Tonsillitis - symptoms and treatment in children

Common symptoms include worsening appetite, dizziness and headaches, discomfort during swallowing, communication, breathing, hyperthermia and fever, "shooting" in the ears, weakness and loss of strength, purulent smell from the mouth, swelling of the lymph nodes.In individual cases, tonsillitis can cause problems with the digestive system, vomiting and nausea, resi and colic in the stomach.

Swelling of the lymph nodes is one of the signs of tonsillitis in children.

Diagnosis and treatment of tonsillitis in a child is performed at a doctor-therapist or otolaryngologist.The doctor listens to the complaints of a small patient, collects an anamnesis, performs a visual examination of the baby and his throat, tonsils in particular.Mandatory palpation of lymph nodes on the neck, measurement of body temperature, pharyngoscopy are also performed.

In addition, some tests( urine, blood, buckoche from the pharynx to the flora) are prescribed.

Sometimes, differential diagnosis may be necessary to exclude other diseases( nasopharynx and sinuses, chronic pharyngitis, tuberculosis of glands and others).In this case, the doctors will prescribe additional studies: an echocardiogram, a kidney ultrasound, a tuberculin test, an ECG, an x-ray of the nasal sinuses, and a blood culture for sterility.

Treatment of the disease with conservative methods

Many parents ask how to cure chronic tonsillitis in a child, treatment is safe at home with rinses, warmers and applications.

The chronic form is treatable at the level of symptoms, but the predisposition to tonsillitis remains.Any weakening of immunity, hypothermia, or a common cold can provoke a relapse of the disease and this should be prepared.Home medicine helps to alleviate some of the symptoms, but does not affect the pathogens of the disease properly, so you simply delay appropriate treatment and increase the risk of complications. "

Let's consider how the conservative treatment of chronic and acute tonsillitis occurs in children, what drugs and procedures are prescribed.

Typically, treatment for tonsillitis lasts about a week

So, first of all, therapy will depend on the causative agent of the disease and other favorable reasons for its development.Typically, the treatment lasts about a week, during which the child must comply with bed rest, drink plenty of vitaminized juices and warm tea , observe a sparing diet, which excludes fatty, heavy, spicy, fried and too acidic food.Do not allow the child to refuse food and liquids, otherwise dehydration of the body and the appearance of new accompanying symptoms may occur: general weakness, dizziness and pain, aching muscles, exhaustion, digestive problems.

Local treatment of the disease is based on the elimination or alleviation of symptoms.The folds of the glands should be washed with antiseptic solutions( chlorophyllipt, iodinol, weak manganese solution, hydrochloric soda, furatsillin and others).It is also necessary to apply on the back of the throat and glands cauterizing and healing preparations( fukortsin, lyugol).

Do not interfere with some recipes of home medicine, for example, gargling with a saline solution, herbal decoctions.You can also make inhalation on herbs, use antimicrobial sprays( inhalipt).

. Even ordinary tablets with antimicrobial effect can be a positive effect, which the child should dissolve several times a day after eating( septothete, pharyngocept and others).

Sometimes tonsillitis in a child( photo below) can be treated with the help of physiotherapy: laser, microwave, UHF, ultraphonophoresis and others.

When using prescription medications, it is important to observe the dose according to the age and weight of the baby.

Physiotherapy for tonsillitis

Antibiotics are prescribed extremely rarely and in neglected cases, since they can cause a number of negative effects.The duration of therapy with penicillin or erythromycin is strictly 10 days, even if relief came earlier.

In severe cases, baby angina is taken to a hospital, as a rule, this happens in the absence of a positive reaction to oral antibiotics.Then the doctor can prescribe intravenous administration.

In today's world, rarely resort to at least treatment of tonsillitis - tonsillectomy( removal of glands).

Indications for surgery can be the following:

• drug therapy did not work;
• the disease recurs at least 5 times a year;
• disease during relapses is accompanied by the same symptoms;
• disease caused complications in the body as a whole, its internal systems, intoxication occurred;
• a parathonsillar abscess occurred.

Removal of tonsils occurs with the help of a scalpel or modern alternative techniques( laser, radio wave, ultrasound therapy, electrocoagulation, etc.).

In case of untimely or ineffective treatment, complications of tonsillitis are possible: otitis( in preschool children), sinusitis, rheumatism, glomerulonephritis, postoperative consequences( sudden weight gain, internal bleeding, otitis).

Prevention of disease

We examined how and how to treat tonsillitis in children. However, this ailment can be avoided by following basic hygiene and hygiene requirements:

If the basic hygiene and sanitary requirements are met, tonsillitis

• can be avoided in children during the epidemic;
• do not allow contact with a sick person;
• regularly wash hands after street, toilet, before eating;
• exclude the ingress of objects, toys, utensils after ill children;
• teach your child to always cover his mouth during coughing and sneezing, blow his nose in a handkerchief;
• passive smoking next to the baby reduces its immunity;
• observe a nutritious and vitaminized diet, especially during epidemics and seasonal outbreaks of colds.