Purulent sore throat refers to seasonal diseases that affect human health, mainly in the autumn-spring period, that is, when the susceptibility of the body to the activity of infectious pathogens is highest. Treatment of pathology implies a comprehensive approach with the mandatory use of local or general antibiotics and completely excludes self-diagnosis and the use of symptomatic therapy.
Features of the treatment of pathology
When diagnosing purulent tonsillitis, hospitalization is required in rare cases. Basically, these are complex, neglected situations in children or the onset of intoxication in adult patients. As a rule, treatment is easy to carry out at home, especially since at home, means of adjuvant therapy based on herbs and other natural products are much easier to apply.
The throat with purulent sore throat requires constant debridement, since the turbid exudate that accumulates on the tonsils is able to be transported with food to the internal organs and affect them with streptococcus. As a local disinfection, local antiseptics and sprays with antibacterial effect are used, and for the destruction of the infection as a whole - general antibiotics are injected or in tablet form.
The appointment of corticosteroids for purulent tonsillitis is rational when, due to severe swelling and pain, the patient cannot swallow food and take medicine. Reception of funds based on steroid substances is so safe that drugs of this category are freely prescribed even for pregnant women.
The use of traditional medicine, including herbal medicine, mineral therapy, as well as natural tinctures and mixtures of foods rich in essential oils and vitamins, is permissible at any stage of the disease. Coordinating their use with a doctor is only necessary if it is planned to partially replace conservative therapy with alternative ones - for example, use garlic tincture instead of one or two sprays with an antiseptic spray. It is impossible to completely replace drugs with medicines from a folk medicine cabinet. Particularly serious health effects are threatened with the abolition of the antibiotic.
The only acceptable means of symptomatic significance for purulent sore throat are painkillers and antihistamines, which temporarily bring relief in exacerbating the disease.
A sore throat does not allow the patient to eat fully, but just during this period of general weakening of the body, he needs more than ever digestible, plentiful food with a high content of vitamins. The way out of the situation is to purge all the dishes and consume a large amount of warm liquid in the process of eating - natural stewed fruit, sweetened with honey, milk, water with lemon. This will help not only to swallow food painlessly, but also contribute to better “binding” and elimination of toxins that are released into the body during an infectious disease in large quantities.
Treatment methods for tonsillitis in adults
The main goal of therapeutic action for purulent tonsillitis in adults and children is the complete destruction of the causative agent of streptococcal infection. This result can be achieved only by taking antibiotics of the macrolide class, second and third generation cephalosporins, amoxicillin derivatives or phenoxymethylpenicillin. The most prescribed drugs in these groups:
- "Erythromycin";
- "Azithromycin";
- "Cefuroxime";
- Ceftriaxone;
- Amoxiclav.
The length of the course of any of these funds should be no more than 10 days. If during this time the patient’s body temperature has not returned to normal, the antibiotic is replaced with another.
In some cases, when the use of a common antibacterial agent for purulent sore throat in adults is not enough, or its use is unacceptable (as in pregnancy), the doctor prescribes local antimicrobial sprays that are sprayed locally on the affected mucous throat. There are a lot of such drugs:
- Septolete;
- "Bioparox";
- "Cameton";
- "Ingalipt";
- "Faringosept" and others.
You should not refuse from the Lugol solution checked by time if the doctor considers it necessary to appoint it. The procedure for applying this product with turunda or a cotton swab to the area of the tonsils is in itself unpleasant, but it helps to achieve a double effect - to disinfect the inflammatory focus and remove purulent growths from the tonsil.
Features of the treatment of the disease in children
Purulent sore throat in children does not tolerate loyal treatment according to the "diagnosis" set at home, and even more so, it will not forgive the wait-and-see attitude that adults sometimes consider who have encountered a common SARS. The child’s first complaint of a sore throat should immediately be addressed to the doctor, while there is still the opportunity to prevent suppuration and dispense with gentle therapy.
Along with antibiotics, in order to stop possible complications, the child is always prescribed antihistamines (Zodak, Suprastin) and immunomodulators (Interferon, Cycloferon). Antibacterial agents themselves are selected taking into account the presence or absence of turbid exudate on the tonsils, age and individual characteristics of the baby's body. Modern pediatrics has a fairly wide selection of drugs used for purulent tonsillitis in children:
- Sumamed Forte;
- "Flemoxin Solutab";
- Amoxiclav;
- "Augmentin."
In the most difficult cases, antibiotics are prescribed for intramuscular administration, but usually doctors try to get along with oral medications in the form of syrups for the smallest and tablets, for older children.
Gargles for children after 5 years are prescribed the same as adults, reducing the concentration of solutions by about half. Standardly, use weak saline, manganese or furatsilinovye solutions. The frequency of rinsing - at least one procedure in 1 hour.
The benefits of inhalation with angina
When asked about whether inhalation can be done with purulent sore throat, most doctors will answer in the affirmative, but with the caveat that these processes will not affect the purulent process and the recovery will not be brought closer. The symptomatic picture of the disease will improve - pain will decrease, as edema will decrease and sputum coughing will be facilitated. But the same effect can be achieved by multiple rinses, the functionality of which is much wider, because they also remove the bacterial flora along with the spitting liquid.
Fans of the nebulizer can recommend such liquid solutions that have a good disinfecting effect, such as:
- "Dioxidine";
- "Chlorhexidine";
- Miramistin.
Those who prefer traditional methods of treatment will like neutral steam inhalations with soda and sea salt or grandma’s classic - inhaling steam over cooked in a jacket, well-boiled potatoes. With nasal congestion, often accompanying purulent sore throat, it is useful to breathe over a bowl of strong black tea, brewed with a pair of spoons of peppermint, or over the same cool drink, in which, 1 drop, essential oils of sage, mint, orange, thyme are added.
How to gargle with purulent sore throat
After the use of antibacterial agents, gargling with suppuration of the tonsils is in second place in importance. Not without reason, during the entire illness, doctors recommend performing procedures with a frequency of 10 to 15 times a day. How to rinse purulent tonsillitis? Solutions should be alternated, using, if possible, both pharmacy products, such as Furacilin or Stomatidin, and home-made antiseptics prepared according to one of the following recipes:
- Grate 1 medium peeled beetroot, pour into beetroot “shavings” 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar and infuse the mixture for 2-3 hours. Strained juice should be gargled as often as possible - up to 8 times a day;
- brew linden and chamomile flowers taken in one teaspoon with 2 cups of boiling water, cool, strain and use for rinsing;
- make a third of a glass of horsetail in a thermos of 0.5 l of boiling water, strain and apply in procedures after 2 hours;
- chop the middle leaves from the raspberry bush to brew boiling water at a rate of 1:20, insist under the lid until cool and strain;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of crushed plantain leaf brew a quarter liter of boiling water, cool and use for treatment;
- take a teaspoon of pharmacy chamomile grass and calendula, toss them in slightly boiling water and hold on fire for about 10 minutes. After two hours, strain and use the broth.
If there is no allergy to honey, you can add a small coffee spoon of this fragrant delicacy to all phyto-rinse products. The temperature of the decoction or infusion when adding honey to it, should not exceed 40 0 C.
Throat compresses for angina
Warming compresses on the throat with suppuration of the tonsils, this is another option for symptomatic treatment, which partially relieves the "cart" of pain that accompanies the disease. The procedure does not carry a significant therapeutic load, as in the case of inhalations, but it makes it possible to abandon the use of analgesics that do not have the best effect on the body.
Below are three recipes for effective compresses that quickly remove the cutting sensations in the throat with angina:
- Prepare a mixture of 1 tbsp. tablespoons of aloe pulp, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of honey and 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vodka. Apply the resulting paste to a four-fold piece of gauze, cover with a thick cloth on top and fix the compress on the throat.
- Pour a little alcohol into the plate (up to a third of a glass), drop 1-2 drops of essential oils of mint and thyme there and blot gauze for compress in a solution. It, just wrung out, is laid on the throat, covered with a warm scarf from above.
- Boil one large potato in its jacket, knead it with a fork and cool slightly. In a warm puree, add a third of a teaspoon of iodine and 2 teaspoons of sunflower oil, then put the potato mass on a gauze section and attach to the sore spot.
Compresses with essential oils and alcohol are kept on the throat for no more than 20 minutes, the rest can be changed one by one, as they cool, and they can warm the throat for two hours in a row - there will be no harm.
Oral Recipes
How to treat purulent tonsillitis at home? By means intended for ingestion, it is impossible to gargle before swallowing them, otherwise the whole pathogenic flora, together with a disturbed purulent substance, will enter the esophagus. The solutions are made slightly warm so that they do not cause convulsive compression of the throat muscles and do not irritate the mucous membrane.
Drinking formulations for the rapid treatment of purulent tonsillitis at home may be as follows.
- A large pinch of dried anise is poured with one and a half glasses of boiling water and infused for an hour. Strained infusion is taken before each meal in a small stack.
- Collection of those taken under 2 tbsp. spoons of plantain leaves and sage flowers, brew with three glasses of boiling water and then simmer over low heat under a lid for 5 minutes. After cooling and filtering, the solution is consumed 3-4 times a day in a small sip.
- Five plates of dried figs should be lowered in 250-300 ml of boiling milk and, stirring, then darken over low heat for 7 minutes. After cooling the milk to 35 0 C, the figs are taken out and eaten separately, and then all the milk is drunk. You need to do this just before bedtime.
Another good and old remedy on the topic of how to cure purulent tonsillitis is in almost every house and it does not need to be converted into solutions or infusions at all - this is a mummy. Just one tablet of resin, resorbed before bedtime, will strengthen the body's resistance and reduce the activity of pathogenic bacteria in the throat several times.
Medication for angina
The easiest way to use honey at home with purulent sore throat is to dilute 1 teaspoon of sweets in 200 ml of warm water. The resulting solution can not only gargle or drink it in any quantities, but also do compresses and rubbing with it. Honey vodka has excellent bactericidal and regenerative properties, and a couple of drops of lemon juice added to the solution will increase the antiseptic effect of the medicine on the sore throat.
A more complex recipe with honey, provided for the treatment of purulent tonsillitis in adults (photo presented in the article), is as follows. To prepare a honey-onion mixture, you need to brew a peeled and chopped medium onion with 2 cups boiling water, then simmer for 15 minutes under the lid over low heat and insist in heat until cool. In a strained warm liquid, if it is intended for rinsing, a couple drops of essential oil of orange or mint are injected, and if it is going to be drunk, 1 teaspoon of sea buckthorn oil.
Speaking about the benefits of honey, one cannot ignore the unique healing properties of fresh propolis. If there is no time to bother with mixing complex compounds, even an unprocessed substance will come in handy, from which you need to roll a small ball, like two match heads, and chew it well.
For those who are not afraid to use alcohol in medicinal mixtures, it is useful to purchase a ready-made propolis tincture in a pharmacy and, adding it to a teaspoon in half a glass of warm water, rinse the throat with a solution twice a day. An alternative to this rinse for people who do not accept alcohol compounds is oil with propolis. They prepare it this way: they mix the equally taken butter and natural propolis and remove the jar of medicine in the refrigerator. Three times a day, about half a teaspoon of the product is separated from the thick creamy mass and this paste is absorbed 30–40 minutes before meals.
Aloe from sore throat
Aloe has long shown itself in folk medicine as an analog-free bactericidal agent that simultaneously reduces the activity of pathogenic flora and positively affects the general immunity of the body. This representative of the Liliaceae family contains an almost complete composition of B vitamins and, in addition, there is a very valuable crystalline substance aloin, due to which aloe has such a specific bitterness.
Syrup from the pulp of aloe leaves, taken with purulent tonsillitis, can be prepared with honey or sugar.
- A half-liter jar should be filled up to half with chopped aloe-three-year-old leaves in a blender, and on top, to the shoulders of the jar, pour the vegetable gruel with sugar. The jar covered with gauze is cleaned for three days in the cold, then the contents are decanted and poured into a dark glass bottle.
- 300 g of chopped aloe leaves in a meat grinder are mixed with the same amount of Cahors and 0.5 kg of honey. The mixture is laid out in a jar or a ceramic pot, the neck is bandaged with gauze on top and the container is removed in the cold.
The norm for a single dose of any of the above funds is 1 tbsp. the spoon. Servings Per Day - 2 to 4
Garlic from tonsillitis
Garlic with angina is useful in itself, but with a purulent form of the disease, when the throat breaks up with pain, swallowing the caustic is not easy. To facilitate the swallowing and increase the medicinal value of garlic cloves, the product is mixed in two or three component formulations and taken in the form of syrups, drinks and medicinal pastes.
We offer several effective ways to prepare garlic mixtures for the treatment of throat:
- Pass through a garlic clove one clove of garlic and loosen the pulp in a glass of fresh apple juice. Boil the whole solution, remove from the stove and, after cooling, strain. Drink a drink in 1 glass twice a day.
- Finely chop a couple of cloves of garlic, dilute 200 ml of juice of bright orange carrots and insist for an hour. The infusion is consumed in a third of a glass three times a day, along with the flesh that has settled to the bottom.
- In a liter jar, put ¾ cup chopped garlic and pour everything with a solution of 0.5 liters of water and apple cider vinegar taken. After five days of insisting in a dark place, a small bottle of glycerin is poured into the mixture, the container is shaken, and the medicine obtained is filtered through the day. In a ready-made syrup add a third of a glass of linden honey. The mixture is drunk in 2 teaspoons during all main meals.
In addition to natural phytoncides, garlic contains a huge amount of B vitamins - much more than can be obtained through regular intake of multivitamins or dietary supplements.