How to treat swollen and red tonsils

Patient's question:

Please ask if my child's tonsils are always red and a bit rotten. Besides penicillin and cephalexin, are there any other edible medications? Or is there anything to avoid in daily life?

Doctor's answer:

How to treat tonsillitis. Tonsillitis mainly refers to acute tonsillitis. Acute tonsillitis is mainly divided into simple tonsillitis and purulent tonsillitis. It is necessary to distinguish its clinical symptoms. For example, there may be throat pain, fever, difficulty swallowing. Even shortness of breath may occur. This is a more severe condition. Usually, intravenous fluid treatment is required. Generally, cephalosporin antibiotics or combined with some corticosteroids for intravenous treatment. Of course, you can also take some traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying. For those without fever, only throat pain, and the pain is not severe. Without other significant or severe clinical symptoms. Or the blood test results are not very high. It indicates that the infection is not very serious.

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