Is an infection of the tonsils (inflamed)

Is an infection of the tonsils (inflamed) tonsils caused by viruses. Usually affects children aged 5-15 years. Based on the long contracted, the tonsils are divided into 2; acute tonsillitis and chronic tonsillitis.

Categorized as acute tonsillitis if the disease lasts less than 3 weeks. Tonsils is called chronic if it occurs 7 times or more a year, or five times over the past two years, three times a year in a row.

Symptom
Symptoms of tonsillitis include: The patient was tegorokan feels dry, or feeling lump in the throat (neck), pain on swallowing (swallowing saliva or food and drinks) so that a lazy meal, the pain may spread to around the neck and ears.
Other symptoms include fever, headache, sometimes chills, fatigue, muscle pain with a cough, runny nose, hoarseness, halitosis, nausea, sometimes abdominal pain, enlarged lymph nodes (lymph nodes) around the neck. Sometimes people with tonsillitis (chronic) snore during sleep (especially if accompanied by an enlarged adenoid glands (glands located in the rear wall of the throat and nasal cavity).

Symptoms can be known if the person doing the examination. At the time of examination, found enlargement of the tonsils (tonsillectomy), red, white patches sometimes found (exudate) on the surface of the tonsils, the red color that indicates inflammation in the tonsils and throat.
Keep in mind that not all complaints and signs on a person hired by the patient. This is because the individual complaints and most of the parents or the patient will see a doctor when experiencing symptoms of fever and pain on swallowing.

Treatment
In the medical world there is actually no specific way to prevent tonsillitis. But some of the tips below help to get rid of tonsils, first, get used to wash hands frequently to prevent the spread of micro-organisms that can cause tonsillitis. Second, avoid contact with infected persons tanggorokan, at least until 24 hours after the patient a throat infection (caused by germs) to get antibiotics.