A time-tested penny iodine-based drug, despite the dizzying amount of "competitors" on pharmacy shelves, remains in demand. Lugol solution in angina is the number one remedy - treatment of the tonsils in the first days of the disease provides a speedy recovery and pain relief.
How does the lugol work?
As part of the drug, the first violin is molecular iodine. Auxiliary components: potassium iodide and water. Effective in angina lyugol with glycerin - the substance has a softening effect, because the drug does not so dry the mucous throat.
Iodine fights well with Gram-positive and Gram-negative flora (except Pseudomonas aeruginosa), as well as some pathogenic fungi. Staphylococcus is one of the main pathogens of the causative agent of tonsillitis - it is susceptible to iodine during prolonged exposure. Therefore, the use of lugol with staphylococcal angina gives a result after several days of treatment.
In addition to bactericidal, iodine also has a wound healing effect, but it irritates the mucosa a little, so when buying the drug, it is worth making sure that the composition does contain glycerol.
How to use lugol at angina?
The drug is very effective in uncomplicated cases of tonsillitis, it is used in conjunction with a prescribed treatment. If the temperature lasts for several days, they resort to taking antibiotics. It is believed that with a pronounced suppurative angina, the lugol is useless and even harmful, a thick solution, enveloping the tonsils, prevents their purification from pus.
To treat the sore throat, you need to rewind the pencil or medical tweezers with sterile cotton wool, dab it in the solution, and then carefully blot the inflamed tonsils. It is necessary to avoid touching the back wall of the larynx (especially if manipulations are carried out with the child). it can provoke a vomitive reflex.
The throat is treated several times a day. With a small purulent process, it is effective to first clean the tonsils from the plaque moistened with hydrogen peroxide (3%), and then treat them with lugol.
Is it possible to treat angina with lugol?
Often there is a confusion between the concepts of tonsillitis (angina) and pharyngitis. The first disease is caused by bacteria, mainly streptococcus, which is sensitive to iodine, as well as to antibiotics. With angina, the tonsils become inflamed, it becomes very painful to swallow, especially in the second half of the day. The condition is almost always accompanied by a temperature above 38 ° C. Treatment of angina (tonsillitis) lyugol is appropriate and effective.
With pharyngitis, the back wall of the throat inflames, and not locally the tonsils - this is one of the first signs of a cold, which is caused by viruses. The temperature is low (up to 37,5 ° C), the peak of pain is in the morning, a sip of warm tea brings relief. To treat with lugol the pain in the throat caused by a cold is meaningless and harmful, because iodine can burn already
Overdose and contraindications
Long use of lugol can lead to the so-called. iodism: the condition is characterized by urticaria, abundant salivation, rhinitis and in some cases Quincke's edema. So can be manifested and an allergy to iodine - in this case, the drug will have to be abandoned.
You can not use lugol in angina to children under 5 years old, pregnant. Iodine penetrates into the milk of nursing mothers, so treatment with the drug during lactemia is only permissible as a last resort. Contraindicated lyugol people with hyperfunction of the thyroid gland and those who have an individual intolerance to iodine.