question: I have a cold & sore throat.No big deal on its own. However, this morning I found it incredibly hard to breathe (this was in throat, near voice box), and it was very noisy while I was gasping for breath. I do not have a cough, am not short of breath (apart from the incident which lasted a couple of minutes), and my throat is very dry. I was sleping upright at the time.

Please can you let me know what the problem was, and anything I should do to avoid it happening again.