Three dangers of acute tonsillitis

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Tonsillitis can be divided into acute and chronic. Acute tonsillitis is rapid and harmful. It is easy to make patients have fever, fatigue and other symptoms. What does the harm of that acute tonsillitis have?

Three dangers of acute tonsillitis

First: acute acute tonsillitis is infectious, incubation period is about 3~4 days, the incidence rate is higher in the two seasons of spring and autumn, and more frequently in youth, followed by children, and seldom after 50 years old. The symptoms vary in severity. In the cases caused by virus, the local and systemic symptoms were mild, with tonsil hyperemia and no exudate on the surface. Those caused by bacteria have severe symptoms and acute onset. They may have aversion to cold and high fever. Their body temperature can reach 39-40 ℃. Young children can convulse due to high fever. Pharyngeal pain is obvious, especially when swallowing, and can even radiate to the ear. The course of disease is about 7 days.

Second: chronic acute tonsillitis local more no obvious symptoms, sometimes dry throat, foreign body feeling, itching, often have a history of acute attack. Excessive tonsillar hypertrophy in children can affect breathing and swallowing. If the adenoid is also large, it will cause nasal obstruction and snoring. Due to the absorption of bacteria and toxins in the crypt, it can cause headache, fatigue and low fever.

Third: the pathogen of tonsil, the most likely to make the immune system dysfunction and cause systemic complications. Such as wind damp heat, skin diseases, myocarditis, nephropathy, nephritis, asthma, diabetes, blood diseases and other refractory diseases.

matters needing attention

Repeated inflammation of tonsil is easy to cause local complications of surrounding organs. Such as: pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis, pneumonia; otitis media; rhinitis, sinusitis, lymphadenitis, etc.