Chronic tonsillitis is a common disease accompanied by an inflammatory process that develops in the tonsils. The most common chronic tonsillitis occurs in children under 12 years of age.
The reasons for the development of chronic tonsillitis
This disease develops against the background of acute respiratory diseases caused by viruses, bacteria and fungi that constantly attack the tonsils of a child, who has not yet fully formed the body's defense system. Illiterate antibiotic treatment for colds can also lead to the development of chronic tonsillitis.
The main signs of tonsillitis
The characteristic symptoms allow you to quickly identify the presence of the disease, these are purulent discharge, looseness and enlargement of the tonsils, redness, bad breath, fever, restless sleep, swollen lymph nodes in the neck.
A sick child may feel severe discomfort when swallowing and often have a sore throat.
A child should be seen by a doctor already at the first manifestations of the disease, otherwise all sorts of pathological conditions and complications may begin: sepsis, abscesses and other diseases that can lead to death.
Chronic tonsillitis in children. Treatment
Which treatment will be chosen depends largely on the course of the disease and its form. In this case, the doctor can prescribe conservative treatment (medications, physiotherapy), and in especially difficult cases, surgical treatment is also prescribed.
But conservative treatment can be different, but it is divided into local and general.
General conservative treatment involves the use of immunomodulators, vitamin complexes and drugs with antihistamine action (Suprastin, Tavegil).
As for local conservative treatment, it consists of the introduction of antiseptics and antibiotics into the lacunae of the tonsils. The child may be prescribed regular washing of the tonsils, rinsing with antiseptics and massage of the palatine tonsils.
In conservative local treatment, all kinds of physiotherapy procedures (UFO, microwave, UHF) are also practiced, however, they are used only if there is no exacerbation of chronic tonsillitis.
If an exacerbation of tonsillitis occurs, then the doctor may prescribe certain antihistamines and antibacterial drugs to the child, for example, Ceftriaxone, Cefazolin, Amoxicillin, Ampicillin. During such treatment, the patient should consume at least two liters of water to reduce intoxication and must comply with bed rest.
Tonsillectomy (removal of the tonsils) is prescribed only if all the prescribed conservative methods have not yielded a positive effect. But this method of treatment is prescribed quite rarely and only for certain indications (sepsis, frequent tonsillitis).
