Treatment of acute and chronic tonsillitis at home with folk remedies
Treatment of tonsillitis at home is possible only in tandem with complex therapy, including the use of potent medicines. The use of any means of alternative and alternative medicine is permissible only after determining the pathogen and consulting a dentist. There are a number of types of sore throats that cannot be dealt with at home on their own.
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Causes of chronic tonsillitis
Tonsillitis is a disease characterized by acute or chronic inflammation of the tonsils. Usually it occurs due to pathological division of streptococci or staphylococci. Some of them live calmly in the human body in a vegetative state, various factors can provoke the activity of bacteria:
- thermal or chemical burn;
- malnutrition;
- general and local hypothermia;
- mechanical trauma;
- decreased immunity;
- severe stress: with nervous excitement, immunity decreases faster, and there is a risk of contracting an infection;
- mercury vapor poisoning;
- caries.
In addition to bacterial, tonsillitis can be of a viral and fungal nature. The exact form of the pathogen can be determined using differential diagnosis in the course of laboratory tests: UAC and smear from the throat. If you want to determine the pathogen quickly, use express diagnostics. Based on the results of the examination, the doctor prescribes certain medications.
Treatment with folk remedies without preliminary diagnosis can lead to even greater reproduction of pathogenic microorganisms, serious complications (generalization of infection) and the transition of the disease to the chronic stage. Therefore, the use of folk remedies cannot be considered the basis of therapy for angina, and self-medication and taking antibacterial medications without a doctor's prescription is completely life-threatening.
How to quickly relieve tonsillitis symptoms
With angina, the throat usually hurts. If the pain is not severe, you can try to drown it with ordinary mint candies: Hols, Strepsils. But they are needed only as a temporary anesthesia until a doctor visits and prescribes medication.
You can also relieve pain with:
Spray Joks Czech-made IVAX Pharmaceuticals in pink and purple packaging (Joks brand Teva ineffective).- The drug Tonsilgon N.
- Pharyngosept, which should be taken every 2 hours. Today, the drug Lizobact is actively advertised, but in reality it differs little from the traditional Faringosept, and costs almost 2 times more expensive.
- Miramistin or furatsillina solution.
After the use of these drugs, the pain should go away quickly, but it is impossible to continue treating tonsillitis at home, since it is contraindicated to use other (non-analgesic) medications without consulting a doctor. After stopping the pain, it is recommended to consult a therapist or otolaryngologist, since treatment of angina definitely requires taking antibiotics - tonsillitis is not treated with peppermint candies and sprays.
General Tonsillitis Treatment Tips
If you need to quickly and without consequences cure acute tonsillitis at home, then you should adhere to the classic recommendations:
- avoid stress;
- drink a lot of plain water or non-hot tea with lemon;
- observe bed rest;
- eat warm and soft foods.
Even in the absence of temperature with angina, it is not recommended to leave the house and even get up in the early days of the disease.
Herbal recipes for decoctions and infusions for tonsillitis
It is best to treat tonsillitis at home with the help of infusions and decoctions of herbs, since they relieve inflammation and pain.
Yarrow infusion
To prepare the treatment solution, you must:
- Take 2 tablespoons of the plant in dried form.
- Pour a glass of boiled water.
- Leave to infuse for 60 minutes.
- Filter the resulting product through gauze or strainer.
It is recommended to rinse a sore throat with yarrow infusion 3-4 times a day.
Lime-chamomile decoction
To prepare the solution, you need to take:
- 30 grams of dry chamomile;
- 20 grams of oak bark;
- 10 grams of linden inflorescence;
- 600 grams of boiling water.
The resulting ingredients need to be mixed, put on the stove and darkened on fire, not bringing to a boil. Then the solution will need to be filtered and cooled. The finished product should be gargled every hour until the acute symptoms are relieved. Such a decoction can cure even the most advanced forms of angina.
Chamomile Gargle
Take 1 teaspoon of calendula and chamomile, then pour the mixture into a glass of hot water and cover tightly. The solution will be infused for a third of an hour, after which it must be filtered and cooled. Ready means gargle several times a day.
Honey treatment
Honey and its derivatives are effective in controlling tonsillitis. There are many recipes based on honey, with which you can cure tonsillitis for a long time, below are just a few of them.
Propolis
Propolis is a unique folk remedy for the surgical treatment of chronic and acute tonsillitis at home, suitable for the treatment of tonsillitis in pregnant women and children.
You can use ordinary propolis (a piece of 1-2 grams) as a chewing gum, you need to chew it for an hour. You can also dissolve 40 grams of fresh propolis in 200 milliliters of pure medical alcohol. For each rinse, you should take 10 drops of tincture, add them to 100 milliliters of warm distilled water and gargle with it. With this tincture, you can cure a mild form of tonsillitis in just a week.
Honey with ginger
Honey with ginger is an effective therapeutic tool that can be used in case of serious inflammatory processes in the throat:
- You need to combine 1 teaspoon of honey and fresh ginger juice or ginger pulp obtained by scrolling the ginger root through a meat grinder, mix them to a pasty mass, which should be taken 3-4 times a day.
- It is required to mix 4 cups of water and 200 grams of peeled ginger, boil for a quarter of an hour, cool gently, add 3 tablespoons of flower honey and gargle with a throat.
- We need to take 3-4 tablespoons of lemon juice, 3 tablespoons of flower honey and ginger root (5-7 cm). Ginger should be chopped, mixed with other ingredients and use the resulting mixture every 3 hours.
Milk with honey
Two tablespoons of honey must be dissolved in 200 milliliters of warm milk. To enhance the therapeutic effect, 20 grams of melted natural butter should be added to the drink. The resulting solution should be taken half a cup 2 times a day. It quickly and effectively acts on the site of inflammation, while simultaneously raising the patient's immunity.
You can not combine honey with hot milk, as it loses its healing properties at temperatures above 40 ° C.
Treatment of tonsillitis in children
If the child has been diagnosed with tonsillitis, then mandatory medication is required.Before you begin to treat tonsillitis in a child at home, you should consult a pediatrician, otolaryngologist or immunologist.
In addition to traditional medicines that are sold in the pharmacy, for the treatment of tonsillitis in children, they use:
- aloe juice;
- decoction of myrtle;
- decoction of sea buckthorn;
- Althea infusion;
- rosehip infusion.
If the child is not yet old enough and does not know how to gargle himself, you can lubricate her tonsils with a herbal decoction. Some decoctions the baby can drink a little.
In any case, it is impossible to warm children with angina and apply steam inhalation for their treatment, since there is a risk of even greater inflammation and the development of complications.
Treating young children at home is not possible a priori. If a child under the age of three has been diagnosed with angina, he needs the supervision of medical personnel.
Treatment of chronic tonsillitis
In case of exacerbation of the chronic form of tonsillitis, in addition to the above-mentioned infusions of herbs and honey mixtures, other means can be used:
- In a glass of water should dissolve a teaspoon of soda, the resulting solution must be thoroughly gargled.
- It is necessary to mix salt in 1 liter of warm water (about a teaspoon) and add a few drops of ordinary iodine. The tool will need to gargle 2-3 times a day.
- It is necessary to take 3 cloves of garlic, crush, add 200-300 milliliters of warm milk to them, mix, insist 30-40 minutes, pass through the filter and rinse the throat with a solution.
It is impossible to cure chronic tonsillitis at home, using only traditional medicine, in both adults and children. Such “medicines” only relieve some symptoms, eliminate inflammation and quickly “euthanize” pathogenic microorganisms, but do not completely destroy them.
Whether it is worth treating acute or chronic tonsillitis at home, each patient decides for himself. The outcome of such therapy depends on the severity of the pathology and the presence of concomitant diseases. To persons suffering from immunodeficiency or having undergone tuberculosis, it is extremely dangerous to experiment with treatment with alternative and traditional medicine.
