A: Pharyngeal inflammation generally refers to inflammation of the pharyngeal isthmus, mainly tonsillitis, and some children will also show acute laryngitis.
Under normal circumstances, there are pathogens (bacteria, viruses, mycoplasma, etc. ) in the human pharynx and tonsil recess. When the body's defense ability is reduced for some reasons, pathogens will multiply in large numbers, and external pathogens will take advantage of it, thus showing inflammation of the throat.
Therefore, laryngitis is a very common disease in pediatrics. Many children have a fever and a cold, which will first be manifested as pharyngeal isthmus congestion and tonsillitis. If the child's tonsils are often inflamed repeatedly, it will form chronic tonsillitis, so that toxins can not be discharged from the tonsils, which is easy to cause "lesions" and even form chronic tonsillitis.
The throat is the gateway to the lungs and stomach. The ancients said, "The throat is connected with three stomachs to clear the stomach, and the throat is connected with the five internal organs to prick the lungs." Breathing in the throat, connecting with the mouth, releasing the lungs and stomach is an integrated fortress and the only way for evil spirits to hurt people. Therefore, the invasion of exogenous pathogens often appears in the throat. Treatise on Febrile Diseases contains "Shaoyin disease ... sore throat", while Treatise on Febrile Diseases contains "wind-heat ... toxic pathogens ... red eyes and sore throat" and other related discussions.
If the child has recurrent pharyngeal inflammation, although it is related to exogenous cold, wind and heat, the root cause is still in the spleen and stomach. Specifically, it is mainly caused by the following three reasons.
The accumulation of food and calories.
This is the most common cause of pharyngitis in children. Children's spleen and stomach function is weak and easy to accumulate stagnation. If you accumulate over time, it is easy to turn heat into fire. In particular, children who like to eat snacks, junk food, or picky eaters who eat a lot of high-protein and greasy food, or children who like to drink night milk before going to bed, are most likely to accumulate food and convert it into calories.
When the heat pathogen invades the throat along the meridians, there will be throat inflammation, which is manifested as sore throat, swelling of pharyngeal isthmus, swelling and suppuration of tonsils and so on. In addition to inflammation of the pharynx, such children will also have symptoms such as abdominal distension, constipation, heavy breathing, restless sleep at night, grinding their teeth while sleeping, or like to sleep on their stomachs, and recurrent oral ulcers.
Frail
Children with weak constitution have poor resistance and are vulnerable to exogenous pathogens, and exogenous wind-heat pathogens attack the throat first, so children will have repeated throat inflammation.
Physical weakness is related to congenital and acquired. Some children are weak at birth due to premature delivery and other reasons, while more children are poor in physical fitness due to improper feeding methods or improper medication by their parents or diseases.
Deficiency-fire upper inflammation
Many parents think that their children's throat is inflamed and get angry, and they often use the method of clearing heat and purging fire to deal with it. But in fact, many times this kind of "fire" is a virtual fire, which is caused by the inflammation of the throat and the attack along the meridians. In this case, it is not appropriate to use cold and cold methods to remove fire.
Inflammation caused by deficiency fire is more common in children with weak constitution and hyperactive fire due to yin deficiency. These children often use antibiotics every time they have a fever, or take cold medicine repeatedly for a long time, or have chronic diarrhea for a long time, or have a high fever, and their body fluids are injured and they consume yin, forming a constitution of yin deficiency and fire flourishing.
If you want to avoid recurrent throat inflammation, you must do the following:
(1) Develop good eating habits, try to achieve balanced nutrition, avoid partial eclipse, eat less snacks, junk food, fruits and foods that are too cold, and avoid excessive intake of high-protein and greasy foods.
(2) Pay attention to controlling children's digestion every day. If the child has food accumulation, it should be actively treated to prevent food accumulation from being further converted into heat and causing pharyngeal inflammation. ("Do children have to eat less when accumulating food?" Not necessarily! "You can search for" Jishi "on the official WeChat account to view related articles).
(3) If the child is weak and prone to repeated respiratory infections, besides strengthening nutrition, drugs such as Yupingfeng Granules can also be taken dialectically to regulate physical fitness and improve resistance. (medication should be based on accurate syndrome differentiation. If parents can't treat according to syndrome differentiation, it is recommended to see a professional doctor. )
(4) Children with yin deficiency should take medicine under the guidance of a doctor as much as possible after getting sick, and should reduce the use of cold medicine at ordinary times, and do not use antibiotics as soon as they have a fever; Children with chronic diarrhea should be actively treated.
If the child has obvious manifestations of yin deficiency and fire, such as night sweats, fever in hands and feet, flushing face, dry stool, etc. Under the guidance of a doctor, he can take drugs such as Shashen Maidong Decoction or Liuwei Dihuang Pill (Liuwei Dihuang Pill is a drug specially designed by pediatrician Qian Yi, which was mainly used to treat yin deficiency in children in ancient times), or he can drink Sandou Wu Mei (mung bean, soybean and black bean 65438 each) as mentioned above.