Acute inflammation of the tonsils is one of the most common conditions encountered in day to day practice. Tonsils are known as the policemen of the throat because they prevent the infection from going down.
It occurs frequently up to the age of 15 years, and both sexes are affected equally.
Predisposing factors
a) Pre existing chronic tonsillitis
b) Pre existing upper respiratory tract infection
c) Postnasal discharge due to sinusitis
d) General lowering of the resistance
e) Taking cold drinks or foods
f). The infection may be contacted from other individuals having infection
c) Pollution and crowded ill ventilated environment
d) Embedded foreign body.
Symptoms
Raw sensation in the throat is the first symptom.
Pain in the throat aggravated by swallowing, and pain may be referred to ear.
The child may refuse to eat to eat-because of odynophagia (painful swallowing)
Voice may be thick and muffled due to thick secretion.
Fever, headache, and tachycardia.
Duration of acute tonsillitis may be 4 to 6 days.
Signs
1) Tonsil becomes congested and swollen.
2) Secretions increase and become tenacious.
3) Movements of the palate become impeded due to pain.
4) Halitosis- Foul breath may be present.
5) Jugulodiagastric lymph nodes may become enlarged and tender.
CHRONIC TONSILLITIS
It is one of the commonest chronic infections characterized by recurrent acute attacks.
Symptoms
1) Recurrent pain in the throat
2) Cough
3) Halitosis due to the cheesy material in the tonsillar crypts.
Signs
1) Appearance
Chronic parenchymatous tonsillitis- characterized by hypertrophied tonsils.
Chronic follicular tonsillitis- where the tonsils are normal or small and fibrotic. There may be yellowish cheesy debris. It often occurs in adult.
2) On squeezing the tonsils pus may ooze out.
3) Retension cyst: seen on the surface of the tonsils. They appear as cystic yellowish swelling containing yellow liquid.
4) Persistent enlarged jugulodigastric lymph nodes.
Complications-
Tonsillar abscess may occur in adult.
Infection may spread to ear causing acute middle ear infection.
The bacteria may invade the heart causing bacterial endocarditis, or may aggravate rheumatism, and acute inflammation of kidney-nephritis.
Treatment
General treatment
In mild case fruit juices and vitamins may help.
Tonsillectomy is the method of choice in chronic tonsillitis in modern medicine.
Homeopathic treatment.
Out of my long years of experience, it is clinically verified that homeopathic treatment is highly effective not only to control the acute infection, but also to prevent the recurrence. In majorly of the cases surgery can be avoided.
And after a few months of treatment, the patient can very well enjoy the ice cream and cold drinks and foods.
The commonly prescribed medicines for acute tonsillitis are merc sol, belladonna, aconite, hepar sulph, silica etc;
Once the acute infection is controlled next aim is to prevent recurrence, for that medicines like psorinum, tuberculinum, syphyllinum etc. are used.
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