Acute Pharyngitis: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment?
What is Acute pharyngitis?
Acute pharyngitis is an acute inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa, submucosal tissues, and lymphatic tissues. The disease is often a prodromal symptom of various other infectious diseases. It can occur alone, and often secondary to acute rhinitis or tonsillitis, which occurs in autumn and winter. And at the turn of winter and spring; often due to cold, excessive fatigue, excessive smoking, and alcohol, etc., the body and local resistance is reduced, pathogenic microorganisms take advantage of the deficiency and cause this disease; malnutrition, chronic heart, kidney, and joint diseases, life and Poor working environment are prone to this disease. The pathogenic microorganisms are mainly hemolytic streptococcus, pneumococcus, influenza bacillus, and viruses. Pharyngeal inflammation involves acute edema caused by the epiglottis, which can cause death from suffocation.