What to do if your baby has tonsillitis and fever

Tonsillitis is a very common disease in childhood. When infants and young children have tonsillitis, it is easy to cause fever and bacterial and viral infections, which have a great impact on the health of the body. Repeated inflammation of the tonsils can also easily lead to swollen tonsils, which can be treated with surgery.

What should I do if my baby has tonsillitis and a persistent fever?

Tonsillitis is a common problem in infants and young children. Many children suffer from recurrent tonsillitis and have to have their tonsils removed. The first symptom of tonsillitis is fever, or even a high fever that won't go away. So how should this situation be handled?

Any inflammation can cause a fever, including tonsillitis. Tonsils are the gateway to the respiratory tract, and bacteria and viruses from the mouth and nose are the first to invade them. The tonsillar fossa is also the place where bacteria and metabolites are most likely to accumulate. It is a place where dirt and filth are hidden. As long as the humidity and temperature are suitable, it is easy to be infected. Once you suffer from tonsillitis, exogenous pyrogens such as bacteria and viruses will cause your immunity to decline, making it easy to develop a fever.

1. Pay attention to rest, drink plenty of water, eat soft food, strengthen nutrition and clear bowel movements. If the sore throat is severe or the fever is high, you can take antipyretic and analgesic drugs orally. At the same time, local treatment can also be used, such as gargling with compound boric acid solution, warm salt water, etc., or taking throat lozenges, local flushing and steam inhalation, etc.

2. Patients with recurrent tonsillitis or multiple complications of peritonsillar abscesses, as well as those with enlarged tonsils that hinder swallowing and breathing, and those who are often inflamed and spread to adjacent organs, leading to otitis media, lymphadenitis, etc., should be sent to the hospital for treatment in time.

3. Ginger has been used as both food and medicine since ancient times. The rhizome of old ginger has medicinal effects. In addition to the effects of sweating, relieving fever and keeping warm, it can also eliminate inflammation and resolve phlegm. Adding tangerine peel (dried orange peel) to ginger soup will have a better effect. Add 5 grams each of ginger and tangerine peel, a little sugar, and 400 grams of water, boil it into 1/3 of the volume, and you can drink it. Drink it while hot and then rest to double the effect.

4. Hypothermia therapy: It is also a minimally invasive surgical method for treating tonsillitis. Unlike laser and microwave treatments that use high temperatures of over 150 degrees, it uses low-temperature plasma at a lower temperature (around 40-70 degrees) to ablate the soft palate tissue and cause it to deform and scar, thereby effectively solving the problem of throat obstruction. It does not cause as much damage to tissue as laser or surgery, and generally achieves the best results after 3-6 weeks.

Although tonsillitis is not a serious illness, repeated high fevers can really make parents anxious. When children have repeated fevers, and the fevers are high and won't go away, parents are always worried that they will get sick from the fever.