What causes feeling of lump in throat or something stuck in throat? – Dr. Satish Babu K

“Feeling of lump of actual small small occurring in the throat is a very common thing nowadays, these are actually, harmless unless they are progressively enlarging in size, becoming more symptomatic like pain, redness, ulcerating, burning sensation, unable to eat, then only these need to be looked at. Normally, if you look at a person’s throat, the surface of it has small small bulges, which are sometimes bigger, may be they grow up to 5mm – 7mm in size, they are actively infected. They are similar to the tissues found in tonsils, they are spread all over the wall of the throat, right at the back, where you can open the mouth and see them directly. If they are remaining in the same size and not painful, they can safely be left alone. During an infection, there are going to be much more swollen and painful, but after treating infection, they will probably take a couple of weeks to shrink to their normal size, and lot of times disappear also. Lymph nodes that can happen around the neck when you’ve a tonsillitis, outside you see a bulge happening. These bulges are lymph nodes, they disappear as they are treated.
Same lymph nodes structure are there in the throat, which can be seen as a lumps in the throat. Feeling of stuck in throat can happen due to variety of reasons including acid reflux. Acid reflux leads to the acid coming up into the throat through the foodpipe from the stomach, to a certain level, foodpipe can tolerate the acid. If the acid keeps coming above that level, then there is a little burning happening, the upper valve, in the foodpipe will start becoming tighter, making you feel stuck sensation, little difficulty in swallowing. The other common cause would be because of little dryness happening, which can occur in certain seasons more if the person is not taking enough liquids regularly or there was an infection and person is recovering from it, the throat gets dried up leading to some sensation, irritation, aching and coughing. “