Tonsillitis is easy to recur during season changes and weather changes

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Tonsillitis is one of the common ENT diseases, which can occur at any age. The disease can be caused by a virus or bacteria. Repeated and frequent tonsillitis will turn into chronic tonsillitis. This recurrence is mainly related to the changing weather and the patient's body care as well as the treatment process for acute tonsillitis. How does tonsillitis recur? And what to do to prevent and limit the baby's recurrent tonsillitis?

1. Recurrent tonsillitis

Tonsillitis is an infection of the tonsils in the nasopharynx caused by a virus or bacteria.
Tonsillitis usually has two clinical forms: acute tonsillitis and chronic tonsillitis. Acute episodes of tonsillitis, if not treated promptly, will cause complications in the tonsils with surrounding tissues, and when tonsillitis recurs many times, the disease will progress to chronic tonsillitis lasting many years. Expensive treatment costs continue to affect the quality of life of patients.
Tonsillitis is easy to recur during the change of seasons, changes in weather, when going out in the cold for too long without protection to keep the body warm, especially the throat area.
Clinical manifestations of acute tonsillitis :
More common in children and adolescents. Sudden high fever: this is usually the first symptom at the onset of an acute episode of tonsillitis accompanied by body aches and loss of appetite. A runny nose, runny nose, and stuffy nose are easily confused with the flu. Sore throat, pain increases when swallowing saliva or when eating, swallowing. Some cases have difficulty breathing due to enlarged tonsils, causing compression of organizational areas in the nasopharynx, loud snoring, hoarseness, and temporary loss of voice. Examination of the pharynx shows red nasopharynx, swollen tonsils, redness, there may be pseudomembranous or pus-filled, severe abscesses. Chronic tonsillitis :
Is a condition of tonsillitis that recurs many times due to untreated or improperly treated episodes of acute tonsillitis. Usually occurs in adolescents, adults, and older adults. Chronic tonsillitis is divided into 3 types: fulminant tonsillitis, purulent tonsillitis, and atrophic tonsillitis. Manifestations: When tonsillitis recurs over and over again, it will cause high fever, voice changes, hoarseness or severe loss of voice at first, sore throat, painful swallowing, feeling like There is a foreign body in the throat area, bad breath, cough can produce sputum or pus mixed with blood or necrotic tissue of the tonsils. Examination revealed that the tonsils had pus-filled cavities, in many cases due to too much recurrent inflammation leading to fibrous atrophy or enlarged tonsils. Acute inflammatory episodes of chronic tonsillitis are at risk of high fever, convulsions, pus-filled cavities or throat abscess formation, even severe dehydration, causing cardiovascular collapse and complications. acute ENT infections, systemic infections, potentially life-threatening.

2.Prevention of recurrent tonsillitis

Tonsillitis is treatable, but the recurrence rate is very high. To limit your baby's recurrent tonsillitis, you need to note a few things:
Limit exposure to factors that increase the risk of recurrent tonsillitis such as dust, ice, and alcohol. ..There are many studies that have shown that it is not drinking a lot of ice cold water that causes tonsillitis, but mainly people who use ice a lot leading to tonsillitis is because the ice water has not been cleaned to ensure sterility, contains a lot of water. Bacteria can easily cause tonsillitis. The Medical Association recommends using warm water when you have tonsillitis. The recurrence of tonsillitis is strongly related to the weather, so protecting the body against weather changes is very important in preventing recurrent tonsillitis. In the summer, you should avoid using the air conditioner at low temperature for too long, keeping the body warm, especially the throat area in winter. Regularly clean your nose and throat with physiological saline, brush your teeth at least twice a day, morning and night, after eating. Drink a lot of water, at least 2 liters/day, have a nutritious, scientific and nutritious diet, eat soft foods, make an appointment to eat spicy food.

Thorough treatment of respiratory diseases such as rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis media, stomatitis, etc., must be treated thoroughly to avoid the spread of virus-containing fluids to cause pharyngitis, tonsillitis, and tonsillitis. continuity. In the course of treatment, it is necessary to use antibiotics, pay attention to follow the doctor's instructions, do not abuse antibiotics, which can easily cause drug resistance, which will be difficult for later treatment. increased likelihood of disease recurrence. See a specialist doctor as soon as you see signs of recurrent tonsillitis such as high fever, sore throat, painful swallowing... The tonsils are an organization that protects the body by fighting against pathogens from the outside. outside. Therefore, it can be said that the tonsils are one of the first organs of the body in direct contact with viruses and bacteria. Because of that, the tonsils are easily affected, causing inflammation leading to fever, cough, sore throat, headache... Tonsillitis can be treated stably, but it is easy to recur and often turn to inflammation. Chronic tonsils affect the health of the patient.
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