This is just another way of telling someone that they have tonsillitis<\/em>. Your tonsils are part of your immune system and are located in your throat. They are responsible for absorbing infections that are cause by microorganisms to prevent them from going deeper inside your body.<\/p>\n Although they are helping keep your body from becoming infected by these microorganisms your tonsils become infected themselves from absorbing the virus or bacteria they were keeping out of the rest of your body. When this happens your tonsils become inflamed. Anyone of any age, race, or gender can get inflamed tonsils with one exception. It is not common for children age two and under to suffer from inflamed tonsils.<\/p>\n Inflamed tonsils are divided into three categories, which are:<\/p>\n When a person has inflamed tonsils, or tonsillitis, they may have all or some of the following symptoms.<\/p>\n Although they are helping keep your body from becoming infected by these microorganisms your tonsils become infected themselves from absorbing the virus or bacteria they were keeping out of the rest of your body. This is what causes your tonsils to become inflamed.<\/p>\n Inflamed tonsils can also be transmitted through direct contact with another person who has the infection. It is transmitted from the droplets in the air from someone coughing or sneezing. In other cases inflamed tonsils is caused an underlying mouth condition like mouth ulcers.<\/p>\n In most cases of inflamed tonsils you will go see your physician and get a prescription for antibiotics along with following home care measures. If your tonsils are not that inflamed you may be able to let them heal on their own without going to your physician for antibiotics. There are certain health complications where you do need to seek medical care even if it is not a serious case of tonsillitis.<\/p>\n Some of these health complications include:<\/p>\n You should also seek medical care if your symptoms become worse or you develop new symptoms or the sore throat you have has lasted longer than two days.<\/p>\n It does not matter if you are or are not taking antibiotics there are some home care things that can do when you have inflamed tonsils, which are:<\/p>\n If you see a physician for your inflamed tonsils and it is determined that it is a bacterial infection your will be give a prescription for antibiotics which you will take for ten days. If your inflamed tonsils are caused by a virus you will not be given antibiotics because they do not work on viral infections.<\/p>\n If you have recurrent infections your physician may decide to perform a tonsillectomy, which is removing your tonsils. There are three criteria that must be met before they will consider removing your tonsils.<\/p>\n inflamed tonsils picture 1<\/a><\/p>\n inflamed tonsils picture 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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