Chronic tonsillitis can flare up acutely whenever there is a sudden change in temperature or a change in season and resistance decreases. Do you often have recurrent sore throat and fever? What are the complications of repeated acute inflammation of the tonsils? Are you faced with the difficult decision of removing your tonsils due to heart or kidney disorders? With the above questions. Etiology Chronic tonsillitis is caused by recurrent attacks of acute tonsillitis. The most common pathogens are streptococci and staphylococci. Symptoms The main clinical manifestations are recurrent sore throat and fever. In addition, there may be throat discomfort, foreign body sensation, dryness, itching, irritating cough, and bad breath. Acute attacks may be accompanied by headache, weakness of limbs, easy fatigue or low-grade fever. Hazards Chronic tonsillitis can not only cause infections in neighboring organs, leading to otitis media, sinusitis, larynx, trachea and bronchitis. More importantly, it can become a focus of infection in the human body, causing systemic diseases such as nephritis, arthritis and endocarditis. Because, the tissue structure of tonsils has similarity with the structure of kidneys, joints, heart and other important organs, when tonsils become foci of repeated infections, they produce antigen-antibody complexes running in the blood circulation, precipitate in the terminal vascular area of organs and induce inflammatory reactions in the corresponding organs. Diagnosis A history of repeated episodes of sore throat and fever is an important basis for the diagnosis of chronic tonsillitis. Usually chronic tonsillitis can lead to tonsillar hypertrophy; however, in some patients, due to repeated inflammation, which causes tissue fibrosis, the tonsils instead shrink. Therefore, the diagnosis of chronic tonsillitis cannot be based on the presence or absence of tonsillar hypertrophy. Treatment There is no special medical treatment for chronic tonsillitis. It may be beneficial to participate in physical exercise to enhance physical fitness and resistance to disease, and to take vitamin C and cod liver oil. However, tonsillectomy is the most important treatment for chronic tonsillitis. What are the misconceptions about chronic tonsillitis? 1, should not be removed tonsils were cut: in clinical work, often encountered some chronic pharyngitis or simple tonsillar hypertrophy of patients were removed tonsils, the results of the surgery symptoms not only no relief, but will aggravate. Therefore, clinicians should not only correctly understand chronic tonsillitis, but also strictly grasp the indications for surgery. 2, many people are worried that after the removal of tonsils, the immunity will be reduced. In the future, there will often be upper respiratory tract infections, and it is difficult to control them. In fact, these worries are not necessary. The palatine tonsils are the lymphatic tissue of the pharynx, which has a certain immune function and a certain defense against upper and lower respiratory tract diseases, but this role of the tonsils will gradually decrease or even fade with age. After the age of 5 to 6 years, the immune function of the tonsils is gradually replaced by other organs. Repeated inflammation of the tonsils causes fibrosis of the tonsils, at which point the tonsils not only lose their defensive role, but also engulf bacteria that multiply in the crypt of the gland, inducing recurrent attacks of acute tonsillitis. The tonsils at this time, not only have no important immune function, but on the contrary are more harmful to the human body and safer after removal. It should be said that removing the tonsils due to chronic tonsillitis is more beneficial than harmful.