Dysphagia is the medical term used when patients report trouble swallowing. Dysphagia is not necessarily associated with pain to swallow, but rather to a subjective sense of difficulty in making food go down the path between the mouth and stomach. Pain swallowing sore throat is called and is usually related to frames of sore throat. Sore throat and dysphagia are different symptoms that may occur in different diseases, hence the importance of knowing how to distinguish them.
Neck pain is a very bothersome symptom, which usually occur in both adults and children. Overall, the sore throat is caused by an inflammation of the tonsils or pharynx, frames called tonsillitis and pharyngitis, respectively. When both are inflamed, very common situation, we say that the patient has a tonsillitis.
