Contents:
- Medical Video: Tonsil Stone Removal - REDUX, Tonsil Stone Removal Tools
- The cause of swollen tonsils
- 1. Gastric Acid (GERD)
- 2. Smoking habits
- 3. Inflammation of the tonsils
- Should swollen tonsils be operated on?
Medical Video: Tonsil Stone Removal - REDUX, Tonsil Stone Removal Tools
Have you ever experienced tonsillectomy? If so, how does it feel? Tonsillectomy is generally done because of inflammation that causes your tonsils to swell. But did you know that besides inflammation of the tonsils, can you also experience swollen tonsils due to other causes? Here's the explanation.
The cause of swollen tonsils
Tonsils or tonsils are actually a collection of glandular tissue, which is located at the back of your throat. Protect the body from infections that will attack the body through the mouth, with white blood cells that have tonsils. Tonsils can also experience swelling. Swollen tonsils can occur due to several things, including:
1. Gastric Acid (GERD)
The food you eat, from the throat to the stomach, must pass through a long tube of contact called the esophagus. This muscle in the form of a valve in the esophagus prevents backflow of food from the stomach back to the throat. But when the valve in the esophagus muscles do not work properly, by closing the road so that the food does not return to the throat, your stomach acid flows into the esophagus, then irritates the esophagus wall. This condition was then known as gastric acid or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
A study conducted by the American Academy of Otolaryngology revealed that, gastric acid (GERD) can trigger swollen tonsils. The study was supported by Doctor Michael Friedman, who said that enlargement of tonsils could occur because stomach acid had the same effect as other causes of the tonsils.
2. Smoking habits
A study conducted in Colorado showed that there was a relationship between smoking behavior and enlargement to cancer in the tonsils. This condition is predicted to occur as a reaction from the tonsils to the chemical reactions contained in cigarettes.
3. Inflammation of the tonsils
It is this inflammation of the tonsils that you might have experienced. As mentioned above, the tonsils support the body's immune system by protecting the body from infection that will enter the body through the mouth. But when the tonsils themselves are infected, they become inflamed which causes the tonsils to swell.
This tonsillar inflammation is known as tonsillitis. The symptoms that are usually shown when tonsils are inflamed include fever, the onset of pain in the throat and pain when swallowing, and the reddish color.
Inflammation of tonsils can occur because of several things, such as viruses and bacteria. The virus that causes inflammation of the tonsils is the same virus as the virus that causes cough and flu. While the bacteria that cause tonsillitis are generally streptococcus bacteria.
Should swollen tonsils be operated on?
Swollen tonsils that start to irritate you will usually be treated with tonsillectomy. Tonsillectomy is a medical procedure in the form of surgery to remove the tonsils whose presence feels disturbing. Apart from being swollen tonsils, tonsillectomy will usually be done if:
- Occurrence of tonsillitis five to seven times you experience in one year.
- You begin to experience difficulty in breathing.
- You often snore when you sleep hard volume.
- Your tonsils are bleeding.
- You have difficulty swallowing food, especially meat
- You have tonsillar cancer.
