How to treat chronic tonsillitis? Carefully choose surgical treatment

Chronic tonsillitis can occur at any age, especially in children. As long as children have a cold, their tonsils will become inflamed and swollen. Surgery can treat chronic tonsillitis, but it should still be chosen with caution.

1. General treatment

(1) Keep your mouth clean. Brush your teeth before going to bed and rinse your mouth after meals to reduce the chance of bacterial infection in the oral cavity.

(2) For the gargling method, you can choose iodine tablets, 1 to 2 tablets each time, 3 to 4 times a day. Gargling with light salt water is simple and convenient. You can take a cup of warm water after meals and before going to bed, add a little salt until it tastes salty, and gargle repeatedly for about 5 minutes each time.

(3) For drug treatment, vitamin C can be taken for a long time, 1 tablet each time, 3 times a day. People with weak constitutions are prone to the disease and should use preparations to enhance their immune function under the guidance of a doctor. Do not abuse anti-inflammatory drugs during non-acute attacks.

(4) Physical exercise: Participate in physical exercise to enhance physical fitness and disease resistance.

2. Surgical treatment options

(1) Tonsils are too enlarged, which hinders breathing and swallowing.

(2) Recurrent acute attacks, more than 4 to 5 times per year, with a history of peritonsillar abscess.

(3) Long-term low-grade fever with no other lesions found in systemic examination except tonsillitis.

(4) Diseases such as nephritis and rheumatism caused by tonsillitis should be treated with elective surgery under the guidance of a doctor.

3. Those who are not suitable for surgery

(1) Acute inflammatory period and periods of acute illness, upper respiratory tract infection and epidemics.

(2) Patients with hematopoietic system diseases, hypocoagulopathy, hypertension, heart disease, tuberculosis, etc. are not suitable for surgery.

(3) Women should not undergo surgery during their menstrual period or 3 to 5 days before their menstrual period.

(4) Patients with dry or atrophic pharyngitis do not need surgery unless it is absolutely necessary; otherwise, the symptoms of pharyngitis will worsen after surgery.