For the treatment of those patients who suffer from chronic angina or tonsillitis, there are several methods of treatment: antibiotic therapy, cryotherapy of the tonsils or surgery. Not every person dares to go under the surgeon's knife, so cryotherapy can rightfully be considered a gentle method of getting rid of inflamed tonsils.
Running in circles…
As a rule, patients with chronic inflammation of the tonsils, or tonsillitis, experience the following symptoms: persistent sore throat, fever, weakened immune system, weakness.
Things look a little different when a person has to undergo antibiotic therapy several times during the year in order to alleviate his condition for a while. Due to the intake of such drugs, the patient's immune system is greatly weakened, which provokes an exacerbation of chronic tonsillitis.
Therefore, recently, doctors began to recommend their patients to remove the tonsils. However, many scientists do not agree with this decision. Normally, such accumulations of lymphoid tissue are responsible for the production of antibodies and normal immunebody response to external stimuli. To date, cryotherapy of the tonsils is the safest way to prevent the development of tonsillitis.
Cryotherapy of tonsils: the essence of the method
Many patients still do not know that, in addition to the usual conservative or surgical treatment, tonsils can be cured bloodlessly and painlessly. Cryotherapy of tonsils - what is it? This method consists in the fact that the patient is cauterized with liquid nitrogen of diseased tissue, while he althy areas are not affected.
Pros of the method
For patients with chronic tonsillitis, or tonsillitis, tonsil cryotherapy is the most appropriate way to get rid of diseases. The main advantages of this method are as follows:
Speed. The entire recovery procedure, including the initial examination of the patient, takes no more than 30 minutes. The tonsils are removed under local anesthesia, so the patient does not experience any complications after using anesthesia
- Lack of pain and blood. After exposure to liquid nitrogen, scars and scars do not form on the surface of the tonsils, so a person practically does not experience pain and can return to his usual way of life immediately after cryotherapy of the tonsils. Patients' testimonials indicate that only numbness of the throat and a slight dry mouth remain in the memory of the procedure, but these signs soon disappear without a trace.
- Efficiency. Freezing the affected tissues is a very effective procedure, because due toliquid nitrogen, the affected tissues die, and he althy ones begin to work at a double speed.
Treatment of tonsils with cold
Before performing cryodestruction (cauterization with liquid nitrogen) of the tonsils, the patient's oral cavity must be carefully examined and all inflammatory processes of the mouth and teeth should be cured.
Cryotherapy of the tonsils is carried out as follows:
- The patient does not need to take a supine position, so the patient sits on a chair during the procedure.
- Before cauterization of the tonsils with liquid nitrogen, the patient's throat is treated with 1% lidocaine solution. After anesthetizing the throat, the doctor will be able to begin a procedure such as tonsil cryotherapy. Patients' feedback suggests that in addition to lidocaine, atropine is also injected into the oral cavity, so there is no gag reflex during freezing.
- After preparing the cryodestructor (a medical device for freezing), the doctor briefly applies its working surface to the diseased tissue. The entire freezing procedure lasts no more than 60 seconds, however, even in this short period of time, diseased tonsil tissues die off. This is how tonsil cryotherapy works.
- Reviews of doctors suggest that this technique is the most favorable for the whole organism as a whole, because already 24 hours after the freezing, the patient ceases to experience discomfort in the throat. The photo presented in the article shows the tonsils before and after the procedure.
Cryodestruction of tonsils:indications for the procedure
Cryotherapy of the tonsils is necessary in the following cases:
- Tonsillogenic cardiopathy. Often, patients with chronic tonsillitis may have problems with the functioning of the heart muscle, so cauterization of the tonsils is a necessity.
- Frequent sore throats. If a person gets sick 2 times a year or more, then he simply cannot do without cryotherapy of the tonsils.
- Chronic tonsillitis. Constant inflammation of the tonsils leads to the fact that the human immune system stops working properly and does not protect the body. Thanks to cryotherapy, a person not only destroys the affected tissue, but also activates he althy cells of the tonsils, as a result of which immunity is significantly increased.
- Tonsillogenic intoxication. In the chronic course of the disease in a person, not only the immune, but also the protective functions of the tonsils are violated, which in turn leads to intoxication of the body.
It is worth noting that in all these cases, antibiotic therapy becomes an ineffective method of treatment, and surgical intervention is too radical a method. That is why people began to go to clinics and carry out such a procedure as tonsil cryotherapy.
Contraindications
Any treatment of a patient has not only its indications, but also contraindications. In what situations is this procedure not performed?
- Oncological diseases.
- Chronic diseases in the acute stage.
- Diabetes mellitus of any type.
- Serious disorders of the nervous system, as well as diseases of the central nervous system.
- Disorders of the circulatory system, especially with regard to blood clotting.
- Pathologies of the cardiovascular system.
In addition, this procedure is not recommended for children under 12 years of age. For younger patients, experts advise a special freezing of the tonsils - cryo-irrigation with liquid nitrogen vapor, which allows you to achieve the same results that cryotherapy gives tonsils. Indications and contraindications for this procedure are the same.
What the patient gets as a result
With short-term exposure to cold on the inflamed areas of the tonsils, the pathologically altered tissue dies off completely, which leads to the restoration of the tonsils. Under the influence of low temperatures in the inflamed areas of a person, not only all damaged tissue is removed, but also cell regeneration occurs, which ultimately leads to a complete restoration of the protective and immune functions of the tonsils.
Cryotherapy is a treatment method that allows the patient to avoid surgery, permanently get rid of chronic tonsillitis and cure diseased tonsils.
