There are many ailments that can be confused with each other. So, a person feels discomfort in the larynx, but he has a healthy throat. A doctor's visit will help to cope with painful symptoms and make the right diagnosis. It is better to get acquainted with the list of causes that cause false sensations. After all, often erroneous treatment begins to be carried out at home.
What are the tangled sensations connected with?
Healthy throat is quite difficult to meet. Infectious diseases in densely populated areas are transmitted instantly. But if the child complains of discomfort in the oropharynx, it is required to carefully examine the condition of the tonsils. If plaque is detected, treatment is required, but a slight reddening of the tissues does not always indicate the development of the disease.
Causes of periodic inflammation are chronic diseases. What a healthy throat looks like in a child and in an adult, we will consider later, but for now let's see what the causes of a sore throat may be:
- Catarrhal pharyngitis.
- Tonsillitis - often treated with the wrong methods, which only exacerbates the state of the oropharynx.
- Sinusitis promotes the development of a bacterial environment in the larynx.
- Rhinitis
- Tonsil erosion, bacterial plugs in the sinuses of which contain rotting deposits.
- The listed conditions are not dangerous and can be easily treated even at home. Therefore, early diagnosis and preventive measures are required.
Type of normal oropharynx
The first distinguishing feature of a healthy mucosa is the pinkish color of the tissues: tonsils, tongue, palate. When changing to gray shades or whitish, one can immediately conclude that the condition of the body is deteriorating. The redder the larynx becomes, the higher the activity of pathogens.
What should be a healthy throat? We list the main features:
- Tonsils do not have an enlarged condition.
- The color of the larynx depends on the food consumed, but a healthy throat often looks pinkish.
- Tonsils are heterogeneous, a small plaque is allowed on them. On the surface there are tubercles, differences. However, they should be small.
- Tonsils are often enlarged, but they can only be compared with previous conditions. So, when examining the children, parents remember the features of the throat, and in the future it is possible to determine the size of the tissue of the larynx without much difficulty.
Additional signs of a normal larynx
Laryngeal tissue in a healthy throat should not have purulent contents. White plaque indicates the development of thrush in children and adults. Also on the tonsils and palate should not be spots, heterogeneities, hyperemia. Dark shades, close to burgundy, indicate a strong inflammatory process.
With a runny nose, we can conclude that a person has not quite a healthy throat. The bacterial medium flows down the walls of the larynx, causing plaque and the formation of halitosis. Healthy tissue of the tonsils and walls of the larynx should not have loose inclusions.
Proper examination of children
A healthy and sore throat can only be distinguished in daylight. It is better if it turns out to go to the window in sunny weather. If it is impossible to achieve such conditions, use a flashlight. To fix the tongue, use a metal spoon at home.
It is unpleasant for small children from an extraneous cold object in their mouth, so it is better to choose plastic spoons. With the wide back of the cutlery, it is turned over. The handle of tea or dining spoons resembles an instrument used in the office of an otolaryngologist.
Examination of the older generation
Diagnosing the condition of the throat in adults is simpler in that you can find out the circumstances preceding the deterioration of well-being. When interviewing a patient, events that contributed to the development of an uncomfortable state are recorded. It can be drinking cold drinks, eating ice cream or a walk in the cold. Also, inflammation can form after contact with a sick person or with developed stomatitis.
It will be useful to take into account the chronic sores of a person: rhinitis, sinusitis. A reddened throat causes infectious infection, chronic pharyngitis, and viral activity. With a pale shade of tissues with the manifestation of veins and blood vessels, atrophic inflammation of the throat is judged.
A healthy throat in an adult older than 30 years old with chronic diseases is practically not found. Such sores inevitably lead to hypertrophic conditions on the tissues of the larynx. Even the effects of ordinary follicular tonsillitis are expressed as erosive changes in the tonsils.
Diagnostic difficulties
What does a sore and healthy throat look like? The photo is in the article, but each case requires an individual approach and a doctor's examination. Many symptoms can be noticed by anyone. For example, signs of lacunar angina. The following symptoms are inherent in it: purulent plaque on the tongue, tonsils, redness of the throat, subsequently acute pain when swallowing saliva. Tissues are scarred with a long illness, and a high temperature is maintained.
If you have a healthy throat, the photo shows the absence of inflammation. No plaque on tonsils and palate. Such conditions are observed in infants. The pink larynx is the standard for the normal appearance of the oropharynx.
With changes in the condition of the throat, a decrease in overall health is observed. Follicular tonsillitis causes staphylococcus activity. It is characterized by severe inflammation in the larynx, purulent formations, redness of the palate and tonsils. Painful sensations can occur in the neck, ears, nose.
If the plaque on the tongue is close to a brown tint, then it is recommended to examine the digestive organs. An additional symptom indicating pathology is bad breath. White intense plaque on the tongue and tonsils indicates the development of microorganisms - candida, or in other words thrush. To treat such a malaise is urgently required with medication. This infection weakens the body and facilitates access to other pathogenic microorganisms.
Negative factors for the larynx
A healthy throat is not something people with bad habits (smoking and alcohol) can boast of. In children, normal microflora is spoiled by malnutrition. Sweet foods, fried, salty, negatively affect. Preservatives linger on the tissues of the larynx, causing pathological changes in the cells.
To maintain a healthy mucous membrane, use daily dentifrices. Periodically treat the larynx with decoctions, pharmacy preparations from natural ingredients. It is also necessary to monitor the state of the body's immunity, because it depends on it whether the tissues are healthy.
Launched stages of sore throat are threatened with tonsillectomy. There is nothing wrong with that, but why bring it to pathology? It is better to diagnose the disease in a timely manner and carry out preventive measures.