Laryngitis: contagious or not - check out our article!

Subcooling is one of the main external factors provoking the development of laryngitis. In second place is a viral infection, which is also capable of leading to laryngitis. In this case, the disease becomes contagious and transmitted by airborne droplets.

Main causes of

The disease is characterized by inflammation of the larynx, irritation in the ligaments, loss of voice. One of the most common causes of the development of laryngitis is a prolonged exposure to cold and exposure to a viral pathogen infection.

Laryngitis may develop again against other diseases, for example, pneumonia or tonsillitis. Very often this disease is diagnosed in heavy smokers. Vocalists suffer from the costs of the profession, in particular, if a long performance takes place on the street in the cool season. Also to the factors provoking laryngitis, include:

• the consequences of allergic reactions;
• transferred stressful situations;
• genetic predisposition to the disease.

How to recognize the disease?

1. A person begins to feel a sharp pain in the throat.
2. Body temperature can rise to 39 degrees.
3. In the study of blood there is an increased amount of white blood cells.
4. Feeling chill.
5. Difficulty in the voice, and a temporary loss of it.
6. Percolation in the throat.
7. Cough and attacks of suffocation.

This ailment can develop, both acute illness and chronic. Acute laryngitis occurs against a background of hypothermia, a strong overstrain of the vocal cords. There is inflammation of the mucous larynx, which lasts about two weeks. Also inflamed epiglottis and, of course, vocal cords. If acute laryngitis is not cured to the end, then it acquires a chronic form of the flow, and an inflammatory process in the nasopharynx is added to the complex of symptoms.

Is laryngitis an infectious disease?

In medical practice, two kinds of laryngitis are defined - non-contagious and infectious. Therefore, in order to have an idea of ​​how possible to become infected with laryngitis via the airborne pathway, it is necessary to consider in more detail the possible subtypes of the disease.

How does it happen?	Brief characteristic of laryngitis
Allergic	Odors, wool and other allergens can provoke an allergic reaction in any person. If you get into the larynx mucosa, irritation occurs, causing a cough, aggravating breathing. This type of disease is not contagious and the patient can easily contact with the surrounding
Emerging because of the predisposition of	It may happen that a child, due to a genetic predisposition, may suffer from laryngitis from an early age. This is due to the fact that his mother, being pregnant, may have had infectious ailments, used improper food - all these factors influenced the future child, making his body vulnerable to ARI.To infect people with this kind of laryngitis is impossible
Caused by the effects of nervous shock	Emotional external events can lead to different consequences, in particular, the spasmolytic reaction of the vocal cords. Such a reaction of the body does not lead to infectious laryngitis
Caused by the effects of taking medications	For example, the use of a spray for the throat can easily provoke the development of laryngitis. Such a reaction occurs due to the ingress of a drug stream onto the nerve endings, which as a result causes a pathological process in the vocal cords. The patient in the period of the disease is not able to infect other
Viral	This type of disease lends itself to home therapy and does not pose a threat to the health of others. The patient only needs regular inhalations and plenty of drinking. Last disease is not more than two weeks
Infectious	On the vocal cords accumulate pathogenic agents that lead to the development of laryngitis. The disease is contagious and transmitted to the surrounding airborne droplets. Complications of infectious laryngitis are in the inflammatory process of the respiratory tract
Bacterial	A sudden increase in temperature indicates that the patient has bacterial laryngitis caused by pathogenic bacteria. Such an ailment is contagious, especially during the sneezing of the patient, when the causative pathogens

Attention! Bacterial laryngitis can be infected from a person that has already been cured for three more days after the disappearance of all the symptoms.

Having examined all kinds of laryngitis, now it can be answered unequivocally that the danger to others is only two kinds - bacterial and infectious, which are transmitted by airborne droplets. If a person is sick with one of these types, it is recommended to avoid contacting him for two weeks or to contact using a medical dressing.

Diagnosis

To diagnose laryngitis does not require long laboratory tests, it is enough that a specialist of a narrow profile should examine the sore throat. Then, in an interview with the patient, the entire history and exciting symptomatology is recognized. To accurately confirm the diagnosis and identify the type of ailment, the patient is referred for a general blood test, laryngoscopy. Upon the establishment of the diagnosis, the physician determines the further therapy.

Comment from the doctor can be found in the video.

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Preventative measures

It is possible to reduce the risk of developing laryngitis if timely and correctly apply therapy in ARVI and ARI, tonsillitis, respiratory tract ailments. During treatment, folk remedies should act solely as an auxiliary therapy, but not be the main method. Do not neglect the prescription of the doctor.

Very high chances of losing laryngitis in heavy smokers and people who often drink alcohol. If laryngitis took place, then it is necessary to abandon bad habits and start a healthy lifestyle, because otherwise, a complete loss of voice is possible.

Additionally recommended:

• air in a room where most of the time a person spends, should always be hydrated;
• on the surfaces in the living room there should be no dust( this can trigger allergic laryngitis);
• regularly take vitamin-mineral complexes to strengthen the protective functions of the immune system;
• avoid hypothermia;
• from time to time to carry out manipulations to clean the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract - it uses inhalers;
• to treat viral diseases in a timely manner;
• to temper the body.

This is important! Therapy for laryngitis should last until all symptoms disappear completely.

Recommendations for treatment of

If the first signs of inflammation occur, then you should immediately go to the doctor. This disease is quite serious, because it can lead to complications and different consequences.

The course of treatment in this case is appointed after the analysis and identify the exact form of laryngitis. Reception of antibiotics is prescribed exclusively in case of a bacterial appearance of the disease. General recommendations include:

• bed rest;
• regular gargling( it is very important that they are alkaline solutions);
• copious drink;
• application of inhalations based on herbs;
• use of anti-inflammatory drugs.

You can find out about the symptoms and treatment by reviewing the program fragment.

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