Treatment according to the specific cause of the disease is a fast way to reduce the swelling of pharyngeal edema. Edema of the throat can be caused by food allergies, acute laryngitis, closed laryngeal trauma and other diseases, which need to be treated with medication and surgery. The use of drugs should follow the doctor’s instructions.
1. Food allergy: patients need to use antihistamines such as loratadine and cetirizine, mast cell stabilizers such as sodium cromoglycate and nedocromil, and glucocorticosteroids such as prednisone and hydrocortisone, as prescribed by the doctor.
2. Acute laryngitis: patients need to cooperate with the doctor to use budesonide, dexamethasone and other glucocorticoid drugs for nebulized inhalation therapy, if there is a bacterial infection, you need to comply with the doctor’s instructions to use cefixime, penicillin, azithromycin and other antibiotics. If the drug treatment is ineffective and causes severe laryngeal obstruction, tracheotomy should be considered.
3. Closed laryngeal trauma: If there is no respiratory distress, patients need to follow the medical advice to use penicillin, ceftriaxone and other antibiotics for anti-infection treatment, with the use of prednisone, hydrocortisone and other glucocorticoid hormones. Close observation of respiration is needed to prepare for tracheotomy. For patients with laryngeal cartilage fracture, arthrodesis is required. In the absence of the aforementioned conditions, anti-infective and symptomatic treatment is generally adopted.
It is recommended that patients with laryngeal edema go to the hospital to clarify the specific cause and cooperate with the doctor for active treatment to avoid delays.