Can suppurating tonsils cause stomach pain?

Pus-filled tonsils, or suppurative tonsillitis, may cause stomach pain in infants and young children, while adults usually do not experience stomach pain. When a patient develops symptoms of tonsil suppuration, it is usually caused by purulent tonsillitis. If infants and young children with suppurative tonsillitis, children with suppurative tonsillitis often have systemic symptoms, such as fever, which can cause gastrointestinal reactions, and convulsions, vomiting, lethargy and other symptoms, in addition to the bacterial pus plugs in the tonsils, if swallowed into the digestive tract, it will cause indigestion tummy ache symptoms. Adults suffering from purulent tonsillitis, usually do not appear the phenomenon of stomach pain, the patient will appear pharyngeal pain, reflex earache, dysphagia and other symptoms. Accompanied by fever, chills, dizziness, headache and other symptoms, there are also patients will appear loss of appetite, limb weakness, peripheral discomfort and other symptoms. Infants and young children with purulent tonsillitis may experience stomach pain. It is recommended that patients with purulent tonsillitis go to the hospital in time and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.