What to do if your baby has swollen tonsils

It is a very troublesome thing when children are sick. In daily life, babies cannot avoid the invasion of various diseases due to their low immunity. Only when the baby's immunity is improved can he resist disease. Tonsils are important immune organs.

It is the first line of defense against invading pathogens. The cause of swollen tonsils is repeated inflammation of the tonsils. The weather turns cooler after the Beginning of Autumn, and babies often get tonsil infections and inflammations after playing too much, which worries many parents.

So what should you do if your baby has swollen tonsils?

Tonsils are one of the lymph nodes in the human body. Swollen tonsils are caused by tonsillitis. The treatment of swollen tonsils should first start with the treatment of tonsillitis, which is the human immune organ.

If you have swollen tonsils, you should pay more attention to eating light food, avoid spicy food and seafood, eat more fruits and supplement vitamin C. In severe cases, it will cause ulceration, fever, and pain, which will affect your normal diet.

If the symptoms are mild, conservative treatment is recommended. Vitamin C Yinqiao tablets can be used to treat acute tonsil enlargement. Antibiotics can also be used for treatment for 1 to 3 days, or antiviral oral liquids, Shuanghuanglian decoctions and other medicines can be taken.

If you want to remove it completely, you need to do a tonsillectomy. Tonsils play an important protective role in the body. Resection may affect immune function, and the adaptability of surgery should be strictly controlled.

There are several folk remedies for swollen tonsils:

1. Gargle

Use appropriate amounts of honeysuckle, licorice, platycodon, or appropriate amounts of schizonepeta and chrysanthemum to boil water and gargle with it several times a day.

2. Blowing medicine

You can choose Chinese herbal powder that clears away heat, detoxifies, relieves sore throat and reduces swelling and blow it into the affected area several times a day.

3. Sublingual

You can take Chinese medicine lozenges or pills that clear heat, detoxify and relieve throat pain.

4. Nebulizer inhalation

Boil Chinese herbal medicines that clear heat, detoxify and relieve sore throat in water, and inhale it through atomization, 1 to 2 times a day.

5. Branding

For patients with enlarged laryngeal nucleus or recurrent attacks, cautery can be used (see "Overview of Treatment of Laryngeal Diseases"). Cauterization is prohibited during acute attacks, and surgical removal is performed when necessary.

6. Pecking therapy

Use a three-edged needle or tonsil surgical machete to do pecking movements on the tonsils, 4 to 5 times on each side, accompanied by a small amount of bleeding, and stop when you spit out 2 to 3 mouthfuls of blood. Once every 2 to 3 days, 5 times as a course of treatment, generally no more than 3 courses of treatment.

1. Body Acupuncture

For syndrome of excess heat, select Hegu, Neiting, Quchi, and combine with Tiantu, Shaoze, and Yuji, 2 to 4 points each time, use the purgative method, 1 to 2 times a day. For deficiency syndrome, select Taixi, Yuji, Sanyinjiao and Zusanli, use equal tonification and purgation, retain the needles for 20 to 30 minutes, once a day.

2. Ear Acupuncture

For excess heat syndrome, take the tonsils, throat, lungs, stomach, and adrenal glands and give strong stimulation, leaving the needles in for 10 to 20 minutes, once a day; or bury the needles in the tonsil points and press several times a day to strengthen the stimulation. For deficiency syndrome, select the throat, adrenal gland, subcortical, spleen, kidney and other acupoints, press with fenugreek seed paste, press 2 to 3 times a day with medium intensity to enhance stimulation.

3. Bloodletting

For those with red, swollen, painful laryngeal tubercle and high fever, you can prick the tonsils, ear tips and other ear points or the dorsal ear vein for bloodletting. You can also prick Shaoshang or Shangyang for bloodletting, and let a few drops of blood from each point, once a day, to relieve heat and reduce swelling.

4. Acupuncture injection

For patients with excess heat syndrome, select Pishu, Jianjingneiwufen, Quchi, Tiantu, Quchi, Kongzui, etc., choose 1 to 3 points on one side each time, and inject 2 ml of Chaihu injection or Houttuynia injection into each point.