Pain the moment you eat or even drink water, with nausea and a throat cough, points to acid-related gastritis with reflux irritating the throat - not a chest infection, since you have no fever. Start a PPI like pantoprazole 40 mg empty stomach in the morning for 2 weeks, small frequent bland meals, no chillies, tea on empty stomach, alcohol or painkillers like ibuprofen. Antibiotics are not needed here. Get a CBC and an H. pylori stool antigen test - young men with this pattern are often H. pylori positive and it needs a specific 14-day course. Go to a hospital immediately if you vomit blood, pass black tarry stools, or the pain becomes severe and constant. Consult me on Practo with your reports and I will write the exact course.
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