What is the white spot on the tonsils?

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Chronic tonsillitis, granulomatous tonsillitis is a very common disease in all different subjects, especially when time has erratic changes. For patients with granulomatous tonsillitis, on the surface of the tonsils with pus will appear ivory white particles that look like fragments of peanuts, these particles often have a foul smell, making the patient feel difficult to swallow.
White spots on the surface of the tonsils are usually pus formed when white blood cells destroy bacteria and viruses attack the tissues in the throat of patients with purulent tonsillitis or chronic tonsillitis, strep throat. bacteria or other infections.
Tonsillitis with white spots may appear only on the surface of the tonsils or spread throughout the mouth of patients with purulent tonsillitis, accompanying symptoms may be sore throat, sneezing, fever, nasal congestion, difficulty swallowing... In many cases, patients find it difficult to breathe because the tonsils swell and partially block the airway.
The tonsils have pus and white granular spots about the size of a grain of rice, ivory white like the shape of peanut fragments, distributed around the tonsils or spread throughout the mouth, giving off a very bad odor when broken, sometimes When the white spots protrude into the crevices on the surface of the tonsils causing discomfort and entanglement, these white spots contain pus inside and form a white streak behind the throat or around the tonsils with pus.
When the tonsils have white spots, it can be a warning sign of diseases: Tonsillitis (in which, tonsillitis is a chronic condition because the tonsils have many niches containing substances such as bean pulp), tonsil stones ( According to statistics, up to 87.5% of patients have tonsil stones due to pyogenic tonsillitis, chronic tonsillitis), oral thrush, pharyngitis, mononucleosis (especially in adolescents) If you have an immature immune system, there will be patches of pus in the throat and around the tonsils like pus-filled tonsils; swollen lymph nodes, red rash).
When the tonsils appear white spots, the patient needs to gargle with physiological saline daily and use treatment drugs as directed by the doctor.

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