What is chronic and acute tonsillitis, is contagious, as transmitted, how dangerous, how much is treated, what complications and consequences? Whether it is necessary to remove tonsils at a chronic tonsillitis, whether it is possible to heat a throat, to go to a bath, what it is impossible to eat?

One of the most serious complications of the common cold and sore throat is tonsillitis. To treat this disease should be complex.

What is chronic and acute tonsillitis?

Tonsillitis is an unpleasant disease that has an infectious nature. It is capable of damaging one or several tonsils of ( there are only six of them in humans).Most often suffer tonsils of the palatine, which are first susceptible to bacteria and viruses. The main and most "bright" symptom of tonsillitis is the discomfort and acute pain, affecting the throat.

INTERESTING: Tonsils are considered an internal human body and part of its immune system .They consist of lymphoid tissues , being a part of the lymphatic system. Tonsils are located in the oral cavity( the so-called palatine ring) and in the nasopharynx. The person has paired palatine tonsils, twin tube tonsils, unpaired pharyngeal tonsil and lingual.

The location of the tonsils

The function of the tonsils is very simple and understandable - they serve as a kind of barrier , which does not allow penetrating various infections deeper into the internal organs of the and the respiratory tract. But, along with this, if the tonsils are not treated( or do it wrong), over time they themselves can turn into a "source of problems".

IMPORTANT: Running inflamed tonsils can spread the infection throughout the body.

A person can experience two kinds of tonsillitis .The disease has acute and chronic form:

• Acute tonsillitis is a consequence of direct contact with the infection. The disease can have complications if a person gets hypothermia, has weak immunity or is often in a state of stress, as well as overwork. If you do not get rid of acute tonsillitis in time, it can really turn into a chronic disease. Many people know this tonsillitis in everyday life, like a sore throat.
• Chronic tonsillitis - the consequences of acute inflammation of the tonsils of pharyngeal, as well as palatine tonsils. Most often this complication develops after a sore throat or any other diseases in which the mucosa is affected by an infection( eg, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria).There is a toxic-allergic variety of this disease, when the main symptom( sore throat) is associated with high fever, inflammation of the lymph, complications of the heart. A complex form of chronic tonsillitis is characterized by the spread of inflammatory processes on the ears, in the nasal sinuses, the development of lymphatic abscesses, the defeat of internal organs.

Inflammation of tonsils

Where does tonsillitis come from, how is it transmitted?

This disease differs ability to be easily transmitted from person to person .The most common causes of tonsillitis are :

• The presence of an infection or virus in the external environment( the period of quarantine).
• Transfer of disease from a sick person to a healthy person by airborne droplets: kiss, cough, sneezing and other ways.
• Through food, dishes and cutlery( the virus remains in the saliva).
• If a person has any "focus" of inflammatory disease( caries, sinusitis or others), self-infection can occur, that is, the disease flows from one system to another.

IMPORTANT: Tonsillitis is aroused by a bacterium, most commonly belonging to the streptococcal group "A".The same causes of the disease can be seasonal viruses, mycoplasmas and less often chlamydia.

How can I get tonsillitis?

Chronic tonsillitis: contagious or not?

Chronic tonsillitis are the effects of acute tonsillitis, which often occurs in the off-season( with high air humidity, temperature changes).The disease is characterized by protracted inflammatory processes of the tonsils , tonsillitis times the protective function of the immune system, the person feels bad, feels weak.

The following diseases can affect the development of chronic tonsillitis:

• Sinusitis - inflammation of the nasal sinuses
• Angina - sore throat
• Sinusitis - inflammation of the maxillary sinuses
• Caries, stomatitis and periodontitis - infections in the oral cavity.

If a patient does not heal these diseases in time, and also frequently expose his body to seasonal viruses and infections, a person can acquire a chronic form of tonsillitis .Chronic tonsillitis is a disease that does not heal until the end and every time occurs with weakened immunity. You can get infected with acute tonsillitis, and eventually get a chronic form.

Chronic and acute forms of the disease

Tonsillitis: psychosomatics of the disease

Tonsillitis is a disease, having a psychosomatic basis .In particular, there is a medical opinion stating that any disease occurs on the basis of nervous disorders .That is, the tonsillitis may appear due to negative emotions and feelings of , depressing you for a very long time.

The connection between psychosomatics and throat diseases is very clear, because its main function is to reproduce the voice for communication and expressing personal emotions of .In such situations, when a person restrains his feelings, does not allow himself to say too much, feels unjust, his body is a lot of physiological processes that do not experience their implementation.

Not infrequently tonsillitis occurs in children experiencing excessive parental care .This is because the mother or father often takes upon themselves the responsibility to decide and speak for their child. As a result, the baby does not learn to express his own thoughts and suffers his state of mind.

If the ligaments of a person strain and the brain gives a clear command to "be silent", the human voice organ can very often "suffer" and be predisposed to tonsillitis for psychological reasons.

Psychosomatics and tonsillitis are closely related

Than tonsillitis is dangerous: consequences of the disease

Tonsillitis - is a dangerous disease for a person .First of all, it extremely negatively affects the human immune system .Tonsillitis affects the palatine tonsils, which can make the work not only in the respiratory system, but also in the digestive system.

During treatment of tonsillitis it is important to deal with the complete elimination of the disease and exclude absolutely all negative factors:

• Drinking
• Smoking
• Staying on cold air
• Presence of inflammatory diseases of gums

If the inflammatory process of tonsils is started, they will begin suppuration of and then tonsillitis will contributethe formation of such unpleasant consequences, such as:

• Acute angina
• Abscesses
• Purulent plugs
• Hyperemia of the tonsils
• Elevated temperature
• Enlargement of the lymph nodes

IMPORTANT: Only a professional doctor can determine the way to treat tonsillitis. It is he who prescribes treatment: general or surgical intervention.

Tonsillitis of the tonsils

Tonsillitis in pregnant women, how does the disease affect the fetus?

Unfortunately, tonsillitis is very a dangerous disease for women in the position at any term of pregnancy. The disease can cause irreparable harm not only to the woman herself, but also to the fetus in the womb.

IMPORTANT: The late tonsillitis often provokes the appearance of toxicosis. In the early stages - not infrequently becomes the cause of miscarriage.

Tonsillitis is capable of infecting the fetus in utero . First of all, the disease makes immune to women's very weak and unable to withstand other serious diseases. He is able to provoke in a woman premature birth of or vice versa, "slow down" the birth activity.

In the presence of tonsillitis in a woman in the position, she should have full supervision of the treating doctor. Frequently infected patients are prescribed a cesarean section of , instead of a natural birth.

That's why pregnant women should extremely carefully treat their health , carefully cure colds, do not expose themselves to hypothermia, once again do not risk the health of the unborn child. If the disease still hit you, do not get by self-medication, ask for help from a specialist.

Tonsillitis during pregnancy

Tonsillitis: how much is treated?

It is difficult to cure chronic tonsillitis , it is difficult and the process itself takes a long time. Treatment of the disease is not only in the intake of medications, but also in the subsequent "care" of one's health.

Most often, patients without contraindications are prescribed surgery and simply remove the tonsils. The general treatment consists of taking antibiotics, immunostimulants, antiallergic drugs. To prescribe effective treatment, the physician should fully study the microflora of the nasopharynx and the sensitivity of the patient to certain antibiotics. Ultrasound and ultraviolet physiotherapy is often prescribed.

IMPORTANT: Depending on the complexity of the disease, its neglect and the state of health of the patient, the course of treatment of tonsillitis can take from three weeks to two months.

Treatment of tonsillitis

Complications after tonsillitis, what are they?

Complications of tonsillitis unpleasant:

• Excessive increase in tonsils , their loose state, dilated canals. This will help that pieces of food can get stuck in the throat and esophagus, then rot and make a fetid smell.
• Tonsils, which often become inflamed, can isolate the special secret of .This secret forms stoppers( lumps) blocking the breath and issuing an unpleasant odor from .
• Pus, which excrete enlarged tonsils, enters the stomach ( the person swallows it).Pus disrupts the work of the stomach and becomes the cause of the disorders, stomach pains, bad odor.
• Not only tonsils can be inflamed, but all lymph nodes can also be inflamed. In particular, this can be the cause of pain in the tongue.
• Chronic tonsillitis is often the cause of in the throat, a planted voice, a sensation of a compressed throat.

Consequences of tonsillitis

Tonsillitis, pharyngitis and tonsillitis: what's the difference?

Symptomatic of chronic and acute tonsillitis is very specific and in any case it is caused by by inflammatory processes in the throat and tonsillitis.

It is necessary to distinguish all the features of the course of inflammatory processes in the throat:

• Pharyngitis - inflammation of the pharynx
• Laryngitis( angina) - inflammation of the larynx
• Tonsillitis - inflammation of the tonsils

These diseases have one similarity - , the cause of their occurrence are viruses and bacteria. You can also note the difference in symptoms between pharyngitis and laryngitis that occur during breathing and eating:

• During tonsillitis very is painful to eat
• With tonsillitis, can be visually easily diagnosed with enlarged red tonsils .
• Tonsillitis is sometimes characterized by having a white patch in the sky.
• When tonsillitis often there are problems with breathing , the lungs get little air.
• Pharyngitis is characterized by swallowing of the pharynx
• Throat with pharyngitis red
• With pharyngitis lymph nodes
• markedly increase. With pharyngitis and tonsillitis , the temperature of the of the body rises( tonsillitis is characterized by higher temperatures).
• In both cases, may appear coughing, snoring, expectoration.

Tonsillitis

Pharyngitis

Than to apply tonsils at a tonsillitis?

The qualitative treatment of tonsillitis involves internal reception of drugs and external treatment, which has many advantages:

• Ability to anesthetize
• Clear tonsils from pus
• Such treatment is harmless
• It is effective, because the medicine penetrates deeply and fights bacteria locally.
• Such treatment does not require antibiotics
• Lubrication "cauterizes" the infected areas of the tonsils.
• Treatment reduces the risk of surgical removal of tonsils

Than it is possible to lubricate the tonsils in tonsillitis:

• Collargol - astringent, antiseptic
• Lugol is a powerful antiseptic in infectious inflammatory processes.
• Solution of iodine or iodine spray is an antibiotic for suppuration of tonsils.
• Carotiline - nourishes the mucous, removes inflammation.

Do I need to lubricate the tonsils?

How are tonsils washed with tonsillitis?

Rinsing and rinsing is an important procedure for healing tonsillitis. It helps remove pus from the inflamed tonsils, food remnants, viral microorganisms and foreign substances.

Washing has many advantages:

• This is safe, because the procedure is performed by with the help of special solutions and preparations.
• The procedure is highly effective. Washing qualitatively removes even the deepest deposits of pathological contents of .
• It is possible to limit only to washing in the treatment of a not complicated stage of the disease and not to take antibiotics.
• Flushing promotes to exclude the development of fungal microflora.
• Flushing - budgetary treatment procedure
• Flushing can exclude surgical removal of tonsils.
• Washing has no contraindications.

Flushing can be done in two ways:

• Self- - procedure is ineffective, often used at home.
• Vacuum washes - carried out with the help of special equipment in the clinic, has high efficacy in the treatment of the disease.

Flushing and gargling with tonsillitis

Should I remove tonsils in chronic tonsillitis?

Frequent tonsillitis leads to the fact that a person acquires chronic tonsillitis. Many people are frightened by the fact that it requires the mandatory removal of glands. But, any doctor will say that there are no superfluous organs in the human body and therefore their removal can contribute to finding negative consequences.

When to remove tonsils:

• If a person is constantly sick with tonsillitis and this occurs more often than four times a year.
• If pathological processes occur that affect the internal organs.
• If the abscess and inflammation goes beyond the boundaries of the glands
• If from the treatment of tonsillitis there is no effect

Removal of the tonsils

Removal of the tonsils in chronic tonsillitis: the effects of

The tonsils are the tissue entering the lymphoid ring of the throat. They are needed in order to detain the infection, which can enter the human body with food or air. If the human immunity is weakened, this organ ceases to perform its functions, the tonsils become inflamed, the development of the disease begins.

Increased tonsils make breathing difficult. Because of them, a person can snort loudly at night. The inflammatory process takes place with with fever, general malaise, sore throat.

It is believed that tonsils are generally not needed for an adult person and they function actively only up to the age of five. That is why they are removed for children aged three to five years.

However, it is impossible to take this decision on your own. Only the ENT doctor should speak about the necessity of the procedure, relying on the patient's clinical card. It is he who determines the need for partial or complete removal of the tonsils.

The removal of tonsils has its advantages:

• The complications of inflammation affecting the internal organs disappear
• The person does not "grasp" angina
• The source of infections no longer bothers the person
• The process of full swallowing is restored

The removal of tonsils has its drawbacks:

• The operation may fail, which will lead toheavy bleeding.
• Lymphoid tissue can re-grow
• Instead of sore throat, a person can often suffer from diseases of the internal respiratory tract.

Surgical removal of tonsils

Do I need Physiotherapy for tonsillitis?

IMPORTANT: Physiotherapy is very useful in the treatment of tonsillitis, as it can increase the effectiveness of antibiotic treatment.

Types of physiotherapy for tonsillitis:

• UHF - therapy removes puffiness of lymphoid tissue
• Ultrasound - reduces inflammation in the tonsils.
• Ultraviolet - sanitizes the tonsils, killing the infection.
• Laser - reduces puffiness, sanitizes tonsils

Any of these procedures should be prescribed only by a professional doctor. The course of physiotherapy can last from ten to fourteen sessions. To go through physiotherapy for people suffering from chronic tonsillitis is recommended at least once a year.

Therapy does not completely cure the disease, but it improves well-being and reduces the number of relapses.

Physiotherapeutic treatment of tonsillitis

Is it possible to warm my throat with tonsillitis, go to the bath?

• In the treatment of tonsillitis it is important to know that itself tonsils should not be warmed up. This can contribute to the development of the inflammatory process even more.
• Do not heat the throat of , if a person has a sore throat and sore throat is very pronounced.
• Not favorable on tonsillitis can affect and trek into the bath .Especially if there is a possibility of an increased temperature in the body. Bath in this case will be able to "catch up" with it even more.
• Do not allow to subcool after staying in a hot bath, bath or shower.
• You can not drink scalding tea, it should be warm enough. To warm the throat is best from the outside of the , wrapping it in a scarf.

How to treat a throat?

What can not be eaten with chronic tonsillitis?

If a person suffers from chronic tonsillitis, he should adhere to a certain diet of food , calculated for people suffering from inflammatory diseases. To eat should only warm dishes, to exclude cold food.

Nutrition for tonsillitis should be saturated with vitamins ( in particular, vitamins B, R and C).You should also choose products that reduce the allergic reaction of and can reduce the inflammatory process. Food should have a large amount of fats and proteins .But, you should reduce the amount of salt entering the body so that it does not retain moisture.

Due to the fact that tonsillitis gives a complication on the throat, the food should not be rough. It is best to eat soups and mashed potatoes, which facilitates swallowing. In addition, the patient should drink a lot of liquid( not cold!), Which can increase sweating, and therefore - reduce the temperature and remove toxins from the body.

Tonsillitis smell from the mouth: how to fight, how to get rid?

The tonsils have a peculiar porosity. The depressions that are present on their surface serve as distinctive "traps" capable of catching harmful microorganisms from . In addition to microbes, microparticles of food rot in these grooves, decaying with time.

How to get rid of bad breath from tonsillitis:

• Regularly clean teeth and mouth from bacteria
• Clean the tonsils with a sterile cloth moistened with a special solution or ointment.
• Gargle twice a day. You can do this, both with special medicinal solutions, and with ordinary warm water and salt.

How to get rid of bad breath from tonsillitis?

Tonsillitis tests: what should I take?

To determine the effective treatment for tonsillitis the complete clinical picture of the disease will help, for which it is necessary to pass all the important tests:

• Smear of the surface of the tonsils - the analysis will help to determine the bacterium-causative agent.
• A blood test will help determine the nature of an infectious disease.
• Cytological smear will allow to study the intensity of the disease.
• Urine analysis will reveal the toxic and allergic features of the tonsillitis-affected organism.

How to cure tonsillitis once and for all?

Unfortunately, it is impossible to cure completely chronic tonsillitis. It can only be prevented. To do this, you should regularly monitor your health, exclude colds and hypothermia, getting the virus into the body.

You can treat only an acute form of tonsillitis by resorting to antibiotics and physiotherapy procedures.

How to temper the throat in chronic tonsillitis?

In order for the body to learn to resist certain diseases, it can be hardened. This should be done very carefully, so as not to incur even greater problems.

How to Temper the Throat:

• Water. This happens in the form of rinses, in which the water temperature drops from 26 degrees to 2 degrees and again grows to 8 degrees.
• Contrast rinsing with water ( warm, cold).It should be borne in mind that such rinses are very harmful to the teeth.
• Degradation of the ice cube .To do this, keep the cube in your mouth for 10-15 seconds for three to four days to a row.
• Incineration of feet in water with temperature up to 1 degree for 30 seconds per day.

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