Tonsillitis or sore throat is a common infection in school aged children, most of the time is viral and not bacterial and no need to take antibiotics. watch the full video for all the details. Until I see again, I would like to wish you, a happy healthy life.
Hi my name is dr. anna do tonsil have any benefits normally when viruses and bacteria entered the mouth they are attacked and destroyed by the white blood cells in the tonsils so the tonsils play a major role as the first line of defense tonsils is part of the throat acute tonsillitis is a sudden infection of the tonsils it is most common in school-aged children
Especially in the winter typically this infection is spread between people through the air with a close contact it’s symptoms may include sore throat and occasionally eirik fever enlarged tonsils with white spots on them with difficulty swallowing and swollen lymph nose or glands around the neck most of the time symptoms may resolve within three days to a maximum of
One week in over fifty to seventy-five percent of the cases tonsillitis is caused by a virus with other less cases caused by a bacteria most commonly known as streptococcus which we call it strep throat it is important to know that antibiotics don’t kill viruses and are only good to kill bacteria sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish between viral and bacterial
Infection when we examine the patient we usually take a sample from the fluid on the tonsil to do a rapid strep test which we can get the result in 15 minutes also we can do a conformation test called throat culture how do we treat it most efforts involve improving symptoms by using paracetamol and ibuprofen to relieve the pain but if strep bacteria is confirmed
Then yet the use of antibiotic by mouth is recommended in severe cases when the patient cannot swallow or in the presence of an abscess around the tonsils which is a serious complication then it is advised to give the antibiotics through the vein there is a miss concept for the tendency to have the tonsils removed in childhood which is wrong the only indication for
Surgery if the patient is having a recurrent documented strep throat infection five to six times per year finally my advice to patients with tonsillitis please don’t assume every time you have a sore throat that is caused by bacteria and to take antibiotics on your own most of the time it is caused by a virus and will go away on its own without taking antibiotics
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Sore throat: Do I need Antibiotics? By Dr. Amer Helbaoui – د. عامر حلباوي
