Purulent tonsillitis refers to seasonal diseases that affect human he alth, mainly in the autumn-spring period, that is, when the body's susceptibility to the activity of infectious pathogens is highest. Treatment of pathology implies a comprehensive approach with the mandatory use of local or general antibiotics and completely excludes self-diagnosis and options for the use of symptomatic therapy.
Features of the treatment of pathology
When diagnosing purulent tonsillitis, hospitalization is required in rare cases. Basically, these are complex, neglected situations in children or intoxication of the body that has begun in adult patients. Generally, treatment is not difficult to do at home, especially since at home, supportive therapies based on herbs and other natural products are much easier to apply.
The throat with purulent sore throat requires constant sanitation, since the turbid exudate that accumulates on the tonsils is capable ofbe carried with food to the internal organs and infect them with streptococcus. As a local disinfection, local antiseptics and sprays with an antibacterial effect are used, and to destroy the infection as a whole, antibiotics of general action are injected or in tablet form.
Prescribing corticosteroids for purulent tonsillitis is rational when, due to severe swelling and pain, the patient cannot swallow food and take medication. Taking drugs based on steroid substances is so safe that drugs in this category are freely prescribed even to pregnant women.
It is permissible to use traditional medicine, including herbal medicine, mineral therapy, as well as natural tinctures and mixtures of foods rich in essential oils and vitamins, at any stage of the disease. It is necessary to coordinate their use with a doctor only if it is planned to partially replace conservative therapy with alternative therapy - for example, use garlic tincture instead of one or two sprays with an antiseptic spray. It is impossible to completely replace medicines from a folk first-aid kit with medicines. Antibiotic withdrawal threatens with especially serious he alth consequences.
The only acceptable means of symptomatic value in case of purulent sore throat are painkillers and antihistamines, which temporarily bring relief during an exacerbation of the disease.
A sore throat does not allow the patient to eat fully, but just in this period of general weakening of the body, he, more than ever, needs digestible, plentiful foodhigh in vitamins. The way out of the situation will be mashing all dishes and drinking a large amount of warm liquid in the process of eating - natural compotes, milk sweetened with honey, water with lemon. This will help not only to swallow food painlessly, but also contribute to a better “binding” and elimination of toxins released into the body during an infectious disease in large quantities.
Methods of treating angina in adults
The main goal of therapeutic action for purulent tonsillitis in adults and children is the complete destruction of the causative agent of streptococcal infection. This result can be achieved only by taking antibiotics of the macrolide class, second and third generation cephalosporins, amoxicillin derivatives or phenoxymethylpenicillin. Most prescribed drugs in these groups:
- Erythromycin;
- Azithromycin;
- Cefuroxime;
- Ceftriaxone;
- "Amoxiclav".
The duration of the course intake of any of these funds should be no more than 10 days. If during this time the patient's body temperature has not returned to normal, the antibiotic is replaced with another one.
In some cases, when the use of a general antibacterial agent for purulent sore throat in adults is not enough, or its use is unacceptable (as in cases of pregnancy), local antimicrobial sprays are prescribed by the doctor, sprayed locally on the affected throat mucosa. There are a lot of such drugs:
- "Septolete";
- Bioparox;
- "Kameton";
- Ingalipt;
- Faringosept and others
You should not refuse the time-tested Lugol solution, if the doctor deems it necessary to prescribe it. The procedure for applying this remedy with a turunda or a cotton swab to the tonsil area is unpleasant in itself, but it helps to achieve a double effect - to disinfect the inflammatory focus and remove purulent growths from the tonsil.
Features of the treatment of the disease in children
Purulent tonsillitis in children does not tolerate loyal treatment according to the “diagnosis” made at home, and even more so, it will not forgive the wait-and-see attitude that adults sometimes take, who believe that they are faced with a banal SARS. The first complaint of a child about a sore throat should immediately be addressed to a doctor, while there is still an opportunity to prevent pus formation and manage with sparing therapy.
Along with antibiotics, to stop possible complications, the child is always prescribed antihistamines ("Zodak", "Suprastin") and immunomodulators ("Interferon", "Cycloferon"). The antibacterial agents themselves are selected taking into account the presence or absence of cloudy exudate on the tonsils, the age and individual characteristics of the baby's body. Modern pediatrics has a fairly wide selection of drugs used for purulent tonsillitis in children:
- "Sumamed-forte";
- "Flemoxin Solutab";
- "Amoxiclav";
- Augmentina.
In the most difficult cases,antibiotics are prescribed for intramuscular injection, but usually doctors try to get by with oral medications in the form of syrups for the smallest and tablets for older children.
Gargles for children after 5 years of age are prescribed the same as for adults, reducing the concentration of solutions by about half. As a standard, weak saline, manganese or furatsilin solutions are used. The frequency of rinsing is at least one procedure every 1 hour.
The benefits of inhalation for angina
To the question of whether it is possible to do inhalations with purulent sore throat, most doctors will answer in the affirmative, but with the proviso that these manipulations will not affect the process of pus formation in any way and will not bring recovery closer. The symptomatic picture of the disease will improve - the pain will decrease, as the swelling will decrease and the expectoration of sputum will be facilitated. But the same effect can be achieved with repeated rinses, the functionality of which is much wider, because they also remove the bacterial flora along with the spitting liquid.
Fans of the nebulizer can recommend such liquid solutions that have a good disinfecting effect, such as:
- "Dioxydin";
- "Chlorhexidine";
- Miramistin.
Those who prefer traditional methods of treatment will like neutral steam inhalations with soda and sea s alt or grandmother's classic - steam inhalation over well-boiled potatoes cooked in uniform. With nasal congestion, often accompanying purulentsore throat, it is useful to breathe over a bowl of strong black tea brewed with a couple of spoons of peppermint, or over the same cool drink, in which, 1 drop each, essential oils of sage, mint, orange, thyme are added.
How to gargle with purulent sore throat
After the use of antibacterial agents, gargling with suppuration of the tonsils is in second place in importance. Not without reason, during the entire illness, doctors recommend performing procedures with a frequency of 10 to 15 times a day. How to rinse purulent sore throat? Solutions should be alternated, using, if possible, both pharmacy products, such as Furacilin or Stomatidin, and homemade antiseptics prepared according to one of the following recipes:
- 1 Grate the medium peeled beets, pour 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar into the beet “shavings” and insist the mixture for 2-3 hours. Strained juice should be gargled as often as possible - up to 8 times a day;
- brew 2 cups of boiling water, taken one teaspoon of lime and chamomile flowers, cool, strain and use for rinsing;
- Brew a third of a glass of horsetail in a thermos with 0.5 liters of boiling water, strain after 2 hours and apply in procedures;
- shredded medium leaves from a raspberry bush brew with boiling water at the rate of 1:20, insist under the lid until cool and strain;
- 3 tbsp. brew spoons of crushed plantain leaf with a quarter liter of boiling water, cool and use for treatment;
- take a teaspoon of chamomile and calendula herbs, throw them into slightly boiling water and hold on fire for about 10 minutes. After two hours, strain the broth and use.
In the absence of an allergy to honey, you can add a small coffee spoon of this fragrant delicacy to all herbal remedies for gargling. The temperature of the decoction or infusion when honey is added to it should not exceed 40 0С.
Compresses for throat with sore throat
Warming compresses on the throat with suppuration of the tonsils, this is another option for symptomatic treatment, which partially unloads the "load" of pain that accompanies the disease. The procedure does not carry a significant therapeutic load, as in the case of inhalations, but it makes it possible to refuse the use of analgesics that do not have the best effect on the body.
The following are three recipes for effective compresses that quickly relieve cutting sensations in the throat with sore throat:
- Prepare a mixture of 1 tbsp. spoons of aloe pulp, 2 tbsp. spoons of honey and 3 tbsp. spoons of vodka. Apply the resulting paste on a piece of gauze folded four times, cover with a thick cloth on top and fix the compress on the throat.
- Pour a little alcohol into a plate (up to a third of a glass), drop 1-2 drops of mint and thyme essential oils into it and soak gauze for a compress in the solution. It, only wrung out, is put on the throat, covered with a warm scarf from above.
- Cook one large potato in their skins, mash it with a fork and cool a little. Mix a third of a teaspoon of iodine and 2 teaspoons of sunflower oil into warm puree, then put the potato mass on a gauze cut and apply tosore spot.
Compresses with essential oils and alcohol, keep on the throat for no more than 20 minutes, the rest can be changed one by one, as it cools, and warm the throat with them for up to two hours in a row - there will be no harm.
Recipes for oral administration
How to treat purulent tonsillitis at home? In no case should you gargle with means intended for ingestion before swallowing them, otherwise the entire pathogenic flora, together with the disturbed purulent substance, will enter the esophagus. The solutions are made slightly warm so that they do not cause convulsive contraction of the muscles of the throat and do not irritate the mucous membrane.
Drinking formulations for quick treatment of purulent sore throat at home may be as follows.
- A large pinch of dried anise is poured with one and a half glasses of boiling water and infused for an hour. Strained infusion is taken before each meal in a small pile.
- Collection from taken 2 tbsp. spoons of plantain leaves and sage flowers brew with three cups of boiling water and then simmer over low heat under the lid for 5 minutes. After cooling and straining, the solution is consumed 3-4 times a day in a small sip.
- Five slices of dried figs should be dipped in 250-300 ml of boiling milk and, stirring, then simmer over low heat for 7 minutes. After the milk has cooled down to 35 0С, the figs are taken out and eaten separately, and then they drink all the milk. This should be done just before bedtime.
Another good and old remedy on how to cure a purulent sore throat is in almost every home and itabsolutely no need to convert into solutions or infusions - this is a mummy. Just one tablet of tar, sucked before going to bed, will strengthen the body's resistance and reduce the activity of pathogenic bacteria in the throat several times.
Medotreatment for angina
The easiest way to use honey at home for purulent sore throat is to dilute 1 teaspoon of sweetness in 200 ml of warm water. The resulting solution can not only gargle or drink it, in any quantity, but also make compresses and rubbing with it. Honey water has excellent bactericidal and regenerative properties, and a couple of drops of lemon juice added to the solution will increase the antiseptic effect of the medicine on a sore throat.
A more complex recipe with honey for the treatment of purulent tonsillitis in adults (photo presented in the article) is as follows. To prepare a honey-onion mixture, you need to brew a peeled and chopped medium onion with 2 cups of boiling water, then simmer for 15 minutes under a lid over low heat and leave warm until cool. In a filtered warm liquid, if it is intended for rinsing, add a couple of drops of orange or mint essential oil, and if they are going to drink it, 1 teaspoon of sea buckthorn oil.
Speaking of the benefits of honey, one cannot ignore the unique healing properties of fresh propolis. If there is no time to mess around with mixing complex compositions, even an unprocessed substance will do, from which you need to roll a small one, like two match heads,ball and chew it well.
For those who are not afraid to use alcohol in therapeutic mixtures, it is useful to purchase a ready-made propolis tincture in a pharmacy and, adding it a teaspoonful to half a glass of warm water, gargle with a throat solution twice a day. An alternative to such a rinse for people who do not accept alcohol formulations is oil with propolis. Prepare it like this: mix taken equally, butter and natural propolis and remove the jar of medicine in the refrigerator. Three times a day, about half a teaspoon of the product is separated from the thick creamy mass and this paste is absorbed 30–40 minutes before meals.
Aloe for sore throats
Aloe has long shown itself in folk medicine as a non-analogue bactericidal agent that simultaneously reduces the activity of pathogenic flora and has a positive effect on the overall immunity of the body. In this representative of the lily family, an almost complete composition of B vitamins is collected and, in addition, there is a very valuable crystalline substance aloin, due to which aloe has such a specific bitterness.
Aloe leaf pulp syrup, taken for purulent sore throat, can be prepared with honey or sugar.
- A half-liter jar needs to be filled up to half with three-year-old aloe leaves crushed in a blender, and from above, to the very shoulders of the jar, cover the vegetable gruel with sugar. The jar covered with gauze is kept in the cold for three days, then the contents are decanted and poured into a dark glass bottle.
- 300g mincedaloe leaves are mixed with the same amount of Cahors and 0.5 kg of honey. The mixture is laid out in a jar or a ceramic pot, the neck is tied with gauze on top and the container is removed in the cold.
The norm for a one-time intake of any of the above funds is 1 tbsp. the spoon. The number of servings during the day is from 2 to 4.
Garlic for sore throats
Garlic for sore throat is useful in itself, however, with a purulent form of the disease, when the throat is already cracking with pain, it is not easy to swallow a caustic substance. To facilitate swallowing and increase the medicinal value of garlic cloves, the product is mixed into two- or three-component formulations and taken as syrups, drinks, and medicinal pastes.
We offer several effective ways to prepare garlic mixtures for the treatment of throat:
- Pass one clove of garlic through a garlic press and stir the gruel in a glass of fresh apple juice. Boil the entire solution, remove from the stove and, after cooling, strain. The drink is drunk 1 glass twice a day.
- Chop a couple of cloves of garlic, dilute with 200 ml of bright orange carrot juice and insist for an hour. The infusion is consumed in a third of a glass three times a day, along with the pulp that has settled to the bottom.
- Put ¾ cup of chopped garlic in a liter jar and pour everything with a solution of 0.5 liters of water and apple cider vinegar taken. After five days of infusion in a dark place, a small vial of glycerin is poured into the mixture, the container is shaken, and after a day the resulting medicine is filtered. In already readysyrup add a third of a glass of linden honey. The mixture is drunk 2 teaspoons during all main meals.
In addition to natural phytoncides, garlic contains a huge amount of B vitamins - much more than you can get through regular intake of multivitamins or dietary supplements.
