Mouth ulcers can also make the throat sore. The main symptom of a sore throat is a raw feeling at the back of your throat, which may look red and inflamed. Your throat can feel dry and you will probably have difficulty swallowing. Other possible symptoms are hoarseness or loss of voice and swollen glands in your neck. If you have glandular fever or 'kissing disease', which mostly affects young adults from 15 years upwards, you are likely to have a high temperature, a headache and swollen glands in your neck, armpits or groin, a high temperature and a headache.
Oral thrush makes itself known through sore, creamy-coloured patches in the mouth.
With tonsillitis, which mostly occurs in children, the tonsils at the back of the throat will be bright red, often with yellow pus spots. Strep throat, which also affects children more than adults, usually needs to be treated with antibiotics. The symptoms are a sore throat, swollen neck glands, fever and general discomfort. The infection can lead to scarlet fever, which produces tiny red spots all over the body and a white-coated red tongue. Mouth ulcers are small white, grey or yellow spots with an inflamed red border, appearing either on their own or in clusters.