Symptoms of laryngitis and its treatment. How to recognize acute laryngitis in children and adults and timely start treatment.
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Larygitis, or inflammation of the larynx, can be sharp and chronic. It happens catarrhal, infiltrative, phlegmonous, pinned (in the form of a false camp). The symptoms of laryngitis depend on the form, the duration of the disease, the attachment of the concomitant diseases.
Symptoms of acute laryngitis: catarrhal
Symptoms of acute laryngitis are divided into common and local. Common signs of disease include temperature rise (usually small) and unbearable weakness.
Local symptoms are called pathognomonic — that is, appear only with this disease. These include:
- hoarseness;
- sore throat;
- the discomfort;
- Feeling in the throat of a foreign body;
- Occasionally a dry cough, over time, turning into wet.
An important symptom of acute catarrhal laryngitis is changes in voice — So-called diephony. Hope, peptation and even loss of votes say that the inflammatory process affected voice ligaments. The appearance of this feature allows you to diagnose the disease almost with one hundred percent accuracy.
Symptoms of acute laryngitis: infiltrative form
Infiltrative form of acute laryngitis occurs when the inflammation of inclination is spread. If only the mucous membrane of the larynx is affected during the catarrhal, then the submucosal layer, muscles, cartilage and their articulations are affected here.
The clinical picture of this form is much brighter. The symptoms described above are much stronger than. The patient increases the temperature, it complains of poor well-being. In terms of infiltrative process, sore throat arise. A distinctive feature here is strengthening them when swallowing. The voice can aby. There is a strong cough, during which the destruction of thick mucous-purulent sputum is observed.
At this stage of the disease, impaired respiratory function may appear — Breath difficulty, feeling of air shortness.
With inadequate treatment or special aggressiveness of the microbe, which caused acute laryngitis, the infiltrative form moves into phlegmonous. General symptoms at the same time becomes especially bright. Body temperature rises to very high digits — 39-40 degrees Celsius, octants appear, weakness becomes very pronounced. Breathing difficulties are noted almost every patient, sometimes leading to the attacks of suffocation.
The natural outcome of this form is the abscess of larynx — The appearance of the cavity with purulent contents.
Symptoms of pinned laryngitis or false cereals
This disease is considered extremely dangerous. It is found in children, usually under the age of 5-8 years. Because of the high loosenness of the intramuscular tissue of the larynx, it reacts very sharply to the infection.
The disease usually begins with a conventional respiratory infection with embossing and discharge from the nose. Temperature more often subfebrile — up to 38 degrees, there is a cough. Suddenly, the child begins the attack of a suffocation, the cough becomes «barking», Skin Covers Shine. The patient makes serious effort to breathe. In the process of breath, the skin is drawn in the test and jugs, the top of the abdomen.
At the height of the attack can occur the so-called stenosis of the larynx — Full closure of lumen of the upper respiratory tract. Without emergency measures, the child will inevitably die.
If the stenosis did not happen, the attack gradually weakens, coming on no within a few minutes (until half an hour).
Treatment of acute laryngitis
With uncomplicated forms, treatment of acute laryngitis does not represent difficulties and is produced in outpatient conditions. First of all, gentle voice regime is introduced, recommending the patient to be silent. Whisper strains voice ligaments no less than normal speech, so it is also not welcome. Eliminate alcoholic beverages, smoking, acute food.
Medical therapy is mainly locally. Inhalation and irrigation of the mucous membrane of the larynx with solutions of antiseptics, antibiotics, corticosteroids and antihistamine.
With complicated forms, in addition to the methods described above, the introduction of antibiotics and antiforms in the form of injections. In the event of an abscess of abscess, a small operation on the opening of an ulcer.
With asphyxia caused by false croup, the only method of salvation of the child's life is tracheotomy. At the same time, the doctor produces a slit of trachea below the location of the voice ligaments. Thus, the air begins to enter the respiratory system. Considering the circumstances, tracheotomy is allowed to carry out any kind of acute subject, even non-sterile.
