Persistence and sore throat are standard signs of infectious diseases transmitted by airborne droplets. If with a cold and ARVI everything is clear (these diseases go quickly and without consequences), then what about sore throat? This pathology often takes a chronic form. Therefore, it is so important to treat it correctly. Many patients wonder: is it possible to warm the throat with angina? Today you will learn about the consequences and ways of carrying out this manipulation.
Angina in children
The most common tonsillitis occurs in childhood. The reason for this is staying in large groups: kindergartens, schools, on the site. Angina is a contagious disease. You can pick it up by airborne droplets or by personal contact. You can get a sore throat even on your own, being in an isolated room. "How?" - you ask. Everything is very simple!
The causative agent of tonsillitis can be fungi, viruses or bacteria. The latter most often cause such a disease. If you suffer from a chronic bacterial rhinitis or have caries, then microorganisms easily affect the tonsils with the slightest decrease in immunity. Hypothermia, overwork, stress, a small cold - and now the child has already contracted a sore throat. How to distinguish pathology from a viral infection or other disease?
Symptoms
How is the disease manifested in children? It all depends on the severity of the disease and its type. In all cases, there is an increased temperature. The values of the thermometer in this case are 38-40 degrees. With angina, the throat always hurts. Often a child cannot eat properly. Extreme discomfort even delivers a drink. If you look into the throat, you will see enlarged tonsils, which may have a purulent coating in the form of dots or gaps. This symptom reports purulent bacterial tonsillitis, which is more dangerous for its complications than viral diseases.
With angina, the child may have a head or stomach ache. Sometimes a digestive upset occurs, accompanied by increased gas formation and thinning of the stool. With tonsillitis, the patient experiences general weakness and apathy, increased drowsiness. You can not tolerate the disease on the legs, as it can cause complications: rheumatism, kidney pathologies, heart and vascular diseases.
Treatment methods
Angina in children, the symptoms and treatment of which is determined and prescribed by a doctor, often proceeds in an acute form. It turns out that this is the easiest way to cure. With the provision of incorrect or untimely assistance to the patient, tonsillitis takes a chronic form of the course. It is already more difficult to get rid of such a disease. Depending on the symptoms of angina in children, the appropriate treatment should be prescribed.
With bacterial damage, antibiotics are prescribed. To date, penicillins with the addition of clavulanic acid can be considered the most effective means to combat tonsillitis: Augmentin, Amoxiclav. If the child is allergic to these drugs, which is not uncommon, then cephalosporins or sulfonamides are prescribed. Symptomatic therapy involves the use of antipyretic and analgesics. If tonsillitis occurs with nasal congestion, then, to facilitate breathing, the child is prescribed vasoconstrictors in the appropriate age dosage.
Local processing
Sore throat with angina can be quickly stopped with the help of local drugs. Antiseptic and analgesic lozenges (Strepsils, Septolete) are used in children only after 4-6 years. From 4 years old, antibacterial tablets for resorption have been used (Gramitsidin, Grammidin). Irrigation sprays are allowed from 2-3 years: "Ingalipt", "Tantum Verde". Well-proven drug "Bioparox" for the treatment of tonsillitis. But recently, it has been banned due to frequent adverse reactions.
Is it possible to warm the throat with angina?
Many parents do not want to stuff their child with pills, especially antibiotics. They prefer to resort to grandmother's methods of treatment. At the same time, thermal procedures come to the fore. Before resorting to such, you should ask your doctor if you can warm your throat with angina. After all, it is possible that manipulation will harm your child, without having rendered any help.
When asked whether it is possible to warm the throat with purulent sore throat, doctors answer negatively. The reasons for refusing such a procedure are mass.
- When warming, a rapid expansion of blood vessels occurs, which can provoke the entry of a bacterial infection through the bloodstream into other organs and systems (a complication of angina).
- Heat treatments contribute to the spread of pathogenic flora through the lymphatic system. Tonsils are her tip.
- Heat is the best breeding ground for bacteria. By warming the baby’s throat, you feed microorganisms, not destroy them.
So, a complete contraindication for warming the throat with angina is its purulent form and high temperature. There is an opinion that at the very beginning of the disease, when there is still no plaque, and of all the signs there is only perspiration, such manipulations may be useful. It is important to execute them correctly.
Methods of heating with improvised means
There are several proven ways to warm your throat:
- heat the salt in a dry frying pan, wrap it in a scarf and attach to the neck;
- make an iodine grid on the skin in the area of the tonsils;
- boil potatoes and breathe hot steam.
These manipulations have long been used by our ancestors for warming. Modern physicians are skeptical of such actions. You can experiment as much as you like, but it will not lead to anything good. So, for example, alcohol is completely dangerous for the child's body. As it turned out, even from diluted vodka should not make compresses. With hot steam you can burn the baby's delicate skin. In addition, sitting near boiling water is not so safe for a small child. Some children may have an allergy to iodine. If you do not know whether it is possible to warm the throat with angina with salt or in other ways described, then it is better to consult a pediatrician. You can say with high probability that the doctor will forbid you from such manipulations.
Warm throat from the inside out
Hot tea with angina warms the inflamed mucosa from the inside. But will it help treat tonsillitis? Of course not!
The boiling water that the child will drink can only aggravate the pathology. Hot liquid that adults can drink is not always as easy to take as a child. One wrong move, a gulp, and the mucous membrane is already burned. This, in turn, will create favorable conditions for the development of microorganisms. Hot tea with angina is better to replace with warm fruit juice from viburnum, lingonberries or other antiseptic berries.
For the treatment of tonsillitis, Lugol is often used. The iodine solution can rightfully be considered an effective tool. It has not only a warming effect, but also destroys pathogenic microorganisms and promotes tissue regeneration. Use such a drug should only be prescribed by a doctor.
Minin's lamp
Can I warm my throat with a sore throat with a blue lamp? According to some doctors, this remedy can actually be useful in the treatment of tonsillitis. Do not confuse a blue lamp with an ultraviolet lamp. Their principle of operation is completely different. Minin's lamp sends infrared radiation, supplying heat to the desired area. Unlike ultraviolet, it is not capable of causing burns, and also has no bactericidal effect. The blue lamp relieves swelling, improves blood circulation, promotes tissue regeneration, and boosts immunity. Viral tonsillitis is one of the indications for the use of this device. It is forbidden to warm the throat with this device with purulent plaque and an increase in body temperature.
To summarize
If you doubt whether it is possible to warm the throat with a sore throat for a child, then it is better not to carry out such manipulation. Visit your pediatrician for an appropriate treatment. If a specialist recommends antibiotics, then it is better not to refuse them. Have a good health!