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What is important to know about Angina?

Sore throat, familiar to all, is a very unusual disease and dangerous in its complications. Although Angina is referred to as a throat disease of an infectious origin, its course can be accompanied by disorders of tissues and organs completely remote from the throat. In fact, Angina is just an acute form of Tonsillitis, when the infection affects the mucous membrane of the oral cavity and pharynx, causing such severe irritation of the mucous membrane that the organs of the immune system, the tonsils, starting their anti-infectious work, increase in size to such an extent that they can provoke asthma attacks ... It is for this reason that, with Angina, breathing difficulties are felt - the tonsils can increase in some cases to almost complete closure and impede the flow of inhaled air.

What is known about Angina that is little understood by an ordinary person without medical education, and what is very important to know about Angina in order to follow the correct treatment and end the disease within the throat without affecting other body systems.

Both bacteria and viruses can cause sore throat. But most often Angina itself becomes the result of a bacterial infection, provoked by the severe development of viral diseases. Then pathogenic bacteria join the pathogenic viruses, which up to this point were inhibited by the immune system and did not have the opportunity to multiply in the mouth and throat to a critical amount that could cause a complex disease.

Angina is a contagious disease that can be spread by airborne droplets, when bacteria from the focus of inflammation in the throat of one person, when talking or breathing intensively, are released into the air atmosphere breathed by the person nearby. There are especially severe currents of Angina, about which they say - Purulent tonsillitis. Such a sore throat is the result of infection of the oral cavity and throat with pyogenic bacteria, which are highly active with a sharp increase in the population in the human body. You can infect another person with Angina by using common household items: cutlery, dishes for food, toothbrushes, by drinking from one bottle, biting off one food product, using one face towel, as well as kissing, and which can seem very incredible - sleeping on one pillow (when the face comes into contact with its surface, into which the sick person "breathed" during sleep).

As a rule, angina is accompanied by a high temperature, which can be held for quite a long time and rise again and again even with medicinal measures to reduce it. The high temperature in Angina is caused by a highly pathogenic microflora that affects the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, and, accordingly, causes a violent reaction of the immune system to its presence. The immune system with Angina recognizes pathogenic microorganisms as very dangerous, and tries to interfere with their vital activity, raising the temperature to maximum levels (many microorganisms are not able to multiply at such temperatures, which inhibits their harmful vital activity).

Angina is dangerous for other tissues, organs and organ systems in that during the period of "riot" of harmful microorganisms in the human body, they release toxic substances that are carried with the bloodstream throughout the body. The lymphatic system - the defender of the human body from pathogens - begins to filter harmful microorganisms, removing some of them from the bloodstream, but the degree of harmfulness of microorganisms sometimes reaches such proportions that the lymphatic system begins to work at the limit of its capabilities, which causes an excessive increase in tonsils in Angina. In the tonsils (organs of the lymphatic system), the process of developing protective elements begins, which leads to inflammation of the tonsil tissue, which increases the size of the tonsils.

Why is bed rest and plenty of drink prescribed for Angina? Such a measure of the treatment of angina as bed rest, provides an economy of energy by the body to increase its purposeful resistance to the disease. And a lot of liquid is required to drink with Angina in order to remove from the body ("wash out") toxic substances filtered by the lymphatic system as soon as possible.

Why is the throat unbearably sore and painful to swallow with Angina? Such pain syndrome in Angina is directly related to the condition of the tissues of the throat and pharynx, which, at the intercellular level, change their usual structure under the influence of the inflammatory process associated with the toxicity of infectious microorganisms and the work of the immune system, which injects inflammation by "injecting" specific inflammatory triggers into the tissue.

The familiar method of treating angina with antibiotics may not be effective if the strains of the pathogen (their varieties) and its sensitivity to a certain group of antibacterial drugs are not precisely established. For quick and effective treatment, it is necessary to pass an analysis - a smear from the throat, according to which the bacterial laboratory will determine the exact antibiotic for the treatment of each specific case of angina. Treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics may be due to the fact that a pathogen with unknown characteristics has been identified or there is no suitable laboratory for research in the vicinity of the patient's place of residence, and it is necessary to act on a bacterial infection immediately. In the case of self-treatment of Angina, you can delay the process of the disease and translate it into a number of complications of a surgical nature, for example, development of a periopharyngeal or pharyngeal abscess.

Do not forget that the unsuccessful use of antibiotics can lead not to a therapeutic effect, but to an allergic reaction, which will aggravate the condition of the body and can even activate dormant or remission skin diseases.

One of the most common complications after angina is rheumatic diseases. And this is a completely different quality of life, since it affects the work of the tissues that form the periarticular and articular joints in the skeleton. This complicates the motor functions of the body. In order to prevent complications of Angina, it is necessary to strictly follow the medical prescriptions and not to self-medicate Angina.

Angina refers to those infectious diseases that can be unpredictable in their consequences, and are aggravated by atypical complications in any area of the body.