Tonsil stones, which can be handled by applying cotton swabs to build up pressure or using tweezers, are generally difficult to remove on your own.
Patients suffering from tonsil stones should eat a light diet and avoid spicy and irritating foods. For small stones a specialized doctor will need to remove them with pliers or a spatula, and they can also be removed with an oral irrigator. For stones with more particles or larger stones that do not respond well to non-surgical treatment, tonsillectomy or incision and extraction can be used.
Tonsil stone is due to a variety of reasons to increase the tonsil secretion, tonsil crypt mouth obstruction, so that the drainage is blocked, food debris, shed epithelium and bacterial debris formed by the cheese-like material can not be discharged in time, long-term accumulation in the crypt and the formation of a kind of deposit.
When the stone is small, the patient may have no obvious discomfort. As the stones grow in size or increase in number, patients may experience sore throat, itchy throat, foreign body sensation in the throat, repeated coughing, bad breath and other symptoms.
If you need to treat tonsil stones, you should go to a regular hospital, under the guidance of a professional doctor, standardized treatment, not self-treatment, so as not to aggravate the condition.