Keep Hygiene, and avoid tonsillitis

Do you often feel sore throat, difficult to swallow, headache, fever and loss of voice? This situation if often happens will certainly interfere with our daily activities.

Prof. DR. Dr. Suprihati, Sp THT-KL (K) MSc. Explain some of the above health disorders, tend to lead to the occurrence of tonsillitis or also called tonsillitis is inflammation in the tonsils caused by viral or bacterial infections.

These bacteria or viruses enter the body through the nose or mouth and the tonsils act as filters enveloping harmful organisms with white blood cells This will cause a mild infection of your tonsils, which will trigger the immune system to form antibodies to the nfections in the future come.

However, sometimes the tonsils are overwhelmed with bacterial or viral infections. This is what causes tonsillitis. Excessive excessive tonsils often cause acute infections such as painful swallowing, snoring, stop breathing during sleep, lethargy and difficulty thinking. To ascertain if your tonsils are infected then you can undergo a throat swab test.

With this simple test, your doctor will rub a kind of sterile gauze on the back of your throat to get a saliva sample. This test is not painful, but it can cause you a little choked. Samples that have been taken will be checked in the lab to see whether or not there is a streptococcal bacteria. Test results can be seen in minutes or hours, depending on the test method used. If the test shows positive results, you need to take antibiotics to treat the infection you are experiencing.

If the tonsils are not great enough to drink antibiotics alone can heal itself even though there are manifestations of fever. In more severe conditions there will be abscesses or severe pain, swallowing pain, unable to speak even to ngeces. In this condition can be given antibiotics and in remove pus. If in the future the abscess recurs again it is recommended for surgery. One of the causes of the occurrence of tonsils is a factor of poor sanitation.

Therefore to prevent it can be done with frequent hand washing. When using soap and water wet hands with warm running water and use liquid soap or clean bar soap, rub until frothy. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Pour about ½ teaspoon of cleaning material into your hands.

Rub your hands together, so that the cleaning fluid smears the surface of your hands, until the liquid is dry. In addition you can also familiarize yourself when coughing or sneezing use your tissue or arm. Do not use drinking glasses and cutlery to get together. Avoid being close to a sick person. Find a daycare practice practicing hygiene policy and ask that sick children stay home.