Symptoms of epiglottitis mainly include systemic symptoms, dysphagia, dyspnea, sore throat and so on.
1. Systemic symptoms: in severe cases, there are chills, high fever, general discomfort, loss of appetite, generalized pain. In children, failure can occur rapidly.
2. Dysphagia: It happens very quickly. In severe cases, choking and coughing on drinking water, and salivating with the mouth open. In mild cases, the pharynx is blocked by a foreign body. Difficulty in opening the mouth may occasionally occur.
3. Dyspnea: mainly inspiratory dyspnea, accompanied by high-pitched inspiratory whistling and expiratory snoring. In pediatric and adult outbreaks, the disease develops very quickly and can rapidly cause asphyxia. Because the vocal cords are often not involved, so there is generally no hoarseness, over only vocal slurred.
4. Pain in the throat: in addition to infants and young children can not complain of pain, most patients have pain in the throat, exacerbated by swallowing. But the color of the pharyngeal mucosa is still normal.
If you have symptoms of physical discomfort, you should go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of the physician, to give targeted treatment after the cause is clear.