What medication to take for swollen and painful tonsils

Patients with tonsil swelling and pain condition, often occurs tonsil acute inflammation, infection of the condition, often need to take antibiotic drugs to treat and improve. Commonly used penicillin or cephalosporin antibiotics, patients can take amoxicillin capsules, cefprozil tablets, cefixime dispersible tablets, etc., but also oral levofloxacin tablets, roxithromycin capsules and so on. Patients also often need to use proprietary Chinese medicines that have the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, such as Pu Dilan Anti-inflammatory Oral Liquid, Yicheng Capsule, Liushen Capsule, etc. Some patients may develop purulent tonsillar infection, which often requires further infusion of anti-infective treatment, and some patients may further develop peritonsillitis, peritonsillar abscess and other local complications, which may require further puncture and suction or incision and drainage of the abscess.