Therefore, the tonsils need to practice their antibacterial and defensive abilities so as not to be violated. Once they are negligent, they will easily become inflamed, causing symptoms such as chills, headaches and body fever.
There are four main ways to treat tonsillitis, including treatment of tea, dietotherapy, medication or surgery. Most people will choose the first three ways to treat the disease after tonsillitis.
Only a very small number of patients have to have their tonsils removed by excision to prevent the disease from getting worse and affecting other conditions of the body.
Some people are very worried that after tonsillectomy, the defense function of the throat will weaken and their immunity will deteriorate. Is this true?
Tonsils themselves play a role in preventing bacteria and viruses from invading the respiratory tract and digestive tract. Once there is no protective layer of tonsils, the body will be more vulnerable to harmful factors, and tonsils also participate in humoral immunity and cellular immunity, helping the human body to produce B lymphocytes.
We should know that B lymphocytes can synthesize various immunoglobulins. Without tonsils, the immune function will naturally decline and the incidence of diseases will naturally increase. Therefore, under normal circumstances, tonsillectomy is generally not recommended.
Ordinary tonsillitis only needs active antiviral and anti-inflammatory treatment, which can restore the tonsils to normal state.
If the following situations occur, tonsillectomy should be considered.
First, tonsil hypertrophy, affecting swallowing function
Mild hypertrophy of tonsils generally does not have much influence on human body, but pathological hyperplasia and hypertrophy will easily stimulate the throat repeatedly by inflammation, which will make people feel foreign body sensation in the throat in the early stage. If it is not treated in time, it will affect people's swallowing function, and the human body will lose weight quickly and weaken in a long time.
It can also cause abnormal conditions in the ears, nose and respiratory tract. Some children's tonsil hypertrophy is easy to cause adenoid face, and even affect intellectual development and systemic symptoms. In these cases, it is best to perform tonsillectomy in time to avoid further damage to the body.
Second, chronic tonsillitis frequently occurs.
Chronic tonsillitis is a kind of disease that is difficult to cure. It is easy to make people feel dry and itchy in the throat and have foreign body sensation when they attack. After a long time, it will cause adenoids to swell, which will cause symptoms such as dyspnea, headache, body fever and fatigue. Only by removing the tonsils by surgery can the lesions be completely eliminated, so as not to cause various complications.
Third, abscess around tonsil is easy to cause other diseases.
After the tonsil is seriously damaged, it is prone to abscess around it. If you find that you can't eliminate the abscess after using drugs, and it affects your breathing and swallowing function, you should consider removing it through surgery to avoid causing other diseases, such as pharyngitis, laryngeal edema and parapharyngeal abscess.
I believe everyone doesn't want to have their tonsils removed. In order to prevent this from happening, we should try our best to protect our tonsils.
Under normal circumstances, as long as you can keep warm at ordinary times and do a good job in diet and health care, you can help yourself prevent tonsillitis or reduce the number of tonsillitis attacks. Once tonsillitis happens, you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time, and don't delay the development of chronic disease, which makes the treatment of the disease more difficult.