Tonsillitis is one of the infectious lesions of the upper respiratory tract that is dominated by inflammatory lesions of the tonsils and is one of the common diseases in pediatrics. It can be caused by streptococcal or viral infections. According to its duration and pathological changes, it is divided into two categories: acute tonsillitis and chronic tonsillitis.
In Chinese medicine, this disease is called mastitis. In the acute stage, the disease is caused by external wind-heat, internal heat in the lungs and stomach, and internal and external heat and toxicity, which are caused by the upper throat. The chronic stage is caused by the deficiency of internal organs and the inflammation of deficiency fire, and is triggered by the incomplete treatment of wind-heat moth or the residual evil after warm-heat disease. The specific types of performance and treatment have been introduced in previous articles and will not be discussed in detail here. The following is the nutritional diet for tonsillitis.
1, the acute phase of the nutritional diet: acute patients will appear sore throat, swallowing difficulties, hoarseness, headache, nasal congestion, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting, fever and other symptoms. During this period, the diet should be light and refreshing, more liquid diet, rice soup, lotus root powder, soybean milk, noodle soup, etc., more watermelon, grapes, pears, citrus and other fruits, more water or various juice drinks to replenish the body’s water needs. After the condition has improved, eat more nutritious and easily digestible soft foods, such as egg custard, mung bean porridge, steamed fish soup, etc.
2, chronic tonsillitis nutritional diet conditioning: chronic tonsillitis mostly developed from acute tonsillitis, in the acute phase without timely treatment, long-term recurrent episodes and become chronic. The patient often has a sore throat discomfort, swollen submandibular lymph nodes, headache, earache and other symptoms. At this time, it is advisable to eat heat-clearing and detoxifying foods, such as mung bean soup, adzuki bean porridge, cabbage, white radish, fresh cauliflower, loofah, horsetail porridge, and drink more pure water as well as fresh fruit juice. Be sure to avoid eating greasy, fried, baked and spicy stimulating foods.