Treatment of suppurative tonsillitis in children

The physical health of children is an issue that parents attach great importance to. Once a child becomes ill, parents will certainly feel very distressed. Therefore, parents can learn some knowledge about common childhood diseases in daily life, so that when the child becomes ill, they can help the child treat the disease in time. Pediatric suppurative tonsillitis is a common pediatric disease, so how should it be treated?

Drug treatment

Traditional medicine generally uses antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs to treat acute tonsillitis. The disadvantage of this local treatment is that it can only eliminate bacteria but cannot clear the bacteria in the tonsillar crypts. Once the body's resistance is reduced, it is very easy to relapse, and chronic lesions will form over time.

Surgery

If tonsillitis is severe and frequent enough to affect your child's overall health or interfere with your child's ability to go to school, hear, or breathe, your doctor may recommend surgical removal of the tonsils (tonsillectomy).

(Your child must be hospitalized for this surgery and will be given general anesthesia. The risks are minimal, and this surgery will permanently eliminate the problem of tonsillitis.)

Body resection can be considered only in children with the following conditions:

1. Recurrent purulent tonsillitis, abscess around the tonsils, inflammation affecting adjacent organs, frequent otitis media and cervical lymphadenitis, cheesy secretions on the tonsils, and bad breath in children;

2. Enlarged tonsils hinder breathing, swallowing and pronunciation, causing snoring and restless sleep;

3. Chronic tonsillitis causes rheumatic fever, nephritis and other diseases;

4. Chronic tonsillitis causes long-term low fever, loss of appetite, and affects children's growth and development.

In the above article, we introduced a disease that children are prone to, that is, purulent tonsillitis in children. The occurrence of purulent tonsillitis in children causes great trouble to children. We can use drug treatment methods to deal with purulent tonsillitis in children, or we can use surgical treatment methods.