Throat Cancer: The Ignored cause

Throat cancer is creating an alarm, because like other kinds of cancer, even well known personalities are not exempt from the problem.

If you ask me about the definition of throat cancer, I will refer you to check Mayo Clinic, and any other medical websites. They will define it to you and explain it in details - the different names, stages, tests, and medical treatments you will have to go through. However, there is one thing they cannot do – to pinpoint one of the real cause of throat cancer.

Again, like the other problems, I talked about already, and all the other problems I will be talking in the future are all based in my own experiences. So, the knowledge you will get here is from non-medical educated person, whose education about health is all based on experience, and observations of his body as experimental subject. So, I advise you to not continue if you want things scientifically proven by years of studies, and experimentations.

The ignored cause of throat cancer 

Cold drinks 
         I do not know how to explain this one, but my experience taught me that drinking ice cold drinks, such as water, cola, and anything cold – straight from the refrigerator is dangerous to your throat.

As a child, we were told by my mother, that when you are tired, and have been working under the sun, and feeling very thirsty – do not drink immediately. Cool off first before you drink.

It is a common practice that once we arrived home we immediately look for water – cold water. Not aware this practice upsets the cells of our throat. In an hour, or few hours, or after 24 hours it starts to get inflamed. The problem is even when it is inflamed, we continue drinking cold water, aggravating the problem.



Like what I have said, I am talking based from my experiences, so if you do not believe me, why not give a try for yourself to know firsthand. Once you get into your home, thirsty from a hot summer day, take a very cold drink. That would explain everything. Observe how you feel afterwards. You will keep drinking and feeling thirsty even after downing a liter of cold liquid. If it saved your throat, you might not avoid the queasy feeling. If it is not the throat, it could be the other organs. Other effects of this practice would be, headaches, ulcer like pain, nausea, fever, and flu.

If you have a strong immune system, good – but don’t abuse it. Because, I am sure, your time will come.

I am glad I have a mother who did not even finish fourth grade. If she became a doctor, she would not have learned the old folks simple and cheap health remedy.

Every time I got throat problems which usually caused fever, because of not being able to control myself to drink cold water after coming in from a hot weather, my mother was my doctor. While reprimanding me, reminding me of the bad effect of what I did, she would prepare her first aid simple remedy - water therapy. Are you surprised? Drinking from cold water was the cause of the problem, but she was again using water to treat it.

How did she use water to treat the problem?

Simple, to treat sore throat, make a warm to hot water with salt and gurgle with it. Why hot water? Well, this is where we un-educated people cannot explain. All we know is it works most of the time. But my guess is, may be the hot water kills bacteria that caused the inflammation, and to relax the frozen cells. Why the salt added? I believe it also helps to kill the bacteria – probably.

However, since I stayed here in Baguio city where the weather is cold, and never gets very hot, I completely “forgot” my mother’s advice. When we go down to the lowlands, I would drink cold water, and nothing happened, so, I thought I am a grown up boy. Sore throat cannot touch me anymore. My mistake, in 1998 when I was going down to Manila every other day for two weeks, sore throat affected me. On the third day, it was hard to swallow, and I had fever. The 4th day, I cannot swallow at all, so, had to press under my chin in order to do it. I am glad my mother’s old advice came back to my memory. I immediately boiled water with an added salt, and used it to counter-act the problem. Hard headed, I was not convinced that my body could not fight the effect of cold water, so I experimented, the effect was the same. Thus, I told myself to stop playing or I will pay the price.

Yet, the experience I believe left me a sensitive throat until now. Each time I drink ice-cold beer, or any cold drinks, I always get an inflamed throat. I am just lucky, that each time, my mother's remedy always work each time.

Throat Cancer: Common Cause

Throat cancer is a strange kind of sickness in the rural areas of the Philippines. It is only in the urban area or places where refrigerator and water coolers are common that the problem is also becoming a common word.

The common cause of throat cancer according to the Mayo Clinic is due to cell mutations in the throat, (The Throat cancer occurs when cells in your throat develop genetic mutations. These mutations cause cells to grow uncontrollably and continue living after healthy cells would normally die. The accumulating cells can form a tumor in your throat.
It's not clear what causes the mutation that causes throat cancer...Mayo Clinic)

However, it is interesting that their concentration is about the mutation of cells and not the real cause before the mutation that causes cancer, and the company’s advice, “You can reduce your risk of throat cancer by not smoking, not chewing tobacco, and limiting alcohol use” is even far to satisfactory.


Well, long time ago, my mother taught me what are the basic things to avoid in taking care of my throat from sore throat, inflammations, and losing the voice.

These were her simple advice that she learned from her mother who learned it first from her mother...and so on.

In general, never drink ice cold water, and any other drinks; as much as possible take room temperature water or water put away in a clay jar
When it is hot, drink hot tea, coffee, or simply warm to hot water
When it is hot and you drink ice-cold water, it will encourage more drinking which results to bloating, unexplained feeling of queasiness, and sore throat, throat inflammation and losing your voice.

How about drinking alcohol? In my experience, the alcohol does not cause the problem, but the ice added to the alcohol drink is the reason. For the case of beer, the ice-cold ones always cause problem in my throat. However, some people may still be affected by the strong taste of the alcohol, so, it's not bad if observation is done.

And smoking? Smoking dries the throat, so, there is a big chance the skin lining of the throat will be irritated and become inflamed.

Kanser Sa Lalamunan: Simpleng Pag-iwas (Makalumang Kaalamang Pilipino sa Kalusugan)

Payong makaluma, pero hanggang ngayon ay epektibo at talagang di pa rin kumukupas ang bisa.

Sa panahon ngayon na halos lahat ng mga remedyo na ipinapayo ng mga doktor ay may halong negosyo,  di tayo nakakasigurado kung siguradong epektibo  bukod sa napakamahal ang presyo.   Tulad halimbawa ng sakit na KANSER SA LALAMUNAN na napakauso ngayon sa ibang bansa.  Maraming mga naooperahan at namamatay dahil ang mga naging biktima ay hindi naman napayuhan ng husto kung papaano ito maiwasan pagkatapos mabigyan ng mga mamahalin na gamot.  

Ano nga ba naman ang ipapayo ng mga doktor ngayon eh, masyado naman silang tiwala sa siyensya at binale wala na ang mga makalumang payo ng ating mga ninuno na talaga namang batay din sa kanilang mga karanasan, na kung tutuusin ay isang klase din ng agham dahil maraming eksperimento din ang ginawa (sa pamamagitan ng obserbasyon sa mga resulta ng kanilang mga ginagawa gaya sa kalusugan) bagaman walang tala o rekord na ginawa.

Isa dito ay ang kung papaano maiwasan ang sorethroat o sakit sa lalamunan na kadalasan, pag hindi maagapan o hindi mag-iingat ang tao ay nagreresulta sa “THROAT CANCER” o KANSER SA LALAMUNAN.

Malamig na inumin:  Sanhi ng KANSER SA LALAMUNAN

Ano ba ang mangyayari kung uminom ng malamig kapag galing sa mainit?

Kapag galing ka sa mainit at uminom ka agad ng malamig na tubig, ang resulta ay mas lalo kang mauuhaw at gusto mong uminom ulit at ito ay paulit-ulit dahil hindi napapawi ang pagkauhaw. Ang kadalasang resulta nito ay ang pagkabusog o Bloating sa englis na dimo maipaliwanag kung ano ang nararamdaman.  Ang tawag dito sa ating mga pinoy ay SINISIKMURA o nalamigan.

Pangalawang hindi magandang resulta ng pag-inom ng mga malamig na malamig na inumin kapag galing sa mainit o kaya’y pagod, ay ang pagkasira ng LALAMUNAN. Kapag di natin ikontrol ang sarili natin na uminom ng mga malalamig ay palagi rin matatamaan ang ating lalamunan at sa kalaunan ay nagreresulta sa pamamaga at pananakit na pwedeng maging sanhi ng sakit na KANSER SA LALAMUNAN(THROAT CANCER)

Mga Payo sa pag-alaga ng lalamunan

Kadalasan, kapag ang isang tao ay nauuhaw ay gusto niyang uminom ng malamig na malamig na tubig o sa ngayon ay ang pag-inom ng mga kola.

Ang ugaling ito ang mahigpit na ipinagbawal sa akin ng aking nanay noong bata pa ako dahil ayon sa kanya ay hindi maganda sa lalamunan at sa katawan. (Eto ay natutunan din nya sa kanyang ina noong sila ay bata pa na nagtatrabaho sa bukid sa kasagsagan ng mainit na araw)

Ang payo nya ay kapag galing kami sa init at nauuhaw, mas mainam na uminom kami ng mainit na tsa’a o TEA, o mainit na tubig para maiwasan ang pagkapasma (Biglang pagkakasakit at kung minsan daliang pagkamatay ng tao), o kaya ay ang pamamaga ng lalamunan o sorethroat.  Kadalasan ay namamaus o nawawala ang boses, at pag namaga ay nagreresulta sa pagkainpeksyon ng lalamunan na bumabagsak sa KANSER kung hindi maalagaan.

Paano nila ito alam?

Ang tao ay binigyan ng MAYKAPAL ng sariling talino na sa pamamagitan lamang ng paulit-ulit at mataimtim na obserbasyon sa isang pangyayari ay nalalaman nya ang dahilan at mga bunga.  Sa modernong panahon ay binigyan lang ng moderno din na pangalan kaya binabalewala ang ang mga kaalaman ng mga naunang tao noong unang panahon.

Eto ay mga simpleng bagay lamang pero hindi alam ng mga sobrang talino “kuno” na mga tao. 

PAALALA

Sa ngayon ay maraming nagkakasakit ng kanser sa lalamunan kasabay ng pagiging madalian na lamang kasing buksan ang ref na palamigan ng inumin.  Maliban sa kanser na mapapala ng tao ay malaking pinansyal ang gagastusin para magamot lamang.

Pero, kapag sundin ang simpleng payo na eto, ay magiging malusog ka na makakatipid ka pa sa gastusin.

Mahirap paniwalaan pero payo yan na sa ngayon ay namamatay na dahil mga matatanda ngayon ay di na iginagalang ang kanilang mga kaalaman.

At kung gustong patunayan, madali lamang... obserbahan ang reaksyon ng katawan sa sunodsunod na pag-inom ng malamig.