Open AccessEDUCATIONAL SURVEY ABOUT AWARENESS OF TONSILLITIS IN BABYLON PROVINCE
Author(s) -
Samah A. K. AL-jebory,
Ruqaya M. Ewadh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
al-mağallaẗ al-ʿirāqiyyaẗ li-buḥūṯ al-sūq wa-ḥimāyaẗ al-mustahlik/al-mağallaẗ al-ʿirāqiyyaẗ li-buḥūṯ al-sūq wa-ḥimāyaẗ al-mustahlik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2523-6180
pISSN - 2071-3894
DOI - 10.28936/jmracpc13.1.2021.(11
Subject(s) - tonsillitis , sore throat , acute tonsillitis , medicine , throat , swallowing , dermatology , chronic tonsillitis , dysphagia , complication , immunology , surgery , tonsillectomy
Tonsillitis is an infection or inflammation of the tonsils. Tonsillitis classified as acute, chronic (recurrent) and complication. Most often it is caused by a virus, but it may also be caused by the same bacteria that cause strep throat. According to numbers that data shows, the virus is more common, about 77.49% than bacterial which about 71.45% then fungal about 9.6%. The principal symptom of tonsillitis is a sore throat fever, swollen lymph nodes, nasal congestion, difficulty in swallowing and headache may also occur, according to if symptoms of tonsillitis are known or not, data show that they know about (119 of people) (79.3) this result is greater than unknown which was about 31 (20.7).