What is pharyngitis?
Under this disease in medicine, it is customary to understand the inflammatory process, which affects the back wall of the pharynx directly. In its current, it is customary to allocate acute and chronic forms.
The acute develops suddenly, against the background of general well-being. It lasts for several days. Accompanied by:
- the appearance of dryness;
- Persecutions in the throat;
- pain when swallowing;
- a slight increase in temperature - up to 38 degrees.
Chronic pharyngitis is characterized by a prolonged course with periodic exacerbations, for which the symptomatology described above is characteristic.
Treatment of pharyngitis in pregnancy
It must be said that the treatment of any disease in pregnant women, including pharyngitis, should be carried out exclusively under the supervision of a doctor.
Therapeutic measures completely depend on the type of disease, its stage, the severity of symptoms, the gestational age. If to speak, how to treat to pregnant women a pharyngitis of the acute form, the main moments of therapy are:
- treatment of pharyngeal walls with antiseptic. As such - Lizobakt, broth of chamomile, calendula, Miramistin, Chlorhexidine every 2 hours;
- use of drugs-immunomodulators - Viferon, Anaferon, Immunal;
- at the expressed edema - treatment of a throat kollargolom, 5% tannin-glycerin;
- when the temperature rises - Paracetamol.
Speaking about how to treat chronic pharyngitis in pregnancy, it is worth noting that the therapy of this form is done somewhat differently:
- rinsing of the throat with 1% sodium chloride, sea purified water;
- inhalation with mineral water - Borjomi;
- treatment of the posterior wall of the throat by retinol acetate, a mixture of vitamin A and sea-buckthorn oil (2: 1);
- Vitamin A inside (2 drops 2 times a day).
Thus, it is possible to cure such a disease as a pharyngitis that has arisen in a pregnant woman, by carrying out complex therapy.