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Are you constantly anxious that the person next to you might catch an odor that you cannot detect yourself? It is especially frustrating when your nose feels fine, yet an unpleasant smell seems to rise from your mouth. Even after checking in the mirror and brushing your teeth diligently, that uncomfortable sensation remains. Could this be a distress signal sent by your nose?

To all the women who brush it off saying it is fine when it really is not, do you find it difficult because of a stuffy feeling like something is caught in your throat, along with persistent throat-clearing or dry coughs? Does this growing foreign body sensation feel like plum-pit qi, making you shrink back from the glances of people around you even with a mask on? Let us look calmly together into the culprits of all this discomfort: postnasal drip and chronic cough.

Even after brushing thoroughly and using mouthwash, an unpleasant, stale odor may still linger. You might have also noticed a yellowish, rice-grain-like pebble suddenly pop out of your throat. These small deposits could be tonsilloliths, the primary reason behind persistent bad breath.

Do you clear your throat dozens of times a day with a frequent 'ahem' due to an unpleasant sensation of something sticky dripping down the back of your throat? If you cannot fall asleep at night because of a foreign body sensation in your throat and start your morning by spitting up phlegm, could you be dismissing it, thinking, 'Is it just a cold that lingers too long?' It is not simply a cold. Behind your persistent throat discomfort, postnasal drip, experienced by more people today than you might think, may be concealed.