Pharyngitis - this is serious!

Pharyngitis is a serious disease of the pharynx and lymphoid tissue. The upper part of the tract between the mouth and esophagus belongs to the pharynx. This disease manifests itself in an acute form, which can develop into a chronic one.
Pharyngitis is, most often, a viral disease. Its appearance is caused by rhinovirus, adenovirus, coronavirus and parainfluenza virus. Usually, acute pharyngitis accompanies the development of any respiratory infection. The disease can be caused by bacteria, but it is much less common. Bacterial pharyngitis is the result of penetration into the body of streptococcus, Neisseria, chlamydia.

The chronic form of the disease appears as a result of infection of the upper respiratory tract. Also, this can be facilitated by a constant irritant effect on the mucous with alcohol, tobacco, and chemicals. Symptoms that indicate that you have pharyngitis are pain and sore throat, fever, dry cough. In this case, the lymph nodes increase on the neck. If you perform an examination of the throat, then you can detect mucosal looseness and enlarged palatine tonsils. Granulosa pharyngitis is accompanied by the appearance of inflamed foci in the form of specks, covered with white coating.

In order to detect pharyngitis, it is enough to conduct pharyngoscopy. In difficult cases, the doctor appoints additional studies. A single case of the appearance of pain in the throat is not yet an occasion to diagnose pharyngitis. But we must remember that the treatment of chronic pharyngitis will be optimal only if the nature of the disease is correctly determined, and only a doctor can do this. Therefore, if you have any suspicions of pharyngitis, you should consult a therapist.
Treatment of pharyngitis is prescribed depending on its nature. But in any case, the patient should not take anything that irritatively affects the mucous membrane of the pharynx. It's hot or cold food, spicy, salty, sour. It is necessary to use as much water as possible and to give up alcohol and smoking.

If the disease is caused by a virus, then the treatment will be local. Rinses are prescribed, the use of special antiseptic and anti-inflammatory aerosols, troches and lozenges. If the doctor has determined that the nature of pharyngitis is bacterial, then antibiotics are added to the treatment.

Begin the treatment of pharyngitis best in a timely manner, with the first manifestations of the disease. Otherwise, the treatment will be more difficult, slower, as a result, the disease can go into a chronic form, getting rid of it is much more difficult.

Often children suffer from pharyngitis. In order to avoid this, it is necessary to carry out preventive measures: hardening, intake of vitamins and stimulants of the immune system. This is especially important in the cold period, when the risk of entry into the body of a viral infection is particularly high. Treatment for pharyngitis should be carried out with any manifestation of acute respiratory viral infection, regardless of the intensity of the symptoms.