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Core laryngitis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Last reviewed: 07.07.2025
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Usually, when measles laryngitis occurs, the measles virus affects the entire respiratory tree, so that the laryngeal disease is only a special case of the general inflammatory process in the upper and lower respiratory tract.
Pathological anatomy. In the initial stage, enanthema of the laryngeal mucosa occurs, and when exanthema appears (skin rashes typical of measles, disseminated spots appear on the mucous membrane, after which small superficial erosions remain, covered with a pseudomembranous coating, the origin of which is due to a secondary infection.
Symptoms and clinical course of laryngitis in measles. Subjective and objective manifestations of measles laryngitis are limited to catarrhal phenomena. With ulcerations and pseudomembranous plaques, hoarseness of the voice, a barking painful cough, and mucopurulent sputum appear. However, the clinical course and evolution of the disease are favorable and only in rare cases can complications such as edema, croup, and phlegmon of the larynx occur.
Diagnosis is facilitated by the presence of measles-specific symptoms.
Treatment of measles laryngitis is similar to that used for typhoid laryngitis. In addition, measles vaccines, serums, phages, vitamins and vitamin-like agents (Retinol, Retinol palmitate), antiviral agents (Inosine pranobex, Isoprinosine, Ribavirin, Flacoside) are used.
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