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Sore throat is a common disease at the time of season change. Due to many reasons, children often have recurrent sore throat. This is quite dangerous because it can lead to chronic pharyngitis, causing many health consequences for children.
1. Overview of sore throat in children
Pharyngitis includes two types of diseases: acute pharyngitis and chronic pharyngitis. Specifically:
Acute pharyngitis: A fairly common disease, occurring all year round, but most commonly at the time of season change. The cause of the disease is usually bacteria (streptococcal, staph, pneumococcal, ...) or by influenza virus, measles, Adenovirus,... In addition, factors such as changes in weather, dust, smoke, etc. drugs, ... also increase the risk of acute pharyngitis in children;
Chronic pharyngitis : This is a persistent inflammation of the throat mucosa. In the chronic stage, the symptoms of the disease have a slow onset but persist and recur many times. Chronic pharyngitis is easy to recur and difficult to completely cure. The disease mainly occurs due to the influence of some respiratory diseases, exposure to allergens, abnormal anatomy of the nose - sinuses,...
2. Why do children often get sore throats again and again?
The condition of children with recurrent sore throat can be caused by a number of reasons such as:
2.1 Incomplete treatment of acute pharyngitis
This is the main reason why children's diseases often recur, and at the same time makes acute pharyngitis easy to progress to chronic or cause complications such as sinusitis, bronchitis, acute otitis media,...
So how to assess that the child has been completely cured of acute pharyngitis, thereby stopping the drug in a timely and reasonable manner, avoiding drug-resistant bacteria or viruses? The best way is for parents to take the child back to the doctor who examined and prescribed treatment so that the doctor can assess whether the baby's actual condition is good, if there are any nasopharyngeal lesions, if any. then continue processing. If it is not convenient to take the child to the doctor, parents should closely monitor the child's symptoms, stop taking the medicine only after the child has stopped all symptoms (runny nose, cough, fever, sore throat, earache, .. .) at least 2 days.
2.2 Allergic factors
Children often have recurrent sore throats, possibly due to allergic factors. This is a disease with a family history. In addition, a number of factors also increase the risk of recurrent sore throat in children are: Change of weather, polluted living environment, proximity to industrial zones,...
Trẻ hay bị viêm họng tái đi tái lại có thể do yếu tố dị ứng
2.3 There are too many strains of viruses and bacteria that cause sore throats
Another reason why children often get sore throats is because there are too many strains of viruses that cause the disease. According to statistics, about 60-80% of nasopharyngitis cases are caused by viruses. Scientists have discovered up to 200 different strains of viruses and bacteria that cause nasopharyngitis.
Therefore, a child can have just contracted this virus, then be cured and then be infected with another virus right at the time when the body's resistance is reduced after the previous infection. In some other cases, children have pharyngitis caused by bacteria (pneumococcal, staphylococci, group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus,...). Sometimes, children have a sore throat caused by a fungus (when the resistance is weak).
Therefore, if children have recurrent sore throat due to these causes, parents can give children vaccines to prevent bacteria and viruses according to the doctor's instructions.
2.4 Contagion
Children who often have recurrent sore throats can also be because they live with sick family members, cross-infection from one person to another. In particular, the habit of many families is that when someone is sick, they often close the door to avoid wind for the sick person, making the pathogen even more contagious.
Therefore, in the case of a family member who has a sore throat, it is important to pay attention to circulate the air in the room and maintain general hygiene (but avoid letting the sick person lie in a drafty place). In addition, it is necessary to thoroughly treat nasopharyngitis for the whole family, and at the same time improve everyone's health to have the strength to fight the disease.
2.5 Other causes
In addition to the above causes, recurrent sore throat in children can also come from:
Bad habits: Parents let their children go outside after 8 pm, so they are easy to catch a cold or go to crowded places, so they are easy to catch a cold. infection from another person; Effects of Chronic Sinusitis: Chronic sinusitis causes secretions to flow down the throat. Viruses and bacteria in secretions cause chronic inflammation in the oropharynx; Abnormalities in nasal structure: A deformity of the nasal septum can cause abnormalities in the circulation of secretions, causing the fluid to flow back to the back of the throat wall, causing recurrent pharyngitis in children.
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3. Children often have sore throat, what to do?
Prevention is very important for the baby to avoid using too much medicine when the organs in the body are not fully developed. To minimize the risk of recurrent sore throat in children, parents should pay attention to:
Clean children's teeth, nose and throat regularly every day. Children should practice brushing their teeth after eating, before and after waking up. Children should gargle with salt water every day; Children who often have sore throats should bathe with warm water (in all weather conditions). After bathing, you should dry your body before putting on clean clothes. At the same time, do not allow children to sit in front of a fan or in an air-conditioned room after taking a bath; When a child has a sore throat, the child should be taken to an ear - nose - throat specialist right away to quickly identify the disease and treat it early from the first days; Can be used in combination with a number of home remedies such as: Alum sugar jam, mint tea, ... to relieve cough, itchy throat; Limit children's exposure to factors that cause nasopharyngeal irritation such as pollen, tobacco, chemicals,...; Improve the baby's immune system by improving nutrition, supplementing with vitamin C, zinc,... as directed by the doctor; Clean your home regularly to reduce mold and allergens; Parents should not arbitrarily diagnose the disease, use medicine for children according to old prescriptions or buy drugs for treatment by themselves, but need to strictly follow the doctor's instructions. To avoid the risk of children having recurrent sore throats leading to chronic pharyngitis, as soon as the child has unusual symptoms, parents should take the initiative to take the child to the doctor immediately. At the same time, parents should pay attention to preventing the risk of re-infection with sore throat for children according to the above instructions so that the baby is always healthy and develops well.
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