Is it okay to eat melon when experiencing tonsillitis?
Tonsillitis is generally caused by viral infections. Generally speaking, the use of some anti-infective drugs can quickly eliminate discomfort. Of course, if the symptoms are not very serious, they can also be cured through the body's own immunity. When tonsillitis occurs, it is best to eat some non-irritating foods. Patients can eat melons daily, but not too much to avoid excessive irritation of the throat. Tonsillitis can be divided into acute tonsillitis and chronic tonsillitis. Chronic tonsillitis can be caused by acute infectious diseases (such as scarlet fever, measles, influenza, diphtheria, etc.), and nasal sinus infections can also be accompanied by this disease. Streptococcus and Staphylococcus are the most common pathogenic bacteria. The clinical manifestations are often discomfort in the throat, a sense of foreign body, dryness, itching, irritating cough, bad breath and other symptoms.
(1) Keep the mouth clean, brush your teeth before bed every day, rinse your mouth after meals to reduce the chance of bacterial infection in the mouth. (2) Gargle method can choose iodine tablets, 1-2 tablets each time, 3-4 times a day. Gargling with dilute salt water is simple and convenient. After meals and before bedtime, take a cup of warm water, add a little salt, gargle repeatedly for about 5 minutes each time until the taste is salty. (3) Drug therapy uses drugs to enhance immunity; for Streptococcus infection, long-acting penicillin can be used for treatment; strengthen physical exercise to enhance physical fitness and disease resistance. Surgical therapy should be adopted when conservative treatment is ineffective.
(1) Excessive enlargement of the tonsils, which interferes with breathing and swallowing. (2) Repeated acute attacks, more than 4-5 times a year, with a history of peritonsillar abscess. (3) Long-term low fever, and no other lesions except tonsillitis found after a general physical examination. (4) Nephritis, rheumatism and other diseases caused by tonsillitis should be scheduled for surgery under the guidance of a doctor.
