Pharyngitis is called the inflammatory processes of the mucous membrane of the pharynx and tonsils. This disease is considered the most common among other ENT diseases in both children and adults. It is recorded in every fourth patient out of five.
Acute and chronic pharyngitis: symptoms
In the acute form of the disease, the patient feels tickling, soreness in the throat, swallowing becomes quite painful. Body temperature can rise above 38 degrees. The most severe course of pharyngitis occurs precisely in childhood. Almost every case of pharyngitis in children is combined with inflammatory processes of the nasopharynx and rhinitis.
The course of the disease in chronic pharyngitis depends on the form (hypertrophic, atrophic, catarrhal), and the manifestation of the disease also changes . As a rule, the patient is tormented by constant dry mouth, sore and scratching in the throat. A dry cough usually appears, and voice fatigue increases significantly. Coughing with hypertrophic and catarrhal pharyngitis occurs in the form of a viscous sputum mucosa.
Chronic pharyngitis - drug treatment
The treatment is carried out in a complex. The doctor prescribes antibiotics that are most suitable for a particular case. Together with antibiotics, pharyngitis chronic treatment implies a local character. Various procedures are used: inhalation, herbal or antibacterial rinses, oiling the throat itself. In addition to all, in order to alleviate the general condition of the patient, drugs are prescribed to reduce the temperature.
How to treat chronic pharyngitis with folk remedies
A great recipe from herbs for treating a disease. Take one tablespoon of chopped plants: eucalyptus, sage, lime blossom, plantain (you can chamomile or calendula). Pour the grass with 500 ml of water and boil for 15 minutes over low heat. When the broth has cooled, add a spoonful of honey and citric acid on the tip of the knife. Rinsing such a decoction of the throat every hour, you can already significantly reduce the symptoms of the disease in a day.
Chronic pharyngitis, the treatment of which is carried out by folk remedies, implies the choice of plants containing tannin. Specifically, this is St. John's wort, oak bark , birch leaves , viburnum, willow. To combat inflammation, you can take lemon balm, sage, chamomile, mallow flowers, aspen, barberry. To prepare the broth, take three tablespoons of herbs and pour a couple of glasses of boiling water. Insist hour, strain and gargle as often as possible.
Well soften the throat and reduce pain soda inhalation. Take a teaspoon of soda and a glass of boiling water. Above a vessel with such a solution should be breathed twice a day, tightly wrapped up at the same time. Soda kills bacteria that live in the patient’s nasopharynx.
Chronic pharyngitis, the treatment of which is carried out in children, involves the use of the same recipes as for an adult, but it will not hinder to consult with a doctor beforehand.