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Tonsillitis and adenoiditis - Coggle Diagram
Tonsillitis and adenoiditis
Nursing care plan
Encourage fluid intake
Provide family teaching
Prevent aspiration
Relief pain
Make the patient comfortable
Causes
Bacterial
Immunologic
Epstein-Barr virus
Sings and symptoms
Headache
Red and swallen tonsils
Difficult or painful swallowing
Fever
Sore throat
Yellow or white coating or patches on the tonsils
Enlarge and tender glands in the neck
Bad breath
Throaty voice and scratchy throat
Diagnostic tests
Throat swab
Blood test
Treatment
Analgesic
Tonsillectomy
Antibiotics like penicillin
Pathophysiology
Infection of the tonsils and adenoids may be secondary to upper respiratory tract infection
The tonsils become edematous and hyperaemic
Thin White membrane that peels away easily without breeding farms over their tonsils
This may cause partial deafness or may become a source of infection in itself
Lymphoid tissue normally enlarges
Definition
Tonsillitis and adenoids and other lymphoid tissue encircles the the throat at the root of the nasopharynx. These structures are important links in the chain of lymph note guarding the body from invasion by organisms entering the nose and the throat