Pediatric acute pharyngitis is an acute inflammatory disease caused by lesions of the pharyngeal mucosa and submucosal and lymphatic tissue, often secondary to acute rhinitis or acute tonsillitis or as part of an upper respiratory tract infection. It is also often a local manifestation of systemic disease or a precursor to acute infectious disease. When a child’s systemic or local resistance decreases due to cold, pathogenic microorganisms take advantage of the situation and cause acute pharyngitis. Malnutrition, frequent exposure to high temperatures, dust, and harmful irritant gases can easily cause chronic pharyngitis to occur.
Pathological causes
1, lifestyle factors
Many children’s habits are not very good, for example, do not often wash their hands, often pick their noses, do not brush their teeth before going to bed at night, experts say these are incorrect, parents can not spoil their children, to urge children to develop good habits, so that not only their future life is beneficial, more beneficial to their health.
2, environmental factors
Children in the city would have to inhale too much exhaust fumes, pollution, etc.. So at home or school to ensure that the child is in the room fresh air, if open air conditioning, it is necessary to regularly open the window to replace the fresh air, experts recommend, for example, fog and other weather can be given to the child with a mask to go out.
3, other disease factors
Children suffer from other adjacent organ diseases, such as rhinitis, otitis media, and parents do not pay too much attention to this time, and therefore induced pediatric pharyngitis.
Similar to adults, it often occurs in combination with acute infectious diseases or upper respiratory tract infections. It is mostly secondary to infectious respiratory diseases such as rhinitis, pharyngitis, and upper respiratory tract infections. It can be a precursor disease of acute infectious diseases such as influenza, pneumonia, measles, chickenpox, whooping cough, scarlet fever, etc.
Symptoms
1. Hoarseness: Patients with pediatric laryngitis will experience hoarseness, and in severe cases, it can even affect normal vocalization.
2. Swelling and pain in the larynx: Usually children feel pain in the larynx and a foreign body sensation, which is more serious when vocalizing.
3. Sputum: Due to the inflammation of the larynx, the secretions in the larynx increase, so the child always has a cough with a lot of sputum.
Disease Hazards
1. Hoarseness and even permanent voice change
Pediatric laryngitis patients mostly have the symptom of hoarseness, some parents think it is just the child’s poor immunity, often caused by the cold, if not timely treatment may even make the child permanent voice change.
2. Complications
If children with pediatric pharyngitis are not treated in time, it can lead to rhinitis, otitis media and other adjacent organ diseases, causing a vicious circle.
Treatment methods
1, the line of symptomatic treatment, smooth stool, drink more plain water.
2.Apply antibiotics (penicillin, vincristine), sulfonamides and antivirals (such as morpholine bisphosphonate, amantadine, viralin, etc.) to those with fever.
3, local available 1: 5000 furacilin liquid or compound borax liquid gargle, Dulaifen, chlorhexidine, mint tablets or containing iodine tablets containing, or antibiotics plus hormone nebulized inhalation.
4, Chinese herbal medicine treatment: heavy malignant cold, light fever, no sweating, floating pulse can be used for internal consumption of ephedra soup. If the fever is heavy and the malignant cold is light, Yin Qiao San can be taken internally, or Niuhuang Detoxification Pill, Detoxification and Anti-inflammatory Pill, and Liushen Pill can be taken internally. Topical use of ice borax or tin type of san blowing into the throat. Acupuncture cheek car, Hegu, Shaoshang or for the jaw angle closure, can make the inflammation subside, pain relief effect is particularly good.
Prevention methods
1, life should be regular, moderate, regular living, sleep at night and get up early, avoid getting cold. During sleep, avoid blowing convective wind.
2, appropriate to eat more pears, raw radish, plums and other fruits, dried fruit, to enhance the maintenance of the throat.
3, usually strengthen outdoor activities, see more sunlight, enhance physical fitness, improve the ability to resist disease.
4, maintain oral hygiene, develop the habit of brushing teeth and rinsing mouth in the morning, after meals and before going to bed,.
5, pay attention to climate change, timely increase and decrease clothing, avoid cold and heat.
6.During the epidemic of cold and flu, go out as little as possible to prevent infection.