What are symptoms of tonsillitis?
Hello, you are here because you want to know if you do not have tonsillitis and you want to know who symptoms of tonsillitis are. Well, this is the right place, but if we want to know what symptoms of tonsillitis are, we first need to know what are tonsils.
Lot of people asks what are tonsils. Well, it is very good question, because almost everything in human body has some function and of course also tonsils has its function and there is very good reason why tonsils are part of human body. With tonsils it is really not like with other parts of human body, because you cannot see on the first sight what they do like eyes or ears. What you might not know about tonsils is that there is not just one pair of tonsils, but in fact three in our throat, but people usually means palatine tonsils when speaking about tonsils which are on the back of the throat. Well, now we know where tonsils are, but what do the tonsils do and why it is important for symptoms of tonsillitis?
Tonsils are important part of our immune system and are connected to lymphatic system and it is something like like first line of defense against anything we inhale or ingest. any such bacteria or even virus is catched with tonsils, then it is transported to lymph nodes where special cells starts to fight against the infection you have. Tonsils are here to fight infection so it is almost funny that tonsils can also get infected. Then they can enlarge and it could be one of the symptoms of tonsillitis.
Now we know what are tonsils, but we still do not know what is tonsillitis. Tonsillitis is in fact disorder caused by inflammation of tonsils. We have already mentioned that tonsils are in human body for fighting infection when infection is in tonsils and it is then the main site of infection we call it tonsillitis and it can have lot of signs we call symptoms. Tonsillitis is something what usually gets children, but the truth is that even young people has tonsillitis quite often and in fact you can have tonsillitis probably at any age. What is very important to know about tonsillitis is that it is something what can be caused by wide variety of different bacteria or viruses.
So, what are symptoms of tonsillitis?
One of the first symptoms of tonsillitis is as many other disorders pain, in this case it is pain in your throat. In some cases this pain can be really big and severe. This pain is usually stronger when you try to swallow and I’m sure than you know what I mean. It is not very common, but sometime the pain can spread even to ears.
Another quite common symptom of tonsillitis is headache, I’m sure that this is something you also knows.
Sometimes when you have tonsillitis is one of the symptoms is also change of your voice. It is something what we all know that someone with tonsillitis sounds really different, like the person has voice of someone else.
When you come to doctor with symptoms of tonsillitis, the doctor will very likely touch you under your ears, it is because one of the symptoms of tonsillitis might be swollen lymphatic nodes that are under your jaws.
Another common symptom of many diseases and disorders and various infections is high temperature, high temperature is also one of the symptoms of tonsillitis.
Some of the symptoms of tonsillitis you can see, it is red color of the throat and also the tonsils are significantly bigger, they have spots on them and also might be coated.
The symptoms of tonsillitis also varies with origin of the infection. If you infection is of viral origin, the symptoms are usually not so bad, but we really cannot say this generally. If your tonsillitis is caused by Coxsackie virus, you can see small blisters on your tonsils and also in your mouth.
Worst symptoms of tonsillitis may show up when you infcction is coused by something different, for example if your tonsillitis is caused by streptococus your tonsils will be bigger and swollen and coated. Your throat will be sore and you will have really bad breath. This is something what is very common. Person with tonsillitis caused by streptococus will also have higher temperature.
If you feel that your symptoms of tonsillitis are bad and it might be something serious, you should of course always see your doctor and do not diagnose yourself. Also there is common mistake that people thinks that hot beverages, as hot tea for example can help them. Yes, it is really good to drink a lot, but you should drink such drinks that are warm, not hot or cold. What also might help you is garlic and of course stuff that they will recommend you on your symptoms of tonsillitis at your local pharmacy.
Tonsillitis is usually nothing serious and should take only few days and you will be OK again, When I have these problems I usually drink lot of warm tea, eat garlic and use some of the stuff from pharmacy that can really help against symptoms of tonsillitis.
