or you could have scratched your throat with something you ate like toast, chips or other hard foods.Health Question & Answer

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