Follicular sore throat - treatment

To properly cure any disease, it is necessary to accurately determine the cause and location of the focus of the disease. Depending on this, several types of the same pathology are distinguished, the treatment of which may differ.

How to recognize a follicular sore throat?

Often diagnosed follicular angina, requires mandatory antibiotic treatment, but what drugs to take, should only decide the doctor. You can determine such an angina by the following signs:

• poorly knocked out fever and chills;
• discomfortable sensations in the mouth appear on the rise: dryness, perspiration, coughing and acute pain when swallowing;
• edema and redness of the mucosa of almond arch;
• education on the tonsils in the field of lacunae of white or yellowish abscesses, which, when ruptured, cover all the tonsils with a touch.

The disease is accompanied by a general malaise, and this:

• weakness;
• severe intoxication of the body;
• pain in the heart, lower back, muscles and joints;
• enlargement of lymph nodes located on the neck.

How and what to treat a follicular sore throat?

There are certain recommendations, the implementation of which makes it possible to cure this disease in 5-7 days. It:

1. Bed rest. You need to keep it for at least 5 days.
2. Reception of antibiotics. As a rule, take Amocyclav or Amoxicillin , penicillin. If no improvement occurs within 2 days, they must be changed to Sumamed or Ceftriaxone. The duration of the course should be at least 10 days.
3. Symptomatic treatment. It is assumed that the temperature is brought down by means of antipyretic drugs based on ibuprofen or paracetamol after increasing to 38.5 ° C, when coughing occurs, the use of antitussive drugs.
4. Antimicrobial treatment. Irrigation with aerosols is recommended (Ingalipt or Geksoral). It is better not to lubricate the throat so as not to spread the infection to a larger area.
5. Gargling. It is necessary to do the procedures 6-10 times a day with solutions that help purge tonsils from pus and disinfect the oral cavity. For this purpose, you can use a saline solution, Furacilin, Chlorophyllipt or herbal decoctions (from chamomile, sage).
6. Deposition of analgesic tablets. Fyringosept is a good medicine.
7. High-grade food. But the food should be warm and soft, well crushed, so as not to injure the sore throat.
8. Daily fluent drink. It must be room temperature. Drink at least 1 time per hour, especially during the fever.

Supplement the treatment can be the intake of vitamins and immunomodulators. They must be used to accelerate the recovery process.

Anti-histamines are also used to relieve swelling, but this is not a prerequisite.

Treatment of follicular sore throat folk remedies

Of course, people who do not use medicines try to treat any illness with folk methods. But not in the case of follicular angina, the basis of therapeutic therapy of which are antibiotics. They should not be canceled, but the medicines used to disinfect the tonsils can be replaced with vegetable ones. For example, to rinse your throat, you can use the following recipe:

1. Take 1 large beet, 1 tbsp. l. apple cider vinegar (6%).
2. Then we rub the beetroot on the grater.
3. 1 a full glass of the received weight we connect with vinegar and we put in a dark place for 4 hours.
4. After that, the juice should be squeezed out through the cheesecloth and rinsed with this liquid after 3 hours.

This remedy will perfectly combat the microbes in the throat.

Many are interested in whether infectious angina is contagious or not. Doctors warn: yes. Therefore, a person, during treatment should not contact other people without a cotton-gauze dressing, since the infection is easily transmitted by airborne droplets during communication.

Even if you are already without a temperature, the treatment of follicular sore throat should be 10 days, despite a significant improvement in the patient's condition.