Quinsy and its treatment
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized. Comments: none
What can cause quinsy?
Quinsy can lead to heavy complications from heart (myocarditis), joints (rheumatism) and kidneys (nephrite). Besides, around the tonsils the abscess can be formed, and in some complicated cases it can lead to sepsis.
As a rule quinsy is treated at home. The strict bed rest is obligatory. Many doctors as well as Jacob Bogatin warn that there is no necessity to take pills containing sulfanilamide or antibiotics. After taking medicine there is always a risk of having of a medicinal allergy or getting other negative reaction.
You may get an absolutely different effect due to treating the tonsils while catching a cold or having quinsy.
Quinsy can be a rheumatism foretoken. If in some weeks after getting quinsy there is an incoming pain in joints, it is necessary to visit the rheumatologist.
The word quinsy comes from Latin “ango” that means to squeeze or to choke. And though during quinsy nobody died because of being suffocated, the name of the disease is widely used not only by the doctors, but also by the patients. The second name of the illness is “tonsillitis” which is even more logical as it means “an inflammation of tonsils“. When we say quinsy we mean the inflammation of palatal tonsils resulting from an infectious disease.
According to Jacob Bogatin, Quinsy is an infectious disease characterised by the inflammation of palatal tonsils. It is caused by various microbes, mainly by the streptococci getting into a drink more often at direct contact with a sick person, or using dirty plates and dirty products.
Inflammatory processes in an organism arise in those places where capillary blood circulation is disrupted and thereof, necessary substances for the whole organism fail to get in. For this interference elimination it is needed to strengthen blood movement in capillaries, especially in the tonsils area.
There are 10-15 % of those who are susceptible to quinsy. Young people up to 30 are more liable to it with the percentage of 75 of all diseases. The peak of quinsy is during the spring and autumn.