Thursday, 2 October 2008

Ticklish throat

Do you have a tickle in your throat? If your throat tickles, scratch your ear! "When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm," says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose, and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. "This spasm relieves the tickle."

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