Tonsillitis
Common and common diseases, especially among children Almond disease, a disease of the tonsils because of inflammation by bacteria or a specific virus, and the tonsils are located in the upper throat in the back of the throat and when opening the mouth can be seen
When tonsillitis causes severe pain in the tonsils and throat, difficulty in eating or drinking, and high body temperature, when delayed treatment may cause almonds to feel pain in the joints or rheumatism, and change of voice, abdominal pain, vomiting , And may also be accompanied by swelling of the lymph nodes, headache, lack of appetite or acute inflammation of the kidneys.
Treatment of tonsillitis
- The treatment of almonds, especially in children, may be affected by dehydration because the child is unable to eat and the intestinal tract is blocked.
- The treatment is given by the patient to an antibiotic prescribed by the doctor such as penicillin or ampicillin, or taking an intramuscular needle from the antibiotic, and as an antihypertensive is taken, the patient must be completely rested, not to drink cold drinks that make it worse, eat warm soup and get away About smoking and smokers.
- In most cases, tonsillitis is removed in the case of recurrent inflammation 3 to 4 times a year. In frequent tonsillitis, this causes foul odors from the mouth and an enlargement of the almonds, causing problems in the growth of the teeth, jaw and otitis media. If there is a suspicion of a tumor or inflammation of the lymph nodes, and the presence of abscess around the almonds frequently or the presence of inflammation in one of the almonds and tumor more than the other.
- Do not delay the treatment of almonds as we mentioned so as not to make matters worse, and they can not be eradicated without reason; many people are removing almonds without any reason to do so, and may be due to their desire to change their voice, They remove it to change their voice and make it less rough, or because of pain intolerance when the tonsillitis is simple, and unwilling to enter the hospital.
The tonsils may become inflamed due to otitis media, which causes severe pain. There are many other reasons, but doctors advise not to remove the tonsils unless it is urgent and calls for it.