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Tonsillitis is a common disease in children's ears, nose and throat, but adults are still susceptible to the disease but at a lower rate. Tonsillitis often recurs many times, easily causing complications and affecting the patient's health, ability to work and study.
1. How many types of tonsillitis?
The tonsils are one of the organs of the body's immune system, this is a structure similar to meat but in fact the lymph nodes are located on 2 sides at the back of the throat and work to block the invasion of bacteria. bacteria. The tonsils are active from the age of 4 to 10 years old, then when they reach puberty, the level of immunity of the tonsils will gradually decrease.
The origin of tonsillitis is usually a bacterial or viral infection that overloads the tonsils, causing the tonsils to swell and become inflamed. If the tonsils are inflamed again and again, the ability to fight bacteria is weak, which will be the starting point for other episodes of throat inflammation. Tonsillitis accounts for a high rate in children over 5 years old, usually caused by bacteria, tonsillitis has many dangerous complications if not treated properly.
There are 2 common types of tonsillitis:
Acute tonsillitis Chronic tonsillitis : the disease lasts longer than acute inflammation.
2. Symptoms of tonsillitis
Tonsillitis is a common disease in children in the cold season. However, the symptoms of tonsillitis are easy to coincide with common respiratory diseases such as: symptoms of pharyngitis, nasopharyngitis, so it is easy to confuse.
2.1 Acute tonsillitis The child has a sudden fever with a temperature of 38 to 39 degrees Celsius, especially fever with signs of chills. When the fever is over 39.5 degrees Celsius, you need to go to the hospital immediately. Manifestations of fatigue, headache, poor appetite, loss of appetite or refusal to breastfeed. Less urine, dark urine, constipation. Dryness, burning, heat in the throat, followed by a sore throat, possibly throbbing up to the ear, pain that increases with swallowing and coughing. May be accompanied by rhinitis, runny nose, wheezing, snoring, talking in a nasal voice. If the tonsillitis spreads down the larynx, the windpipe will cause a cough with phlegm. Light examination shows swollen and red tonsils, sometimes the surface of the tonsils has pus as white dots, gradually turning into a layer of white pus on the surface of the tonsils, smelly breath. 2.2 Chronic tonsillitis Mild fever or tonsillitis without fever, no chills, no chills but very often low-grade fever, fever in the afternoon (to be distinguished from tuberculosis, which also causes fever in the afternoon). General emaciation, pale skin, cold to the touch, Feeling of swallowing stuck in the throat. Cough that lasts for a long time and often coughs a lot in the morning when you first wake up A sore throat often causes voice changes Bad breath - a typical symptom of chronic tonsillitis, even with good oral hygiene every day Day after day, the breath still has an unpleasant odor. Children wheeze, snore loudly, which can cause sleep apnea in young children.
3. How many days does a child with tonsillitis usually have a fever?
Depending on the type of tonsillitis as well as the stage of the disease of each person, tonsillitis will have different symptoms. Some children have a high fever, some have only a mild fever, but besides that, there are also children with tonsillitis without fever.
To be able to confirm exactly how many days the tonsillitis will go away is very difficult. A statistical estimate of doctors is that on average, tonsillitis will cause a fever from 1 to 4 days. About 70% of patients will have no fever in about 3-4 days with correct and timely treatment.
On the contrary, if not treated or treated in the wrong way, the disease will easily recur, the fever will last long or the fever will disappear and then the fever will return... gradually leading to chronic tonsillitis. The duration of an acute illness usually lasts from 7 to 10 days.
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