Acute and chronic tonsillitis in children and adults: signs, symptoms, causes, treatment, prevention. How to treat acute and chronic tonsillitis in children and adults with antibiotics, tablets, drugs, drugs and folk remedies at home?

The article gives recommendations on how to treat tonsillitis in children and adults.

Tonsillitis is a damage to the palatine tonsils that causes a bacterial or viral infection. The article will talk about this infectious disease, the main symptom of which is sore throat.

What are the varieties of the disease, how it is classified according to ICD-10, how to treat it to different age categories of patients and what cannot be done.

This material is only the general information necessary for familiarization. And any independent treatment is unacceptable without prior consultation with a doctor.

Viral, bacterial, herpetic, purulent, allergic, fungal, acute tonsillitis MKB 10: symptoms, signs, causes, treatment in adults and children

The term “tonsillitis” is called various infections of the tonsils - small, oval fabric shape located on both sides of the back of the throat. The tonsils, as an integral immune system, prevent the penetration of microorganisms into the body through the oral cavity.

However, the tonsils themselves are subjected to viral and bacteriological attacks. As soon as this happens, a person feels malaise for several days.

• If the infection penetrates beyond the tonsils, then the development of sinusitis, runny nose, bronchitis is possible. Tonsillitis can be picked up from a sick person, because the disease is considered contagious.
• The cause of tonsillitis is streptococcal bacteria. They can cause pain in the throat without affecting the tonsils.
• Special tests help to find out whether bacteria or viruses caused a disease. Symptoms of both the disease are identical.

By what signs to determine the development of tonsillitis?

• the patient is constantly worried about sore throat
• when visual examination of the tonsils and throat are red
• the patient is worried about hoarse
• if a child is sick, then it is difficult for his parents to feed him
• the patient complains of pain when swallowing
• a fever may begin
• eye proteins turn red
• the patient is disturbed by headache, there is a severe weakness
• the stomach hurts due to the edema of the lymph nodes in the peritoneum area
• the patient may begin to start coughing and rhinitis
• the patient increases the cervical lymph nodes
• tonsils can be covered with white spots
• the ear pain caused by those located
• in the throat nervous endings going to the ear

Other signs:

• the patient may begin vomiting
• constipation is possible
• a plaque may appear on the tongue
• the appearance of a "rotten" smell is possible from the mouth

Bacterial tonsillitis

• The disease is caused by streptococcal bacteria of group A. manifests itself in an acute or chronic form. Nowadays, vaccination and improved treatment are not a trigger for diseases such as diphtheria and rheumatic fever, as it was in the past.
• It is possible to get tonsillitis as a cold or flu, when one of a million tiny drops during the cough or sneezing of an infected person enters the respiratory tract.
• Bacterial tonsillitis is also transmitted through touching the place of such a drop if a person later touches his hand to his face.
• Bacterial tonsillitis with a penicillin group is treated. Those who are allergic to penicillin are prescribed erythromycin.

It is important to remember: self -medication in the event of a disease of tonsillitis is unacceptable! All drugs are taken only as prescribed by a doctor.

Treatment lasts 10-14 days.

Viral tonsillitis

The transmission of viral tonsillitis from a patient to a healthy person occurs through such microorganisms:

• through viruses that cause a cold
• through viruses that cause flu
• paragripp viruses (laryngitis and cereals develop from these viruses)
• causing diseases of the arms, legs, oral cavity
• enteroviruses
• adenoviruses that cause diarrhea
• corey virus
• through the Epstein-Barr virus, causing inflammation of the tonsils (the disease is very difficult, but is very rare)

Treatment of viral tonsillitis

• Ibuprofen and paracetamol relieve pain and fever. Take drugs strictly according to the instructions indicated on the packaging. Otherwise, the effect may be insignificant or harm the patient with a large dose.
• Ibuprofen is not prescribed to patients suffering from indigestion, stomach ulcer, if the patient is diagnosed with kidney or asthma disease.
• Pregnant women are also not recommended to take ibuprofen.
• Different lozenges and sprays have a soft calming effect on the unpleasant sensations in the throat.

Quinsy

Such a disease as purulent tonsillitis must be treated. It develops as an exacerbation of non -specific inflammation of the tonsils of the sky. Can flow against the background of pharyngitis. Children and young people under 20 are sick more often.

The following pathogenic microorganisms can be the cause of purulent tonsillitis:

• Beta-hemolytic streptococci
• Pneumococci
• flu sticks

The activation of pathogenic microflora occurs in the tonsils during the weakening of immunity. Weakening causes fatigue, colds. The pathogens instantly respond with reproduction, from which the disease begins.

Purulent tonsillitis manifests itself:

• sore throat
• pain when swallowing (irradiation in the ear is possible)
• chills
• increasing body temperature to 37.5-380
• the patient may swell tonsils
• during visual examination, purulent spots are noticeable

This condition can cause an abscess of palatine tonsils.

Fungal tonsillitis

Symptoms of fungal tonsillitis in adults:

• thirst intensifies
• the patient has no appetite
• improving body temperature
• strong head and muscle pain begin to bother
• nausea and vomiting may begin (fungal plaque enhances the gag reflex, annoying the nerve endings)
• the patient sweats a lot
• the patient feels a foreign body in the larynx

Clinical picture and symptoms of fungal tonsillitis in young children:

• the child becomes tearful, irritable
• sleeps badly
• does not play
• often groans and refuses the chest
• during visual examination, curdled
• a raid in the throat

Allergic tonsillitis

The reasons:

• allergens getting into the body along with food products (allergic anaphylaxis triggers are found in mollusks, drugs, insect bites)
• allergic reaction to pollen
• hay fever

Symptoms of toxic-allergic tonsillitis

• swell and blush the tonsils
• the patient feels pain when swallowing
• it is difficult for the patient to breathe
• the smell appears from the mouth
• the tonsils are covered with white spots or gray raid
• the patient is in a fever
• the lymph nodes increase
• the allergic reaction of the body is also manifested (the patient is quickly tired, head and muscle pain begin to bother, joints and heart are painful)

Treatment of allergic tonsillitis:

• definition of an allergen
• elimination or minimize contacts with allergen
• antibiotic therapy
• local procedures with chlorophyllipt, which is prescribed for throat rinses
• allergies injections

What medicines help to control allergic tonsillitis?

• Antihistamines
• Anti -traffic drugs that are released according to the recipe
• Nazal sprays

The cause of herpetic tonsillitis is enteroviruses that spread inside the gastrointestinal tract. Autumn and summer are the most favorable periods for the development of the virus.

Infection occurs by airborne droplets or along with food (through dirty hands and food, water, after contact with pets).

Clinical picture and symptoms of herpetic tonsillitis:

• painful sensations in the throat, in the neck, under the earlobe, under the lower jaw
  • salivation
  • Strong runny nose
  • The temperature rises to 39-40 ° C
  • The lymph nodes are increasing
  • The appetite disappears
  • The patient feels weak
  • Vesicular rash may appear

How to treat herpetic tonsillitis in a child:

• Treatment of herpetic tonsillitis prolonged. The room in which the child is located is often cleaned, ventilated and moistened.
• The patient needs peace and good nutrition. It should be provided by a child with plentiful drink.
• During treatment, the patient cannot be given rough food, salty, spicy or acidic.
• Everything that is eaten must be washed and thermally processed. Thanks to this diet, the patient will less disturb the sore throat, and his condition is gradually normalized.

Parents should know that herpetic sore throat is treated on an outpatient basis. Doctors prescribe:

• pathogenetic therapy
• symptomatic therapy

After the detection of herpetic sore throat, the pediatrician prescribes antiviral drugs to the child. To determine how many of them are needed and which are the task of the doctor in each case.

Most drugs for the treatment of tonsillitis can have serious side effects. The danger is also an overdose.

It is impossible to treat angina without antiseptics and antihistamines. Such drugs are prescribed:

• miramistin
• furatsilin
• clarin
• diazolin
• aleron
• tavegil

The doctor can also prescribe drugs that strengthen the immune system:

• immunal
• imodon

With regular repetition of tonsillitis attacks, the attending physician can recommend a radical treatment method: removal of tonsils. There are several ways tonsillectomy:

• surgical instruments using a surgical blade
• diameter With the help of a special probe creating heat from electric current, due to which the tissues are destroyed by the tonsils and the tonsils themselves
• "Cold" ablation using a low temperature (less painful method)

Treatment of tonsillitis in a small child (up to 2 years old):

• you can determine the tonsillitis in the baby by strong salivation
• acetaminophen or ibupen will help from heat and pain
  You can offer the baby soft products (bananas or pudding)
• let's get more fluid

Epstein-Barr virus, dangerous not only in that causes mononucleosis, but also possible oncological consequences

Cough with tonsillitis: how to treat in children and adults?

• With the help of cough, the body cleanses the respiratory tract of wet and foreign bodies. A cough can be a pathological character, being a sign of a disease. Or appear occasionally if necessary to clean the lungs.
• Let's talk about the first - a more serious symptom. With a cough with tonsillitis, it is necessary to fight. And we have to find out what ways and how to do it.
• Even in severe tonsillitis, high body temperature (up to 38-39) and acute sore throat there is usually no severe cough. Only a sore throat appears, from which coughing at night may appear.

Strong cough with tonsillitis indicates a complication of the course of the disease. This means that the respiratory organs that are located next to the tutorials were defeated.
The disease proceeds against the background other diseases:

• plot inflammation
• inflammation of the larynx
• inflammation of tracts, bronchi
• inflammation of the nasal mucosa is also

How to treat a cough with tonsillitis?

• Antitratus drugs: levopront, libexin (with their help, coughing at the level of receptors is blocked)
  • Sedotussin, gland (have an effect on the cough center in the brain)
  • Broncholytin, stoptussin (act combined)
  • Bromhexin, Ambroxol, ACC, Mukoben (synthetic drugs)
  • Bronchocin, Pectusin, Doctor MOM (based on plants)

How to use Furatsilin, Miramistin, Amoxicillin, Lugol, Chlorophyllipt, Biseptol, Lizobakt with tonsillitis to children and adults?

Lubrication of tonsils with tonsillitis (tonsillitis) with drugs contributes to a speedy recovery.

The following means are used to lubricate the tonsils:
• Lugol
• Miramistin
• Chlorhexidine
• Furatsilin
• Chlorophyllipt

In folk medicine they are common such funds:

• Aloe juice with the addition of natural honey
• squeezed garlic juice
• Black radish juice mixed with natural honey

How to lubricate the tonsils?

In order to moisten the tonsils with a medicine, it is necessary to moisten a cotton swab or a cotton swab in it. Lubricating the tonsils is not very pleasant, but this is one of the effective methods. Repeat the procedure 2-3 times during the day.

You can use the same preparations for spraying the throat or absorb antiseptic tablets.

How to use furatsilin for tonsillitis?

• Furatsilin tablets of 0.01 and 0.02 g must be crushed into powder. After that, pour liquid in an amount of 200 ml.
  For 1000 ml of water, you will need 5 tablets of 0.02 g or 10 - 0.01 g.
• Water is recommended to use distilled. If this is not, then the usual is suitable, but it must be filtered and boiled. Heat water to dissolve the furatsilin powder to a temperature of 40-50 degrees.
• The solution is mixed until all the crystals dissolve. The finished solution is filtered through gauze (it is extremely not desirable to enter the mucous membrane).
• A solution for throat rinses is used. Before the procedure, it is recommended to rinse the throat with a solution of soda or ordinary water. This will help to remove an excess of mucus and enhance the effect. The rinse procedure must be assigned at least 3-5 minutes. Repeat 4-6 times a day for 5-6 days.

How do tonsils wash with tonsillitis?

Washing tonsils can be in the following ways:

• using a special syringe with curved cannulas and a dumb needle
• using a vacuum
• using a special irrigator device

Vacuum cleaning tonsils with tonsillitis

The method of vacuum cleansing the tonsils is the most effective. The pathological contents of the tonsils of tonsils are cleaned during the procedure and filled with drugs.

The tonsils in clinics are cleaned with a special apparatus tonsillor. During the procedure, ultrasound, vacuum and medicinal solutions are used. That is why vacuum cleansing contributes to complete aspiration (cleaning) of tonsils from traffic jams, and the use of ultrasound is necessary to improve the regeneration process.

How to rinse the throat with tonsillitis with chronic children and adults?

For the treatment of tonsillitis with rinses, 3-4 procedures will not be enough. It is necessary to rinse the throat half an hour before the appearance of tangible improvements.

In folk medicine, decoctions of herbs are used to rinse the throat:

• chamomile
• calendulas
• horsetail
• mint
• yarrow
• eucalyptus
• raspberry leaves
• dubovaya and Olkhovaya bark

The solutions are used to heated to a temperature of 40-50 degrees. It will not be superfluous to add to the solution for rinsing the periystic kalanchoe or tree -like aloe. From such a composition, the solution acquires an unpleasant bitter taste, because it cannot be swallowed.

How to rinse the throat?

• hydrogen peroxide
• furatsilin
• potassium permanganate
• gramicidin

It is recommended after rinsing a therapeutic drink, for the preparation of which you can use the following plants:

• raspberry
• dry forest berries
• linden color and currant

Homeopathy for tonsillitis

For the prevention of tonsillitis, only comprehensive treatment is effective, which consists of:

• cleansing the tonsils
• improvement of immunity
• hardening
• homeopathy

Homeopathy acts in tandem with other treatment methods, weakening the symptoms and “substituting the shoulder” to the patient.

Chronic tonsillitis is treated with such homeopathic remedies:

• Aconitum or poisonous fighter is recommended at high temperature, strong excitement of the patient and painful thirst.
• APIS (APIS) - honey bee is used for burning and cutting sore throat, very swollen and tonsils enlarged in volume.
• Barita Muriatica - chloride barium is used for inflammation and soreness of tonsils, which gives pain in the ear, suppuration of tonsils and an increase in lymph nodes in the neck.
• Lachesis (Lachesis) - the poison of the Surukuku snake is used to shift the focus of pain on the left side of the throat on the right and the feeling of severe pain when performing a swallowing reflex.
• Beladonna (Belladonna) - Beauty is used in severe heat, painful sensations when swallowing, with severe headache.
• Hepar Sulfur (Hepar Sulfur) - lime sulfur liver - with edema of tonsils, accumulation of purulent traffic jams in gaps.
• Phytolacca-Laconos America is used in the dark red color of the tonsils and swelling of the tonsils.
• Mercurius Solubilis (Mercurius Solubilis) - mercury is used to treat chronic tonsillitis, with severe salivation, and the luggage of the tongue.
• Ferrum phosphoricum (Ferrum Phosphoricum) - iron phosphate is used in the initial phase of the disease: swelling and sore throat.

It is strictly prohibited to use homeopathic preparations. Only a homeopathic doctor will be able to choose the necessary drugs that will eliminate a progressive disease. The doctor will also be able to adjust treatment on time or prescribe another drug.

Inhalation with tonsillitis

Inhalations are carried out after consulting the therapist.
Such inhalations are suitable for adults and children:

Option 1:

Add 8 drops of eucalyptus oil and 4 drops - anise to a kettle with boiling water. The patient is covered with a towel so that he breathes a ferry leaving the nose of the kettle for 15 minutes.

Option 2:

An alkaline mineral water is poured into the kettle (“Borjomi” or “Essentuki No. 4”). After the water boils, it is poured into a container. The patient breathes steam for 10-15 minutes.

Option 3:

A small onion is cut into small pieces, it is warm for 3-4 hours. After that, the onion is grated and placed in a glass. The patient needs to inhale the aroma of onions.

Tonsillitis: Treatment of children and adults folk remedies at home: recipes

A therapeutic drink that relieves exacerbation (can be prepared for young children):
In a glass of hot milk, pour a pinch of turmeric powder and pepper. Drink in the evening before going to bed for 3 days.

The second recipe for therapeutic drink:

Carrot (300 ml), beetroot (100 ml), cucumber juice (100 ml) are mixed and drunk once a day.

Tedical drink based on violet colors:

12 g of violet colors are added to milk (50 ml). The milk is boiled, filtered and after cooling, given to the patient.

Compress from the dried leaves of violet

If you use the dried violet flowers, then they must first be fried in vegetable oil and applied to the neck for the whole night as a compress. But pregnant women are contraindicated in the treatment of chronic tonsillitis.

The folk method of treating tonsillitis with propolis:
It is necessary to mix 1 part of propolis and 10 parts of butter. Take the finished mixture in an amount of 10-15 g three times a day. Use within 2 weeks.

Grassing the throat for children and adults of hydrogen peroxide and sea salt during tonsillitis: recipes

For the treatment of tonsillitis, hydrogen peroxide is used. The drug is used for rinsing.

How to prepare a solution of hydrogen peroxide for rinsing?

Take 150 ml of water and 2 teaspoons of peroxide. Rinse the rinsing procedure 5-6 times a day.

How to rinse a hydrogen peroxide solution?

It is necessary to collect the liquid into the oral cavity and, with a back thrown back, make "seething" sounds. You need to try to get the liquid as far as possible to the tonsils. This will allow cleaning both tonsils and the root of the tongue. Rinse for 2-3 minutes.

After rinsing, do not forget to wash off the peroxide, rinseing your mouth with any grass infusion or water. Repeat the procedure is recommended up to 6 times a day.

Rinse by sea salt

Water heated to 30 degrees (1 cup)
1 teaspoon of table or sea salt
Stir the salt in water and rinse the throat every hour.
A solution for rinsing the throat with salt and soda:

• 250 g of water
• 1ch.L. Salt
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 egg protein

Beat the squirrel. Pour all dry ingredients into warm water, add whipped protein. Gargle
4-5 times a day for 5 days.

Treatment of tonsillitis to children and adult sea buckthorn oil, propolis, ginger: recipes

Sea buckthorn oil is an excellent antitussive.

Tonzillitis treatment agent:

• 1 part of sea buckthorn oil
• 1 part of natural honey
• Take 1 tsp twice a day.

Sea buckthorn oil for inhalations:

It is necessary to boil 1 liter of water, drip into boiling water 2-3 drops of oil. Remove the kettle from the fire and wait until hot steam comes out. After that, the patient is covered with a towel, tilted over the container so that he breathes. The duration of the procedure for the child is 2 minutes, for an adult - 10 minutes.

Sea buckthorn oil to clean the tonsils

A cotton swab or cotton swab is wetted with sea buckthorn oil, and tonsils are lubricated. Repeat the procedure at least 2 times a day.

Using propolis for the treatment of tonsillitis

Method 1:

For treatment, you will need a small piece of propolis, which should be held in the mouth until it completely disappears. Reproopolis treatment repeatedly at least once a day. Repeat the inflammation has not yet passed.

Method 2:

Mix part of the crushed propolis with 1 part of alcohol. The mixture is tightly closed and left for insisting for 5 days in a dark place. Drink the resulting mixture 3 times a day. Drink 20 drops in one dose. After a two -week treatment, a break is shown, lasting 1 week. After that, repeat the treatment twice more.

Method 3 (for children):

1 part of propolis is crushed, melted in 1 part butter. To do this, the mixture is laid out in a water bath. After that, the mixture is mixed and cooled to +37 degrees. 20% honey from the total volume are added to the finished mixture. The mixture must be stored in a glass container in the refrigerator.

Treatment is carried out after thoroughly rinsing the child’s throat. The tool is given to the patient in a small amount (half a teaspoon) three times a day until it resolves in the mouth.

Treatment with ginger tea

For treatment, take a piece of fresh ginger or chopped 1 tsp. dry ginger. Pour 0.5 liters of water. Add 1 clove of garlic and a slice of lemon if desired. After the mixture boils, it is filtered and drunk instead of tea.

How to treat acute and chronic tonsillitis during pregnancy?

Folk methods of treating tonsillitis during pregnancy are the most gentle. But the future mommy should remember that she needs to be treated exclusively by natural means.

It is necessary to relieve inflammation as soon as possible and get rid of the infection that threatens the baby with complications.

Recipe with garlic:

Prepare garlic syrup. To do this, take 40 g of garlic cloves, squeeze the juice and connect with heated syrup. Cooking syrup from 80 g of water and 80 g of sugar, which can be replaced with liquid honey. Take a teaspoon from 4 to 5 times during the day.

Recipe with garlic and milk:

1-2 chopped garlic cloves are thrown into hot milk. Drink the resulting liquid once a day in the amount of 1 teaspoon.

Contraindications for treatment using garlic:

• liver failure
• a tendency to allergies

Recipe with mallow

This tool can be used to treat tonsillitis in both pregnant women and young children.

You will need:

• 30 g of wild mallow
• 30 g of plantain
• 30 g of the root of Altey
• The mixture is crushed and 1 tablespoon is taken, poured with a glass of boiling water. Left for an hour for insisting. Drink 1.2 cups twice a day: morning and evening for 3-5 days.

Tonsillitis prevention: how to temper the throat with chronic tonsillitis to children and adults?

For the prevention of tonsillitis, it is necessary:

• maintain the cleanliness of the oral cavity, nose
• regularly clean the room in which the main part of the time is carried out
• moisturize the air to prevent the nasopharynx to dry out
• maintaining tooth health, gums
• often wash your hands, avoiding bacteria entering the body
• provide proper and balanced meals
  carry out hardening procedures (in the morning to rinse the throat with cool water, in the evenings - make contrasting foot baths)
• take drugs that strengthen immunity (Interferon, IRS-19)
• exclude contacts with people with tonsillitis

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