What should I do if my child's tonsils are repeatedly inflamed? How harmful is it if my child's tonsils are repeatedly inflamed?

Children often catch colds and fevers due to tonsillitis, which makes parents worried and distressed.

In fact, as economic conditions are getting better and better, parents' love for their children is indispensable. "Eating delicious food and drinking spicy food" is yes, including some unhealthy fried foods, puffed foods, lack of physical exercise and abuse of antibiotics and hormones, which destroy immunity and cause children's physique to get worse and worse, and more and more children suffer from tonsillitis.

It is worth noting that acute tonsillitis can cause abnormal reactions and is accompanied by rheumatic heart disease and acute glomerulonephritis, so parents must remain vigilant.

Why do tonsils become inflamed?

Tonsils are an important part of the human immune system, located on both sides of the throat. Like two guards, they guard the throat, protect the respiratory and digestive tracts, prevent bacterial invasion, produce immune bodies, produce lymphocytes, and transport them into the blood. They are the body's natural barrier and the first line of defense against respiratory infections.

Because some children have poor physical constitution and low immunity, they are unable to resist viral and bacterial invasion and are prone to colds and fevers, which leads to frequent inflammation of the tonsils. Repeated inflammation of the tonsils will hinder the excretion of tonsil toxins, aggravating tonsillitis and fever.

Tonsils belong to "tonsils" in traditional Chinese medicine, which are divided into acute tonsils and chronic tonsils. The etiology and pathogenesis of acute tonsils: the throat belongs to the lung and stomach, and the wind and heat evil invades. Eating hot pot, fried, spicy, and deep-fried foods causes heat steaming in the lungs and stomach, and the evil inside and outside are entangled, the body fluid is hot, and it is fried into phlegm, and the phlegm fire evil causes redness, swelling, and pain in the tonsils.

Causes of chronic tonsillitis: Children's internal organs are weak, their physical form and qi are insufficient, they are easily invaded by external evils, and they are prone to colds and fevers. The abuse of antibiotics and hormones destroys children's pure yang body, leading to lung and kidney yin deficiency, lung yin deficiency, inability to transport body fluids upward, endogenous virtual heat, tonsil burns, kidney yin deficiency, loss of nourishment to the throat, and virtual fire that circulates through the meridians and forms tonsils. Some acute tonsillitis is transformed into chronic due to incomplete treatment.

2. Prevention and treatment of tonsillitis

According to the syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine, acute tonsillitis, the initial evil is still on the surface, mainly lung heat symptoms, with wind dispersing, detoxification, and swallowing as the treatment principles. Prescription medicine Shufeng Qingre Decoction: 10 grams of Schizonepeta, 10 grams of Saposhnikovia, 10 grams of Burdock, 5 grams of Licorice, 10 grams of Honeysuckle, 10 grams of Forsythia, 10 grams of Scutellaria, 10 grams of Trichosanthes, 10 grams of Scrophularia, 10 grams of Platycodon, 10 grams of Fritillaria. Waiting for the composition of traditional Chinese medicine.

If the pathogenic heat spreads to the middle part of the body and the stomach is hot, the treatment principle is to expel heat and detoxify, and to relieve diaphragm and swelling. Prescription: Qingyan Li Ge Tang: 10g of Forsythia suspensa, 10g of Honeysuckle, 10g of Gardenia, 10g of Scutellaria baicalensis, 5g of Menthus fragrans, 10g of Saposhnikovia divaricata, 10g of Nepeta tenuifolia, 10g of Rhubarb, 10g of Sodium Sulfate, 5g of Licorice, 10g of Atractylodes macrocephala. Other Chinese medicines can be added or subtracted.

Chronic tonsillitis is mostly caused by lung and kidney yin deficiency and lung yin deficiency. The principle is to nourish yin and clear the lungs, and to promote fluid and moisten dryness. Prescription: Zhibai Dihuang Decoction: 10g of Anemarrhena, 10g of Phellodendron, 15g of Rehmannia, 10g of Cornus officinalis, 10g of Huaishan, 10g of Poria, 10g of Moutan Bark, and 10g of Alisma.

Whether it is acute tonsillitis or chronic tonsillitis, dialectical treatment should be added or subtracted according to symptoms, acute tonsillitis, stomach fire obstruction, should be used, and heat detoxification is the best. Chronic tonsillitis, kidney yin deficiency, nourishing yin and reducing fire, clearing the throat has a good effect.

Daily health care methods for patients with acute tonsillitis:

1. Take 10 grams of Achyranthes bidentata and make tea once a day for a week. It has the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and clearing the throat.

2. Boil 100 grams of sugarcane and 50 grams of Imperata root in water and use it as tea, which has the effect of clearing heat and moistening dryness.

3. Boil 100 grams of burdock in water or soup to clear away heat and relieve sore throat.

Take 4 or 5 large olives, make tea with them, add brown sugar, remove the core and skin, and eat them together with the flesh to clear away heat and relieve sore throat.

Daily health care methods for patients with chronic tonsillitis:

1. 5 bamboo bees, 1 snow pear, 30 grams of snow fungus, and steamed rock sugar. After steaming, take the sugar water with snow pear and snow fungus for a week, which has the effects of nourishing lung yin, reducing false fire, and relieving sore throat.

2. Boil 20 grams of Scrophularia, 30 grams of Rehmannia and 20 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus in water and take it as tea once a day for a week.

According to the TCM theory that "positive energy exists within the body and evil cannot enter", we should actively exercise, strengthen our physical fitness, improve our resistance, not abuse antibiotics and hormones, choose TCM treatment, drink plenty of water, pay attention to oral hygiene, and avoid spicy, fried and other hot foods.

Author: He Yuzhang

Chief Physician of Dermatology/Andrology/TCM Internal Medicine Department of Gushengtang Chinese Medicine Hospital

Introduction: Member of the Dermatology Committee of Guangzhou Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, member of the Dermatology Committee of Guangdong Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, former director of the Dermatology Department of Tianhe District Chronic Disease Prevention and Treatment Center of Guangzhou, and Professor Lin Ze, a dermatology master of Jinan University for 15 years.

Expertise: 1. Expert in combining Chinese and Western medicine, using acupuncture and other therapies to comprehensively treat skin diseases and sexually transmitted diseases such as eczema dermatitis, urticaria, acne, seborrheic dermatitis, chloasma, psoriasis zoster, hair loss, ichthyosis, skin tumors, etc. In-depth research; 2. In-depth research on male diseases such as male infertility, prostatitis, sexual dysfunction, genital ulcers, etc.; 3. Treatment and conditioning of miscellaneous medical diseases such as colds and coughs, high blood pressure, low back pain, headaches, and arthritis in the elderly.

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