If you have tonsillitis symptoms, your doctor may do the following diagnostic tests before deciding on a treatment strategy.
- Physical examination: Before evaluating whether you have tonsillitis or a tonsil stone and the best course of therapy for you, your throat doctor will undertake a complete physical examination.
Checking the inside and outside of the throat for abnormal swelling or rashes, palpating the neck to examine swelling in the neck lymph nodes, and monitoring their breath sounds to rule out pulmonary infection are all part of the physical examination.
- Throat swab: The ENT specialist will use a sterile swab to collect a testing sample that will be analysed in a lab to establish whether the tonsillitis is caused by a virus to a bacterial or viral illness.
A complete blood cell count (CBC) can assist detect the bacteria causing the throat infection as well as its severity.
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Tonsillitis treatment
- Medical management: For individuals with benign non-recurring tonsillitis, medical care is adequate. The doctor will prescribe medications based on the findings of the diagnostic tests.
- Surgical treatment: Surgery is the most effective therapy for recurrent or chronic tonsillitis. If you have had at least seven episodes of tonsillitis in the past year, surgical surgery is deemed required. It is done by removing both tonsils entirely. It is normally done as an outpatient operation, but in extreme circumstances, you may be admitted to the hospital for 1-2 days to ensure there are no postoperative issues.
The following surgical treatments are available in pune for the treatment of tonsillitis or tonsil stones:
Radiofrequency tonsillectomy
- It is a laser operation that removes the tonsils with a focused, high-energy radiofrequency beam. Radiofrequency tonsil ablation is another name for it.
Harmonic scalpel tonsillectomy
- Vibration energy is used to cut the inflamed tonsils with a harmonic scalpel. It causes heat and friction, which causes protein denaturation and tonsil dissection.
Tonsillectomy with electrocautery or cauterization
- The physician utilizes low-energy electrocautery to remove the inflamed tonsils during this surgery. It is one of the most traditional or oldest procedures of tonsil removal.
Tonsillectomy with cold knife
- A cold knife dissection is a type of surgical surgery used to remove tonsils. The tonsils and their capsules are separated from the surrounding tissues by the surgeon using a 'cold' or sharp knife.
