The harm of repeated tonsil suppuration

Tonsillar suppuration, often recurrent. Many people think that since it happens repeatedly, they just let it develop, and believe that repeated tonsillitis will not have any adverse effects on human health. In fact, repeated tonsillitis is very harmful to the human body. Clinically, this is believed to be one of the main causes of various diseases such as rheumatic heart disease, rheumatic fever, nephritis, etc. So what are the dangers of repeated tonsil suppuration?

1. Cause rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. Because tonsillitis is often caused by streptococcal infection, the toxins (antigens) produced by streptococci may combine with substances (antibodies) produced by the human body to resist toxins to form a harmful complex. If this type of complex is deposited on the surface of the heart valve, it can cause the valve to thicken and adhere, impairing the normal opening and closing function of the valve, gradually worsening and forming rheumatic heart disease. This may result in symptoms of heart discomfort such as difficulty breathing, hemoptysis, palpitations, coughing, and angina pectoris. In addition, if these antibody-antigen complexes are deposited in the joints, they may cause rheumatoid arthritis.

2. Cause nephritis. The complex formed by the toxins produced by streptococci and the human body's antibodies is deposited in the glomeruli and may cause nephritis.

3. Causes difficulty swallowing, breathing and snoring. If the tonsils suffer from repeated chronic inflammation, they will proliferate and hypertrophy, which may block the respiratory tract and esophagus, causing difficulty in swallowing, difficulty breathing and snoring while sleeping.

4. Bad breath. There are many crypts on the tonsils, which can accumulate desquamated epithelial cells, keratin fragments and some foreign particles, which may cause tonsillitis. At the same time, some anaerobic bacteria will also grow and decompose saliva, food residues, etc. to produce smelly sulfides, causing bad breath.

5. Chest deformation and cor pulmonale. Long-term swollen tonsillitis may cause breathing difficulties, leading to pigeon chest, funnel chest, and even cor pulmonale.