What to do if tonsils are very large

It is well known that if a person's tonsils are too large, it will have a greater impact on a person's normal swallowing function. Enlarged tonsils are a common symptom. For example, bad living habits, eating too much irritating food, drinking too little water, etc. may aggravate the problem of enlarged tonsils. So what should you do if your tonsils become enlarged? How to effectively reduce the impact of enlarged tonsils on patients' physical and mental health?

1. Pay attention to your living habits

You should pay attention to your lifestyle habits and drink more Isatis root water, which can have a good effect in reducing swelling. Rinse your mouth with light salt water every morning or evening. Don’t make it too salty, just enough that you can feel a slight saltiness.

2. Use mouthwash

You can also use mouthwash for swollen tonsils, but it must be a mouthwash specifically for swollen tonsils. If we rinse our mouths every morning and evening and take some medicine, it can effectively relieve the swelling.

3. Chinese herbal medicine prescription

Andrographis paniculata powder

Appropriate amounts of Andrographis paniculata and honey. Grind Andrographis paniculata into powder, take 6 grams each time, with warm water, add appropriate amount of honey when taking, twice a day. Andrographis paniculata can clear away heat, detoxify, cool blood and reduce swelling. It is suitable for sore throat caused by tonsillitis. It can clear away heat, detoxify, relieve sore throat and reduce swelling.

Scrophularia catechu detoxification soup

Use 10 grams of Scrophularia, 25 grams of Gypsum, 15 grams of Isatis Root, and 5 grams of Catechu. First wrap the catechu tightly with gauze, put it into the medicine pot together with other medicines, boil it with water twice, filter out the residue, combine the medicinal liquid, and boil it for another 10 minutes. When the medicine liquid becomes thick (about 50 ml), take it twice a day, 1 dose per day. It can cool the blood, detoxify, clear the throat and relieve diaphragm. It is suitable for people with inflamed and swollen tonsils.

Honeysuckle decoction

Use 30 grams of honeysuckle, 15 grams of Sophora flavescens, and 6 grams of licorice. Boil these three herbs in water, take twice a day, one dose per day. Honeysuckle can not only dispel wind-heat, but also clear away heat and cool blood. It is suitable for various febrile diseases and is more effective in treating inflamed and swollen tonsils.

Dandelion Olive Porridge

Use 15 grams of dandelion, 100 grams of radish, 50 grams each of olives and japonica rice. Mash the dandelion, olives and radish together, wrap them with gauze, add appropriate amount of water, boil for about 20 minutes, remove the residue and cook porridge with the washed japonica rice. This porridge has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and has a good therapeutic effect on inflamed and swollen tonsils.

Chicken Nei Jin San

Use 96 grams of chicken gizzard lining, 2 grams each of indigo and borneol. Grind the above herbs into fine powder and store in a bottle for later use. Take a bean-sized amount of powder each time and blow it on both sides of the throat. Blow 4-6 times a day to treat swollen and inflamed tonsils.

Prunella Vulgaris Soup

When people are healthy, especially children, drinking a bowl of egg grass soup can prevent tonsillitis for a lifetime and can effectively reduce swelling.

Method: Put an egg and five cents of Prunella Vulgaris in a pot, add two bowls of water and boil until it becomes one bowl of water. Then let the child eat the egg and drink the soup. Only one dose is needed and the tonsils will not become inflamed for a lifetime.

Bean root soup

9 grams of red peony root, 9 grams of Sophora flavescens, 9 grams of hanging golden lantern, 9 grams of Moutan bark, 9 grams of roasted Bombyx batryticatus, 9 grams of honeysuckle, 3 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum, 3 grams of raw licorice, 9 grams of Belamcanda chinensis, 9 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis, 9 grams of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, 9 grams of Arctium lappa, and 9 grams and 3 grams of Chrysanthemum. Add water and boil the juice, take twice a day. It can clear away heat, detoxify, and reduce swelling.

4. Drug Law

If your tonsils are not so swollen, you can check what causes your tonsils to swell, and then take symptomatic medication, which can better alleviate the swollen tonsils. If the condition is more serious, you can see a doctor first and take medication under the doctor's guidance, so that you can better eliminate the swelling. Such as Dianshe Pills, Niuhuang Jiedu Tablets, Azithromycin Tablets, Hou Shuning Tablets, Cefaclor, Metronidazole and other common medicines used to treat inflamed and swollen tonsils.

However, we should not always think about what medicine can cure tonsillitis, but we should take preventive measures in our daily life, do more exercise, strengthen our physical fitness, eat less spicy food, and fundamentally reduce the occurrence of tonsillitis.

5. Massage

"Pain means blockage." Any disease that causes pain, hypertrophy, or hyperplasia will cause meridian blockage. Massage is also a very important step in the treatment of chronic tonsillitis and adenoids.

(1) After washing your child’s feet every night, rub the soles of his feet for 30 to 50 times each, and then massage all five foot spots for 5 to 10 minutes.

(2) Rub the child’s arms, especially the inner and outer sides above the thumbs. These are the hand Taiyin lung meridian and the hand Yangming large intestine meridian. These two meridians directly connect the lungs and throat. Rub these two meridians on the child's arm dozens of times until they are warm. It is effective in treating sore throat. Finally, rub the thenar eminences on your hands and press the Hegu points on your hands, which are also the main acupoints for treating sore throat.

(3) All chronic diseases are deficiency syndromes. At the end of the massage, you can comb the Baihui point on the top of your head for dozens of times like combing your hair, which can help to replenish your energy.

If you perform these three massages on your child every night, he or she will feel very comfortable, especially those children who also have enlarged adenoids in the nasopharynx, who always have to breathe with their mouths open and snore. After this full set of massages, they will sleep more peacefully and the snoring sounds will gradually subside.

6. Surgery

If the swollen tonsils are really serious, you can choose to use surgery for treatment. Surgery is a very effective way to treat swollen tonsils. Swollen tonsils will affect our breathing and eating, and seriously affect the quality of life, so we can use surgery to relieve the swelling.

Tips

If you have swollen tonsils, it is usually caused by repeated inflammation, so we must pay attention to the use of our throat and not overuse it. You should get more rest and don’t stay up late. You can drink some water. If the swelling is severe, don’t eat food that is too cold or too spicy. You can eat some liquid food or some soft food.