How to treat suppurative pharyngitis? What fruits can help?

Purulent pharyngitis is a more serious symptom of pharyngitis. Unhealthy diet, long-term cold and cough, viral infection, etc. can all cause throat discomfort. Eating spicy food when your throat is feeling uncomfortable is most likely to cause suppurative pharyngitis. What fruits can help relieve this symptom?

1. Chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis:

(1) Discomfort, pain, itching or dryness in the throat, sometimes with a burning, smoky or foreign body sensation; irritating cough, coughing up secretions in the morning, and even nausea.

(2) The pharyngeal mucosa is thickened and dark red, with dilated small blood vessels. The posterior pharyngeal wall has granular lymphoid follicles that proliferate and are scattered and even fuse into sheets. The lateral pharyngeal cords are thickened and protrude into the pharyngeal cavity in cord-like shapes on both sides. There may be sticky or mucopurulent secretions on the posterior pharyngeal wall.

2. Streptococcal pharyngitis:

The onset is acute, with dryness and burning in the throat at the beginning, followed by sore throat. The sore throat is often more obvious when swallowing an empty stomach than when eating. Severe cases are accompanied by chills, high fever, headache, general discomfort, loss of appetite, and sore back and limbs. The pain in the throat gradually worsens and may cause corresponding symptoms depending on the area of ​​inflammation. When the lateral pharyngeal cord is inflamed, it causes difficulty and pain in swallowing, accompanied by ear pain. When the lymphatic tissue at the base of the tongue is inflamed, there is severe burning or stabbing pain that radiates to both ears. When the Eustachian tube is affected, there will be stuffy ears, tinnitus and hearing loss. If the lesion invades the throat, symptoms such as cough, hoarseness, and difficulty breathing will occur. Children with severe illness may suffer from convulsions.

3. Chronic simple pharyngitis:

Systemic symptoms are not obvious, but local symptoms are the main ones. The symptoms of various types of chronic pharyngitis are roughly similar, and vary, such as discomfort in the throat, foreign body sensation, itching, burning, dryness or irritation, and may also be accompanied by slight pain. It is mainly caused by stimulation of its secretions and hypertrophic lymph follicles. There may be cough and nausea.

4. Acute pharyngitis:

The onset is acute and often occurs simultaneously with acute rhinitis. Initially, you may feel dryness, itching, slight pain, burning sensation and foreign body in the throat, followed by sore throat, which is mostly burning pain and is more severe when swallowing empty throat. The pain may radiate to the ears. The above local symptoms are more common in adults, while systemic symptoms are mild or absent. Children and critically ill adults may have more severe systemic symptoms, such as chills, high fever, headache, general malaise, loss of appetite, thirst, constipation, and even nausea and vomiting.

examine:

Throat swab culture and bacterial sensitivity testing are often used.

treat:

Eliminate various pathogenic factors, such as quitting smoking and drinking, improving the working environment, and actively treating chronic inflammatory lesions of the nose and nasopharynx and related systemic diseases. Strengthen physical fitness, improve body immunity, and prevent acute upper respiratory tract infections. Get enough rest, drink plenty of water, and eat light, easily digestible food. If you have fever or sore throat, you should promptly adopt physical cooling measures (such as warm water or 75% alcohol bath, placing ice packs on the head, etc.) and other antipyretic measures such as medication. Commonly used drugs include oral APC or intramuscular injection of antonidine, etc., and keep the oral cavity clean.

Fruits suitable for pharyngitis:

1. Pear: It tastes sweet and sour, and is cool in nature. It has the effects of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing yin and reducing fire. Pears are rich in water and vitamin C, and are a good fruit for the dry autumn climate. Pears are effective for treating dry throat, hoarseness and thick phlegm caused by upper respiratory tract infections. Steaming pears and Fritillaria cirrhosa powder is a good remedy for treating long-term cough. Pears are rich in potassium and can lower blood pressure. Cooked pears help the kidneys excrete uric acid and prevent gout.

2. Cherry: sweet and sour in taste, warm in nature, has the effects of nourishing blood, nourishing the skin, warming the spleen and stomach. Modern research shows that cherries are rich in iron, citric acid and vitamin C, and are a good fruit for replenishing blood. It ripens before all other fruits and is known as "the first branch of spring fruit". It can strengthen the spleen and stomach functions and improve the immune system for patients with pharyngitis.

3. Loquat: The whole part of loquat can be used as medicine, and the fruit can moisten the lungs and promote diuresis, clear away heat and strengthen the spleen, and has a good effect on maintaining the liver. Rich in vitamin C, it can resist ascorbic acid. Loquat can relieve cough, moisten the lungs, promote diuresis, strengthen the stomach, and clear away heat. It has a moisturizing effect on patients with chronic pharyngitis. It is an important nutritious and health-care fruit for people in early summer. However, people with vitiligo should avoid eating it because vitamin C can prevent the precipitation of melanin.

There are many treatments for pharyngitis now, generally speaking there are several types:

1. Western medicine treatment of pharyngitis: Western medicine treatment of pharyngitis mainly uses antibiotics, which are effective in the acute stage, but antibiotics are highly destructive to human tissue cells. Antibiotics also have strong drug resistance. Excessive use will produce ineffective reactions. This is also the reason why there are widespread calls to ban the use of antibiotics.

2. Using tea to guide the treatment of pharyngitis: Medicinal tea has made up for the gap that Western medicine cannot completely cure pharyngitis. The way of using tea to guide the treatment of pharyngitis ensures the continuity, chronicity and effectiveness of the medicine. This type of medicinal tea for the treatment of pharyngitis includes (Ganzhilu yin), Zhiyuantang ancient recipe Ganzhilu tea, which is green and natural, and has miraculous anti-inflammatory effects. It has a sweet and bitter taste and the soup is clear. When drinking "tea", the internal ingredients enter the lungs and internal organs along with the blood, which not only helps to clear away heat and detoxify, clear the throat and moisten the throat, but also has the effects of moistening and protecting the lungs, soothing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, preventing the recurrence of throat diseases, and can completely improve and cure all kinds of stubborn chronic pharyngitis. This is currently the best way to treat pharyngitis.

3. Chinese herbal lozenges: Chinese herbal lozenges for the treatment of pharyngitis are mainly fire-clearing, toxin-clearing, throat-clearing and throat-relief drugs. They can relieve the general and early symptoms of pharyngitis and are not very destructive to the throat mucosal tissue. Therefore, they are more common in the treatment of mild pharyngitis.

Things to note for pharyngitis are:

1. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, avoid cold, and stay in bed during the acute stage.

2. Drink more light salt water, eat easily digestible food, and keep bowel movements smooth.

3. Avoid smoking, drinking, spicy, overly cold, overly hot stimulating food.

4. Pay attention to oral hygiene and develop the habit of rinsing your mouth after meals to prevent bacteria from growing.

5. Eat more honey, tomatoes, carambolas, lemons, green fruits, kelp, radishes, and other foods.