Tonsillitis chronic - an inflammation of tonsils; are ill both adults, and children. As the reason repeated anginas, less often other acute infectious diseases (a scarlatina, a diphtheria) serve. To development of an adenoid disease promote proof disturbance of nasal respiration (adenoides, a curvature of a nasal septum), diseases about nasal sinuses, a carious teeth, a chronic catarral pharyngitis, a chronic rhinitis.

Signs, current. Sensation of an alien body in a drink in the field of the tonsils, a unpleasant smell from a mouth, an expectoration so-called a proside - the caseous masses formed in lacunas of tonsils, an insignificant periodically arising pain at a swallowing, sometimes giving to an ear. Quite often disease is accompanied long (within several weeks and even months) by a subfebrile condition, dropping of working capacity, a headache, sometimes fits of coughing of a reflex parentage. Some sick of an adenoid disease do not show any complaints. Complications are frequent: a lesion of heart, joints, the general delicacy, a sweating. Development of rheumatic disease, a nephritis is possible.