Tonsillitis Symptoms, Causes and Treatment by Mobidoctor Online GP

For the treatment of tonsillitis at your home, get the appointment of General Physician today.

Our doctors will prescribe the medicines in accordance with your illness, and we will also provide the medicines from our pharmacy for you.

Tonsillitis provides protection for you against infection. Tonsillitis contains infection after they get infected so it. This does not spread anywhere else. It is more common in children, but adults can also get affected to it. Tonsillitis causes uncomfortable inflammation and redness.

Uncomfortable swelling, sore throat, redness are among the most common symptoms of tonsillitis. However, our General Physicians can help if you discuss any of the following symptoms;

• Coughing

• Nausea

• Difficulty in swallowing

• Lump in the throat ( which can be removed)

• Swelling in glands

• Nasal, lost, croaky and hoarse voice

• Symptoms of flu-like: headache, fever, earache or tiredness

Our doctors check for visual sings during the consultation, signs as tonsils covered in the small coating, white spots or redness.

The conventional treatment for tonsillitis is getting plenty of sleep and rest and keeping yourself hydrated. This treatment is the same as treatment for other viruses. Tonsillitis can be difficult if it is causing pain while you swallow.

Another option for treating tonsillitis can be medication. It mostly affects young people. Youngsters within the age of 16 should not be treated with aspirin. Our doctors prescribe antibiotics, in case of severe symptoms or if tonsillitis is caused by bacteria. Doctors recommend an operation for taking out tonsils only in rare cases, where the situation is serious, not all the time.

Some suggestions indicate that this is the option if you have tonsillitis:

• Minimum three tonsillitis bouts each year for the last three years

• Minimum five tonsillitis bouts each year for last two years

• Minimum seven tonsillitis bouts since the previous 12 months

If you face any such problem, our doctor can discuss it with you through different options available for surgery.

Different viruses commonly cause it. This indicates why you get flu like symptoms like flu, as flu is among the virusevirusess that contributes to the cause of tonsillitis. Tonsillitis is not contagious, but the viruses that cause tonsillitis are infectious. This virus can be passed through by direct or indirect contact. For instance, direct contact is you get affected by someone's coughs or sneezes, and indirect contact is you get caught by the virus through touching the surface someone with the virus has already touched.

Sometimes, tonsillitis can be caused by bacteria with the name of streptococcus. . One way for identifying the cause of tonsillitis is by checking to breath. Bad breath is a sign that your tonsillitis is because of bacteria, while the virus will not affect in this way.