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Remedies for the treatment of adenoids
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Adenoids are the overgrowth of the nasopharyngeal (pharyngeal) tonsil, which appears as a result of a chronic inflammatory course. To treat adenoids is necessary, since the malaise gives its "owner" a lot of inconveniences, such as: shortness of breath, restless sleep, purulent-mucous discharge from the nasal cavity, etc. Therefore, in order to restore normal breathing, doctors sometimes recommend the removal of adenoids.
With surgical intervention should not rush, because the treatment of adenoids is very diverse and effective. These include physiotherapy, laser therapy, electrotherapy (electrophoresis, UHF, EHF, magnetotherapy), cryotherapy, phytotherapy.
Means of treatment of adenoids with the help of physiotherapy
They are used in combination with medicinal and vitamin therapies: antihistamines (claritin, pipolphen, diazolin, tavegil, etc.), vasoconstrictive ("Xylen", "Galazolin", "Vibrocil", etc.), antibacterial drops (bioparox, protargol , Albucid), multivitamins ("Jungle", "Vitrum", "Multi-Tabs" and so on), immunostimulants ("Broncho-munal").
Means of treatment of adenoids with the help of electrophoresis represent the introduction into the nasal cavity of the patient of various medicinal solutions that help to relieve the inflammatory course and reduce edema. These funds include potassium iodide, calcium chloride, diphenhydramine and so on.
Ultrafrequency magnetic fields (UHF) are used in cases where there is an exacerbation of the inflammatory process in the nasal cavity. Exposure to currents can reduce the degree of inflammation, relieving the patient of pain and discomfort in swallowing and breathing.
Means of treatment of adenoids by means of extremely high-frequency therapy is a procedure with practically no contraindications. This method is the effect on the body of the energy of electromagnetic very high-frequency waves. The influence of waves is made on certain points of the human body, which "remind" the body of those times when he was perfectly healthy.
Magnetotherapy - another treatment for adenoids, which allows you to get rid of the disease. Therapy with magnetotherapy is to use a low-frequency and high-frequency alternating or permanent magnetic field. As a result, electric currents arise, under the influence of which the physicochemical properties of the cells of different tissues change. In addition, magnetotherapy causes the acceleration of metabolic processes in the body. The local effect of the magnetic field leads to an improvement in the state of the vascular and nervous system, an increase in the body's defenses.
Cryotherapy is a means of treating adenoids with the help of express freezing. Thanks to cryotherapy, there is no long-term adverse effect on adenoids, the procedure lasts only 6-120 seconds. The results of therapy by this method do not take long to wait - after the end of the procedure the patient feels pain reduction, the bad odor from the oral cavity associated with the course of the disease disappears, and the adenoids themselves decrease in size and with each subsequent session (5-10) cryotherapy completely return to its former size. Cryotherapy is an absolutely painless treatment for adenoids, which does not affect the general state of the body.
Treatment of adenoids by laser
This is a modern, effective, painless way to fight the disease. With a medical laser, the doctor works on inflamed tonsils, thus providing anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, and also returns the adenoids to their normal size and restores their structure. Treatment of adenoids with a laser allows the patient to begin to breathe in freely, since the inflammatory focus is completely eliminated. In addition, after laser therapy, adenoids do not disappear, but continue to exist and fulfill their functional duties.
Alternative treatment of adenoids
A wonderful non-medicament way to get rid of the disease. For example, to gargle the throat, apply mixtures of herbs chamomile and linden; crushed onion with honey.
For drinking herbal mixtures:
- Icelandic moss and thyme;
- leaves of raspberry, sage leaves, linden flowers, peppermint with honey;
- grass oregano, willow bark, linden flowers, anise fruits.
For instillation in the nose: tincture of anise, tincture of calendula.
For rubbing: fir oil should be rubbed in the area of the chest and collar zone. Massage the feet with oil at least 4 times a day.
For inhalations: kidney pine. Fill 20 grams of chopped kidney pine with a glass of boiling water. 10 minutes boil in a water bath, insist 30 minutes. You can apply without filtering.
Alternative treatment of adenoids with juices is another very effective method of getting rid of the disease.
- Freshly squeezed juice from aloe leaves is mixed with the same amount of water. Use to rinse your throat and instill drip.
- 10 tablespoons of carrot juice mixed with 6 tablespoons. Spinach and take this mixture on an empty stomach every day.
- Juice from the celandine large bury at least three drops of 1 day.
- Juice from beet is digested three times a day for 4 drops. Cotton swabs, moisten with this juice and pawn in the nose.
For prevention and therapy of adenoids recommend respiratory gymnastics.
Exercises with inflating balls, bubbling water through a tube, etc., as well as swimming in the pool, swimming in the lake, the river - all this contributes to the recovery of nasal breathing and is aimed at increasing the body's defenses.
Hardening of the body plays a role in the general therapy of adenoids. Foot baths, starting with room temperature, gradually reducing it by one degree, increasing the time of taking a bath. Preferable mobile games during a three-hour walk, regardless of the weather.
Before applying to treat adenoids with any unconventional method, you should always consult a specialist.