You would never hear a child suffering from tonsillitis. In medicine, the disease is known as tonsillitis, or inflammation of the tonsils. Tonsillitis there is an acute nature, but those that are chronic and recurrent nature. Obviously, a disease that allowed dragging on without proper treatment will greatly interfere with activities of children. Tonsillitis will cause the child can not play with his friends, can not go to school, and usually difficult to eat.
What is the process of tonsillitis
tonsils with other body systems actively worked to form immune? If the tonsils have the disorder will increasingly enlarged tonsils. Whereas, it should at the end of the age of seven years has narrowed to the tonsils are not visible. Enlarged tonsils can cause disorders in children. One of the most frequent, i.e. changing the function of the tonsils as the immune system into a den of infection.
How symptoms of tonsillitis
in general, parents should suspect a disturbance in the tonsils of children if there are several symptoms, such as high fever even reached 40 degrees Celsius, itching or dryness in the throat, pain when swallowing, frequent cough and cold, the sound becomes less clear, complained of shortness of breath, lethargy and decreased activity.
In children who are small and can not say the complaint, usually often fussy or crying at mealtimes, and sometimes vomiting when they want to swallow food. As a result, the child who was suffering from tonsillitis will usually be difficult to eat because of pain when swallowing. In some children who enlarged tonsils are large enough to cover the throat will have difficulty swallowing until the child is reluctant to eat and growth will be hampered.
Inflammation of the tonsils and the intelligence of children
Enlarged tonsils become a good place for germs (bacteria or viruses) to breed. As a result, children who suffer from inflammation of the tonsils are more often a cough, runny nose and sore throat.
If the child is often susceptible to interference like that, certainly weakened body resistance, reduced appetite and growth will be hampered. Therefore, not uncommon to children who have tonsillitis will experience a decrease of intelligence.
More severe, if the throat is closed partially or completely so that it can inhibit breathing. If breathing is hampered be deprived of oxygen, the result would hinder brain development.
Because the airway is closed, the child will have a habit of sleeping at night with his mouth open and snoring. Other consequences, the child will be sleepy during the day due to lack of sleep at night.
If it is left alone, the child will often fall asleep in class during lessons.
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