Tonsillar hypertrophy is a pathological hyperplasia of the pharyngeal tonsils, often resulting from pharyngeal infections and repeated inflammatory stimuli. Although this disease is a childhood disease, it has a profound impact on normal development and health. It is more common in cold, humid and climatically variable areas. It can also be triggered by acute infectious diseases, malnutrition and physical factors during childhood. So, how can tonsillar hypertrophy be prevented? Here are the preventive measures for tonsillar hypertrophy.
Deficiency evidence: Benefit Qi and resolve phlegm. The commonly used representative formula is Si Hai Liu Jun Zi Tang. Commonly used drugs: Poria, kombu, sea clam shell, seaweed, prunus ginseng, atractylodes, sea floating stone, fenugreek and orris.
Solid evidence: to eliminate phlegm and soften firmness. Commonly used formula includes San Zi Jin Deng Tang. Commonly used herbs: white mustard seed, Su Zi, hanging golden lantern, orris, mountain cicada, lycopodium, liu qu, licorice.
Medicine and food are the same source, especially for children who have difficulty in getting medicine, the use of food therapy is also a better way, including taro as the most ideal. Eat about 200 grams a day, seasoning regardless of light, sweet, salty, stewed, boiled soup, dry steamed can be. Take it for 3-6 months. The next best thing is ciguatera, because the growth time is not long, the seasons are difficult to continue, and can not be seasoned, just cooked light food, and kelp, jellyfish, etc., is also a very good medicinal food for the disease.
Children over the age of 4 can be surgically removed. However, surgery can easily damage the soft palate and cause soft palate paralysis or cause occlusion of the Eustachian tube mouth complicated by catarrhal otitis media, and may also damage the pharyngeal wall, causing excessive scarring and dryness of the pharynx, and some sick children cannot cooperate properly so they cannot take medication for internal treatment. Security therapy, with food therapy, is the most secure.