How long can you have tonsillitis?
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at
5:42 pm
I’ve had tonsillitis for about over a month. For about a week or two I had some usual symptoms like sore throat and painful swallowing but they all went away. Now for the past week or two all I’ve had is this white patch on one of my tonsils, it doesn’t look like its gotten swollen or anything. I’ve tried lime juice but I don’t think it really helped. Is there anything else I can do? can it go away by itself? or should I just go see a doctor?
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I use to get tonsillitis frequently as a teenager…it was horrible. I went to a Ear, Nose & Throat doctor when I was in my early twenties and was told my tonsils were severely infected and they advised I have them removed….so I did and haven’t been sick with tonsillitis again. I would suggest you see a doctor……having them removed has made my live so much easier! Good luck.
You will need a doctors help this time as it sounds like a bacterial infection-Strep throat.
Doc will prescribe antibiotic which will soon clear it up.
You can try gargling several times a day with antiseptic mouthwash in hot water-That might shift the white patch(pus)
Nine times out of ten it’s Strep and you need an antibiotic to clean it up because it will come back.