Acute laryngitis

Acute laryngitis's disease overview

What is

laryngitis?

laryngitis is the mucosa of the larynx, edema sometimes with ulcers and spread to deeper layers to cause muscle inflammation, cartilage necrosis, dragging with swollen rods minus. Laryngitis lasts less than 3 weeks, it is called acute laryngitis . Acute laryngitis is the result of many causes including cold infections, or upper respiratory infections. Symptoms of acute laryngitis usually include hoarseness and sore throat. Treatment of acute laryngitis often has good results, but if the treatment is ineffective can lead to chronic laryngitis.

Acute laryngitis can be classified based on age: Acute laryngitis in children and acute laryngitis in adults. Acute laryngitis in children is common in the context of acute bronchitis, common in boys than scratching, between 6 and 36 months of age, the most popular when children are 2 years old. Acute laryngitis is common in adults at a lower rate. Acute laryngitis is common in the fall.

Causes of Acute laryngitis's disease

There are many causes of acute laryngitis. Most of the cases of acute laryngitis are temporary and well recovered when the cause is solved. The pathogens include:

  • The virus is the most common pathogen, similar to the cold, commonly: Influenzae (influenza), APC ...
  • Bacteria that cause disease in fewer cases, such as pneumococcal, hemophilus influenzae. Diphtheria bacillus today is less common because the rate of diphtheria vaccination is increasing.
  • Shouting too much

    • Symptoms of Acute laryngitis's disease

    In most cases of acute laryngitis symptoms only last for a few weeks and quite gentle. A few cases of acute laryngitis appear with heavy manifestations. Symptoms of acute laryngitis include:

    Symptoms of body

    patients often have fever, chills, and fatigue. The level of dependence and cause of disease.

    Mechanical symptoms

    hoarseness, hoarseness in children, dry coughs can have phlegm. Acute laryngitis in children may have difficulty laryngeal breathing, especially in laryngitis, the larynx of the lower subject, the life is life -threatening if not detected in time. Sore throat, uncomfortable feeling like there is an object in the throat

    Physical symptoms:
  • Red throat mucosa, tonsils can be swollen.
  • Red and red larynx mucosa.
  • Red congestion sound wire, edematous edema with mucus on the front edge of the rod.

    • Symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections such as headaches, fatigue, runny nose usually appear first. Next, the voice is hoarse, sometimes hoarse, even losing his voice. Symptoms usually last for a few days. The disease usually recovers within 1 week. Symptoms can last longer.

    Patients need medical facilities as soon as there are signs:

  • Difficulty breathing
  • Hematuria
  • Sore throat increases much

    • High fever, not responding to antipyretic drugs

    Exploiting drool in children

    Acute laryngitis for a long time can lead to complications such as bronchitis, pneumonia, causing heavy breathing in life.

    The main transmission is respiratory, especially in people who are suffering from upper respiratory infections.

    People at risk for Acute laryngitis's disease

    Pacific causes facing favorable conditions will easily penetrate and cause acute laryngitis. Those risk factors are:

  • Respiratory infections: Sinusitis, influenza, lung disease, tonsillectomy, and VA in children. Common when the weather changes suddenly, the body is not adaptable so it is easy to infect.

    • Exposure to cigarette smoke

    Diabetes in the elderly.

  • Use exertion: talk a lot, speak loudly, scream or sing too loudly
  • Choking stimulants: beer, wine ...
  • Reading throat, larynx.
    • allergies.

    Prevention of Acute laryngitis's disease

    To prevent the laryngitis , note:

  • No smoking, avoiding contact with cigarette smoke. Smoking to dry out the throat and stimulate the sound wire.

    • Limit alcohol and caffeine. These are two agents that dehydrated the body.

  • Drink plenty of water to help maintain the mucus in the throat.
  • Avoid eating spicy foods because this food is easy to stimulate the stomach causing gastroesophageal reflux.
  • Eat enough nutrients, lots of vegetables and fruits. These foods are high in vitamins A, E, and C to help maintain a layer of throat mucus.
  • Avoid many upper respiratory traces. Wash your hands regularly and avoid contact with people with upper respiratory infections like the flu.  
  • Strengthen the body's resistance to combat the penetration of viruses and bacteria. Keep children warm in the cold season, avoid overuse of adults.

    • When detecting acute laryngitis in children should be closely monitored to prevent bad progress.

    Diagnostic measures for Acute laryngitis's disease

    Diagnosis acute laryngitis is mainly based on prehistoric exploitation and clinical symptoms. Subclinical tests support the diagnosis and assessment of the severity of the disease.

  • History of patients: exploiting a history of exposure to cigarette smoke, using alcohol, contact with people with flu, ...
  • Clinically with symptoms of sore throat, hoarseness, losing laryngeal, laryngoscopy shows the mucosa of the throat and laryngeal edema, congestion rods; There may be high fever, fatigue.

    • Subclinical tests: Blood formula can increase and perform pulmonary heart X -ray to eliminate the attached bronchial disease.

    Acute laryngitis's disease treatments

    Medicine treatment

    acute laryngitis usually goes away on its own for about 1 week. Improve the care to improve the disease by measures:

  • Breathing of damp air: Can use a humidifier
  • Limit speaking or singing too big or too long. If it is necessary to say, microphone can be used
  • Avoid whispering because it will even stretch the sound more.

    • Avoid nasal sprays because of drying throat.

  • Fully eat nutrients, supplement vitamins A, C, E.
    • Medicinal treatment

    drug groups are often seriously indicated acute laryngitis :

  • Antibiotics: usually unnecessary in most cases because the main cause is viral. Antibiotics are usually indicated when acute laryngitis caused by bacteria. Patients must not arbitrarily treat antibiotics at home. The improper treatment of antibiotics increases the percentage of resistance bacteria and reduces the effectiveness of later treatment. When there are abnormal symptoms as mentioned above, patients need to visit an ear, nose and throat specialist for advice and proper treatment.

    • corticosteroids can reduce sound lacing. However, this group of drugs is usually recommended only when the patient needs to regain his voice as soon as possible as a presentation and speech. Prednisolon, methylprednisolon, dexamethasone ... are often used.

  • Normal antipyretic analgesics such as paracetamol, aspirin, ...
    • Surgical treatment
  • Cases of acute laryngitis with difficulty breathing in laryngeal level II, degree III need to open emergency trachea.

    • In short, acute laryngitis may be encountered at any age and can go away within 1 week. However, acute laryngitis in children should be carefully monitored to promptly detect bad progress of the disease.

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