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Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the bodies, which are in a throat of the person. It congestions of lymphoid fabric which are responsible for protection of an organism and fight against an infection. Viruses, bacteria and even fungi can cause inflammation.
What is tonsils?
In 1884, the German pathologist Wilhelm von Waldejer-Harz described the system of congestions of lymphatic fabric in a mucous membrane of a throat, which was called a lymphatic ring of Valdeyer over time. This ring passes on the border separating initial departments of digestive and respiratory paths from their further departments.
The absorbing pharyngeal ring consists from:
- Palatal tonsils
- Lingual tonsil
- Pharyngeal tonsil
- Pipe tonsils
- Lymph nodes in a back part of a throat
- Side strips of lymphatic fabric
Thanks to tonsils, the body has an additional protection against microbes. This role is especially important in the first years of life. In process of growing of a tonsil, gradually, disappear.
Palatal tonsils, the biggest on volume. They develop on the 4th month of pre-natal life only in order that by its end to receive a final form. These are equal ellipsoidal formations about 2 cm long and about 1 cm wide. In a form, they remind fruits of an almond tree
Causes of tonsillitis
Viral infections are the reason of the majority of sharp tonsillitis. Usually it is rhinoviruses, coronaviruses and viruses of paraflu. Inflammation of tonsils is often called a tonsillitis. Hippocrates the first used this term for the description of the disease causing a sore throat.
Tonsillitis and tonsillitis – concepts that often confuse. It is worth knowing that stenocardia belongs to inflammation of a throat lymph that is the tonsils. Most often palatal tonsils meet, but inflammation can also affect pharyngeal or lingual tonsils.
Streptococci, in the main Streptococcus pyogenes, usually cause bacterial tonsillitis. But it can also be staphylococcus.
Most often, tonsillitis is a consequence of a so-called cold. But tonsillitis is also promoted by any infections which are nearby. And others:
- Sore nasal bosoms
- Recurrent rhinitis
- curved nasal partition
- Hypertrophy of the third tonsil
These states will contribute more often to the development of infections to complicate free breath through a nose. And the nose is a natural filter which blocks access
of viruses and bacteria to our body.
Tonsillitis symptoms
As patients with tonsillitis is:
- Heat
- Fever
- The increased lymph nodes on a neck
The viral infection is also shown in the form of the general weakness, congestion of a nose and cold. The most unpleasant symptom of tonsillitis – a severe tonsillitis that amplifies when swallowing. Pain can give to an ear.
At sharp states the trizm, that is impossibility to open a mouth can appear. Emergence of a trizm can demonstrate that the peritonzillyarny abscess demanding surgical intervention was formed. This local complication of tonsillitis.
System complications of tonsillitis can also arise at streptococcal infections. You can test rheumatism, myocarditis or glomerulonephritis and even sepsis.
The symptoms indicating tonsillitis should not be ignored, especially in a present situation when access to doctors is complicated. Unfortunately, teleportation does not replace the visit of the doctor. It is not enough to listen to the patient and to appoint to him an antibiotic. Daily practice shows that many patients receiving remote treatment have serious complications, including huge peritonzillyarny abscesses.
Tonsillitis is virus or bacterial.
Sharp tonsillitis proceeds with high temperature and a sore throat. At survey of the patient, the doctor sees that tonsils red and fluffy. Quite often in crypts, purulent allocations appear.
Rapid tests for latex help to diagnose infection type (virus or bacterial). The result turns out in 15 minutes. Dabs too, all the same, do, but it is necessary to wait for results. Therefore, if the clinical picture shows a bacterial infection, the doctor will appoint an antibiotic. After receiving dab from a throat, you know with what bacteria you deal. In such situation, it is possible to pick up a suitable antibiotic. This form of treatment is called address treatment.
Chronic tonsillitis is characterized by lack of strong local symptoms, for example, of strong reddening. Such state can be connected with arthritis at which the allocations, which are flowing down on a throat, irritate a mucous membrane.
The gastroesophageal reflux at which the acid reflux in a gullet causes inflammation of tonsils can be other cause of chronic tonsillitis. The diagnosis is made after careful inspection of the patient, dab from a pharynx and blood test. It is very important because, for example, the asymmetry of tonsils can indicate a cancer disease. The doctor has to be sure that the inflammation reason not in a lymphoma or leukemia.
At chronic tonsillitis, it is also important to remove whenever possible the cause which leads to a state. Therefore, it is necessary to treat nasal bosoms or to control a gastroesophageal reflux.
The constant sore throat, the complicated swallowing, high temperature, increase in lymph nodes – the symptoms indicating streptococcal stenocardia can also be a symptom of an infectious mononukleoz. For production of the correct diagnosis, it is necessary to pass a test for an infectious mononukleoz. It is important because mononukleoz it is treated differently, then a bacterial infection.
Tonsils – to delete or not?
Often recurrent tonsillitis can be the basis for consideration of a possibility of their removal. However, opinions of specialists in this occasion constantly change. Now it is considered that removal of tonsils which are an important part of the immune system needs to be thought over carefully. However, at problems with a cardiac muscle or you glomerulonefrit most experts consider that tonsils should be deleted.
House tonsillitis medicines
Among house means it is recommended to rinse a throat disinfecting herbs, for example, a camomile, a sage or a thyme. In drugstores, lollipops for removal of a sore throat are also on sale. The checked method of relief of symptoms of tonsillitis – cleaning of a throat water solution of a gentian. Also, medicines with chlorhexidiny, the possessing strong disinfecting action are recommended.
It is also important to moisten mucous throats. Properties of medicines with ektoiny – the substance having the anti-inflammatory and moistening properties are that. Well humidified mucous throats has no microinjuries which could become a gate through which bacteria and viruses could get. Also, it is worth using medicines with vitamins A and E because they very well regenerate a mucous membrane of a throat.
