Hello and welcome to the Zero to Finals podcast.

My name is Tom, and in this episode of a new series on Ear, Nose and Throat Pathology,

we'll be going through tonsillitis.

And if you want to follow along with written notes on this topic,

you can follow along at zero tofinals.com slash tonsillitis,

or in the E&T section of the

Zero Definals Pediatrics book. So let's get straight into it. Tonsolitis refers to

inflammation of the tonsils. The most common cause of tonsillitis is a viral infection.

Viral infections do not require or respond to antibiotics.

The most common cause of bacterial tonsillitis is Group A Streptococcus, or Streptoccus pyogenes.

This can be effectively treated with penicillin V, which is also known as phenoxal methyl

methalin.

The next most common cause of bacterial tonsillitis, which also happens to be the most

common cause of bacterial otitis media and rhinocinocytus is streptoccus pneumoniae.

Other causes are hemophilus influenza,

Moraxella, catarales, and staphlococcus aureus.

Let's start by discussing Woldeus tonsila ring.

In the pharynx at the back of the throat,

there is a ring of lymphoid tissue.

There are six areas of lymphoid tissue making up the adenoids, the tubal tonsils, the palatine tonsils, and

the lingual tonsils. The palatine tonsils are the ones typically infected and enlarged in tonsillitis.

These are the tonsils on either side at the back

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