Tonsil

DescriptionIs an infection of the tonsils (strep) tonsils caused by a virus. Usually affects children aged 5-15 years. Based on long plagued, the tonsils can be divided into 2; tonsils of acute and chronic tonsillitis.Categorized as acute tonsillitis if the disease lasts less than 3 weeks. The tonsils is called chronic if it occurs seven times or more a year, or five times over two years, three times a year in a row.SymptomThe symptoms of thyroid problems, among others; sufferers feel tegorokan feels dry, or a sense of lump in the throat (neck), pain on swallowing (swallowing saliva or food and beverage) to become lazy meal, the pain may spread to the neck and ears.Other symptoms include fever, headache, sometimes chills, weakness, muscle pain with a cough, runny nose, hoarseness, halitosis, nausea, sometimes abdominal pain, enlarged lymph nodes (lymph nodes) around the neck. Sometimes people with tonsillitis (chronic) snore during sleep (especially if accompanied by an enlarged adenoid glands (glands in the wall between the back of the throat and nasal cavity).Symptoms can be known if the patient examination. At the time of examination, found enlargement of the tonsils (tonsillectomy), colored red, white patches sometimes found (exudate) on the surface of the tonsils, red color that indicates inflammation around the tonsils and throat.Keep in mind that not all complaints and signs on one person hired by the patient. This is because both individual complaints and most of the parents or the patient will see a doctor when experiencing symptoms of fever and pain on swallowing.TreatmentIn the medical world there is actually no specific way to prevent the tonsils. But some of the tips below help to get rid of the tonsils, first, get used to wash your hands frequently to prevent the spread of micro-organisms that can cause tonsillitis. Second, avoid contact with infected persons tanggorokan, at least up to 24 hours after the patient a throat infection (caused by germs) to get antibiotics.