White throat in a child

You can’t be surprised by experienced parents with reddened throats - this happens to your sons and daughters quite often. It is quite another thing - a white throat.

How to respond to a whitened tongue, tonsils, larynx, most parents and have no idea. However, light patina can be a symptom of rather dangerous ailments. What he can talk about, we will try to tell in this article.

Healthy a healthy child’s throat has an even pinkish pale color. No swelling, rash, ulcers and ulcers in the normal should not be. Does not fit into the concept of norms and pronounced plaque on the tongue, cheeks, tonsilsthe larynx.

It appears in 90% of cases due to an infectious disease and is a symptom of various predominantly bacterial, viral and fungal diseases.

The remaining 10% is a variant of the physiological norm, for example, in infants who eat only milk.

Local immunity, which is imposed on the lymphoid tissue that makes up the tonsils and adenoids, immediately reacts to invasion from the outside and begins to create completely unbearable conditions for life for the aliens.

Thus, white bloom is nothing more than a clear sign of the normal functioning of a child’s immunity. It consists of dead mucous cells, "killed in battle" individuals of a microbe or virus, as well as fragments of thickened or dried mucus.

In most cases, white dots, which gradually increase in size, appear on the tonsils. White spots may appear in the mouth, and then go to the throat, as sometimes happens with stomatitis.

White solid plaque is characteristic of fungal infection. White plaques can also appear on the back of the larynx in both viral and bacterial diseases of the throat.

Much depends not only on the location of the formations of white or white film, but also on the associated symptoms. We consider the most common ailments in which a white patina can appear in the throat.

In this disease, white plaque is not solid, most often it is a whitish or yellow fragmentary plaque in the form of sores, plaques. These formations are especially noticeable against the background of bright reddened, swollen tonsils.

Such a symptom always proceeds with a temperature, sometimes very high. In place of the white spots a pustules may appear later. The location of the plaque is the tonsils, sometimes the tongue is covered with a white dense layer.

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Thanks to vaccination, this disease is now quite rare, but it has not completely disappeared. The sore throat with this disease has a characteristic gray-white shade. Place of dislocation - tonsils and throat.

Plaque will look like a film. The disease is accompanied by severe intoxication, high fever, and often - swelling of the neck. The plaque is removed with difficulty, leaving bleeding ulcers.

This venereal disease can be congenital, or it can be acquired, and far from always syphilis is obtained through sexual contact. A child may become infected through a household contact by someone from their relatives.

If we are talking about syphilitic plaque in the throat, then it appears only in the later stages of the disease, is deployed on the back wall of the larynx, has the appearance of a chancre or a small growth with outlined edges. Does not hurt and does not bother.

In this disease, the mucous membranes of the oropharynx are covered with white bloom due to keratinization of the epithelium due to atrophy. In children, the disease is very rare.

The true causes of the disease medicine are still not clear. It is believed that mucosal atrophy develops as a result of prolonged exposure, causing inflammation. Such exposure can be a chronic disease of the throat, often inhalation of tobacco smoke, chemical compounds that cause allergic changes in the laryngeal mucosa.

In this disease of the oropharyngeal membrane affects a fairly common fungus of the genus Candida. The raid can be quite dense and thick and cover the entire tongue, the inside of the cheeks, the tonsils, part of the pharynx.

The temperature increases infrequently, and the thermometer does not rise to very high values ​​- not higher than 37.5. The child does not complain of pain, difficulty in swallowing and breathing.

In this disease, white bloom will be located in the larynx and look like white pimples or bubbles. At the same time, the general background of the oropharynx will be bright red, saturated. Tongue covered with pimples. A rash will be observed on the body. The disease occurs on the background of high temperature.

A white or grayish-white patina in the throat with this ailment will appear only under very specific circumstances. There are two of them - pharyngitis is atrophic or the disease is granular. In the first case, the plaque will look like a lacquer film, in the second, as separate formations in the form of whitish granules.

If a child is not accustomed to brushing teeth daily, rinsing his mouth, brushing his tongue, then the appearance of plaque, especially with caries, is a common thing. As a rule, such a phenomenon does not represent a particular danger to life and health, but is one of the main causes of unpleasant bad breath.

When detecting white bloom, be sure to call a doctor. It is advisable to go home because it can be a symptom of a disease that is quite infectious, and therefore sitting in line at the clinic is a selfish and unwise position.

Attempts to make a diagnosis yourself, most likely, will not lead to anything. After all, an experienced doctor knows fifty shades of white, which can characterize the plaque with a particular disease. For moms, white bloom is just a white bloom; it is impossible to discern nuances without knowledge, experience and practice.

Even a good doctor, to confirm his assumption of the true reason, will take from the child samples of this very raid for laboratory analysis. Scrapings are usually taken from the tongue, cheeks, back of the larynx.

A smear gives an accurate picture of the causative agent that caused the unpleasant symptom. This will give the opportunity to correctly and accurately prescribe the necessary treatment.

Before starting therapy, it is necessary to exclude the bacterial origin of the plaque.

The fact is that viral infections that can give such a symptom do not need special treatment. Enough to give the child more drink, gargle with saline, often bury the same solution in the nose (ideally every 15-20 minutes).

From medicines, if you really want to buy something at the pharmacy, you can take vitamins and saline - for washing the nasopharynx. Antivirals, immunomodulators and immunostimulants of proven effectiveness are not.

Antibiotics are contraindicated, because they increase the risk of attaching a secondary infection, which will also be resistant to antibacterial drugs.

In case of bacterial infection (staphylococcal tonsillitis, for example), it is important to show the child in time to the doctor for prescribing antibiotics. Rinse special benefits will not bring, but if you really want, you can use furatsilina solution. In rare cases, with very severe infection, white plaque is removed mechanically. But to do this at home is not worth it, usually this manipulation takes place in a hospital or clinic.

Separately, it is worth mentioning about such remedies as lugol solution, alcohol propolis tincture etc.

Mucous membranes can recover faster if they are sufficiently hydrated.

Alcohol solutions, which some advise to use in combination with water for rinsing, can only lead to one result - additional drying, which means that the likelihood of complications will increase, and recovery will slow down significantly.

Lugol solution is a drug based on iodine. Children are not recommended due to the easy absorption of iodine. The fact is that, falling on the mucous membranes, especially the damaged ones, iodine is rapidly absorbed, accumulates in the body and causes an overdose in the child, which in itself is quite dangerous.

Do not do inhalation with white plaque in the throat, because warming only accelerates the rate of reproduction of microbes and fungal pathogens. Warm compresses on the throat are also contraindicated.