Tonsillitis is inflammation of the tonsils and pharyngitis is inflammation of the throat.

These two inflammations often occur at the same time. Symptoms of tonsil

Tonsillitis are fever, chills, sore throat, and painful swallowing.

Tonsillitis and pharyngitis are two different diseases that often co-exist and affect each other. Acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis have symptoms such as dry throat, burning, sore throat, which is aggravated by swallowing, sometimes accompanied by earache, dry cough, which can be accompanied by fever, malaise of the periphery, headache, dry stools and other systemic symptoms. So it is often confused.

Generally speaking, acute pharyngitis has mild systemic symptoms, while acute tonsillitis tends to have more systemic symptoms. Examination of the tonsils if you see congestion, swelling, and even yellowish-white pus spots attached, while the surrounding pharyngeal wall mucosa congestion is relatively mild, acute tonsillitis; on the contrary, if the congestion, edema to the pharyngeal wall mucosa is dominated by the pharyngeal red, pharyngeal wall lymphoid follicle hyperplasia, while the tonsil inflammation is mild, it is an acute pharyngitis.