Acute tonsillitis symptoms in children

In addition to chronic tonsillitis, there is also acute tonsillitis, which is mainly caused by bacteria such as Staphylococcus or some acute infectious diseases. Children are also prone to this type of disease. After becoming ill, they will feel extreme pain in the throat and may even experience obvious difficulty in swallowing. Therefore, parents must understand the causes and signs of acute tonsillitis in children so that they can better treat the disease.

Tonsillitis symptoms in children

1. Sore throat: Sore throat occurs every time you catch a cold, get chilled, overwork, have poor sleep, or are stimulated by tobacco or alcohol, and there is discomfort and a feeling of blockage in the throat. Symptoms are usually not obvious, but there is often a history of acute attacks. The throat pain caused by tonsillitis is often severe, and sometimes the patient will feel pain when swallowing saliva. If the patient's throat is facing the light, it will be clearly found that his tonsils are covered with white, grayish white or yellowish substances.

2. Fever: When some bacteria or viruses cause tonsillitis, the body's temperature regulation center and temperature center function become disordered, resulting in increased body temperature. Young children often experience health problems such as convulsions, vomiting or drowsiness, loss of appetite, constipation, and general acidity.

3. Dry throat, bad breath, and foreign body sensation: Due to the growth of bacteria in the tonsils and the purulent embolism remaining in the tonsils, bad breath, dry throat, itching, and foreign body sensation may often occur, including a feeling of blockage, pressure, sticking to the leaves, narrowing, dryness, burning, itching, crawling sensation or other discomfort.

4. Enlarged tonsils: more common in children. Enlarged tonsils can cause difficulty in swallowing, slurred speech, shortness of breath or snoring during sleep. If the tonsils are too enlarged, breathing, swallowing or speech resonance problems may occur.

5. Systemic adverse reactions: When the inflammatory secretions produced by tonsillitis are swallowed, they will stimulate the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract or crypts, thereby causing toxins to be absorbed and causing systemic adverse reactions: indigestion, loss of appetite, fatigue, easy fatigue, weight loss, headache, low fever and other symptoms.

6. Systemic manifestations: Tonsils and palatoglossal arches are diffusely congested, and yellow and white cheesy dots can be seen at the openings of the crypts; these dots sometimes need to be squeezed out of the crypts by squeezing the palatoglossal arches with a tongue depressor.

Symptoms of tonsillitis in children

1. Are the lips red? A child's lips should be pink. Sometimes they become red due to exercise, and they should return to pink when they are quiet. Children who have a fever or tonsillitis will have lips that become red, even dark red. It is more obvious when you have a fever. If your child's lips become noticeably red, then you should pay attention.

2. Whether the breath is hot. Put your hand or face near the child's mouth, and you should feel that the temperature of the breath exhaled by the child is appropriate. If it feels significantly higher than normal, then you should pay attention to whether the child is getting hot.

3. Is the urine yellowish and not smooth enough? Generally speaking, children's urine should be clear, and even if it is yellow, it should be a very light yellow. If the child's urine becomes noticeably yellow, and he urinates a little at a time instead of smoothly, then he may be suffering from heat.

4. Whether the diet is normal. I found that in the early stages of tonsillitis, children obviously didn't like to eat. Even the things I used to like, I now eat much slower. This may be related to throat discomfort.