Chronic tonsillitis, a relatively common disease, can cause symptoms such as snoring at night, foreign body sensation in the pharynx, and recurrent sore throat. Tonsillar hypertrophy, the enlarged tissue left over from frequent episodes of tonsillitis, can also present as a foreign body sensation and sleep snoring. Surgery can be performed when the indications for surgery are met. However, some patients will have symptoms of dry throat after surgery, and a significant number of patients do not accept the surgical method, especially children, and the incidence of pediatric tonsillitis is higher, so is there any good way other than surgery?
Chinese medicine pecking method for chronic tonsillitis is a traditional Chinese medicine stabbing therapy, by pecking the palatine tonsils in order to achieve the external treatment of the disease. The throat is the meeting place of the meridians, local pecking treatment has the effect of activating blood circulation, draining heat and opening the orifices, reducing swelling and relieving pain, the method can obviously make the tonsil tissue smaller, and retain the tonsil immune function.
1, commonly used instruments: sterile knife handle, disposable sterile surgical blade (sickle knife), ordinary sterile tongue depressor.
2.Operation methods: (1), positioning palatine tonsils.
(2), operation method a, the patient sitting open mouth, children should be fixed head.
b. The doctor faces the patient and holds the tongue depressor with the left hand to expose the tonsils without anesthesia. In the right hand, hold the tonsil sickle curved knife and do a bird-pecking movement on the tonsils, each knife depth is about 2-5 mm, depending on the size of the tonsils to determine the depth of entry, 3-5 times per side, with a small amount of bleeding, to spit 2-3 mouths of blood is appropriate (about 2-5 ml). The same method is used for the opposite tonsil.
c, 3-4 days once, 5 times for a course of treatment.
3. Contraindications (1) Those with active tuberculosis.
(2) Those with diphtheria carriers.
(3) Children under 3 years of age and psychiatric patients or those who cannot cooperate.
(4) Those with serious cardiovascular, liver, kidney and other hematopoietic system diseases.
4. Precautions (1) No food and water for 1 hour after surgery.
(2) Be careful not to injure tissues other than the tonsils during operation.
(3) When the tonsils are large, it is necessary to proceed step by step, pecking from shallow to deep, opening part of the crypt first, and then gradually entering the inside.
(4) When the inflammation is heavy or during menstruation, the pecking action should be gentle to prevent excessive bleeding.