Medication for sore throat should be selected correctly

Angina is an infectious acute inflammatoryprocess of palatine tonsils. In acute form this disease mainly occurs in children of primary school age, preschool children, and also in adults in the age category from 35 to 45 years. Angina can be a consequence of reduced immunity and local or general hypothermia of the body.

Angina is a seasonal disease, with a peakinfection is mainly in fall and spring. That is why at this time of year it is necessary to be most cautious, since the disease can lead to serious complications, such as heart disease, kidney disease.

Angina can be transmitted as a fecal-oral,and airborne droplets. The main pathogens of angina are such microorganisms as viruses of group B and A, group A streptococcus, parainfluenza viruses and adenoviruses.

Depending on the symptoms and naturethe origin of the disease can be used by those or other medications from angina. The doctor conducts the diagnosis of the origin of the disease according to the patient's complaints, analyzes and results of the examination.

Symptoms of angina may be an increasebody temperature, headache, sore throat, vomiting, in some cases an increase in the lymph nodes around the neck and lower jaw, abdominal pain, redness of the throat, and purulent formations on the tonsils.

Medications for sore throats can be selected forsymptomatic treatment, and specific. Symptomatic treatment reduces discomfort from sore throat. For this, various antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drugs can be used: Ibuprofen, Aspirin, Paracetamol. In addition, the patient is prescribed rinses that remove redness and disinfect the oral cavity, as well as bed rest, rest and proper nutrition.

Antibiotics for the treatment of angina are prescribed inas a specific therapy for the streptococcal form of the disease to prevent the spread of infection. Regardless of the origin of angina, the patient should drink as much fluid as possible.

In more cases we are confronted withviral angina, the period of the disease lasts from 4 to 10 days. This type of sore throat is cured on its own, for this it is necessary to observe only the prescription of the doctor and bed rest. Symptoms of sore throat are used to relieve symptoms.

During treatment of mild forms of the diseaselocal antiseptics are used, which you can buy in any pharmacy without the doctor's appointment: the means "Septotelet", "Sebidin", "Falimint", "Strepsils" and others. These medicines help to reduce inflammation and sore throat, but they can not provide complete protection of the body from infections, and therefore it is not recommended to abuse them.

Little children do not like to dissolveantiseptic tablets, so you can use various antiseptic sprays, such as "Hexoral", "Ingalipt", "Stopangin", "Tantum Verde" and others. But do not forget that these drugs can lead to spasms of the larynx, so the procedure must be done very carefully.

To treat bacterial sore throat it is necessary to use antibiotics, also they are used to treat them purulent sore throat. Antibiotics should be drunk as a whole course onfor 10 days. It will take just as long to treat the sore throat with Penicillin or its derivatives. In the event that you are experiencing an allergy to this drug, you can use the "Erythromycin". Medicines from the new generation of tonsillitis are more effective, therefore the period of their intake can be reduced by half, but should be at least 5 days.