The following symptoms and complaints may occur together with sore throat:
Leading symptom
- Sore throat
Associated symptoms
- General feeling of illness
- Fever
- Dysphonia (hoarseness)
- Irritative cough
- Dysphagia (swallowing disorder)
Warning signs (red flags)
- Anamnestic information:
- HIV, gonorrhea, diphtheria (grayish pseudomembranous vouchers whose removal provokes bleeding).
- Immunosuppression
- Stridor (whistling breathing sound that occurs on inspiration and/or expiration (inspiratory/expiratory stridor)) or respiratory impairment: Epiglottitis (inflammation of the epiglottis), acute; leading symptoms are inspiratory stridor and dysphagia (difficulty swallowing).
- Agranulocytic angina (rare, e.g., with thyrostatic drugs).
