What medicine is effective for tonsillitis?

Many people have experienced symptoms of tonsillitis. Generally, after encountering symptoms of tonsillitis, most people may think about how to relieve it and how to take medicine to treat it. Generally, you can take some antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs appropriately. If that doesn’t work, you can choose surgical treatment.

Drug treatment

Acute tonsillitis is contagious and should be isolated appropriately. Because this disease is mostly caused by streptococcal infection, the use of antibiotics and sulfonamides has a better therapeutic effect. Penicillin is the first choice antibiotic. Those who are allergic to penicillin can choose erythromycin, lincomycin, etc. People with high fever, headache and body aches can choose antipyretic and analgesic drugs such as aspirin. If the condition does not improve after 2-3 days of treatment, viral or other bacterial infection should be considered, and antiviral drugs, sensitive antibiotics or sulfonamides should be used instead. Adrenal cortical hormones such as prednisone and dexamethasone may be used as appropriate. In addition, you should pay attention to rest, have bowel movements, drink plenty of water, eat cold liquid food, and take appropriate amounts of antipyretic and analgesic drugs, mouthwashes, etc. Most patients can recover in about 1 week.

Acute suppurative tonsillitis: You can gargle with Dobel's solution once every 4 hours. Hot compress or ultrashort wave thermal therapy on both sides of the mandibular angle has an anti-inflammatory effect.

Surgery

There is no definitely effective conservative treatment for chronic tonsillitis, but some people have tried traditional Chinese medicine, local medication for the tonsils, freezing, physical therapy, etc. Tonsillectomy may also be performed. In the past, tonsillectomy was very common to prevent serious complications caused by tonsil lesions. In recent years, as people have come to realize that tonsils have immune functions, there has been controversy over whether tonsillectomy is beneficial. Therefore, the number of surgeries has decreased compared to before. There are also different opinions on surgical indications, surgical effects, and whether tonsillectomy will affect the body's immune function. According to recent studies, tonsils are involved in humoral immunity and cellular immunity, and can produce B lymphocytes that synthesize various immunoglobulins.