Tonsil stones need to be treated according to the severity of the disease, such as stone cleaning, medication or surgical removal of tonsils.
Tonsil stones are usually secondary to chronic tonsillitis, or with tonsil crypt food residues, during the onset of the patient may appear bad breath, sore throat, cough and other clinical symptoms, the examination will find that the tonsils are red and swollen, crypts with a large amount of yellowish-white secretion accumulation phenomenon.
1. Stone cleaning: For patients with mild symptoms and small stone size, the stones can be cleaned with tweezers or spatula when they are visible to the naked eye.
2. Medication: Saline or compounded boric acid gargle can be used for local treatment to relieve symptoms. During the period of combined infection, antibiotics such as penicillin V potassium tablets should be used for anti-infection treatment.
3. For patients with more obvious symptoms and larger or more stones, doctors will recommend tonsillectomy. Tonsillectomy removes the enlarged tonsils along with the stones to achieve a cure.
If you have tonsil stones, you need to go to the ENT department of a regular hospital in a timely manner to determine the cause of the disease and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.