Infants/children

Particularly in infants or children, the red spots on the palate together with a purulent tonsillitis and a red rash that can extend over the entire body can indicate scarlet fever. Many toddlers and children between the ages of four and seven years old experience the disease one or, in rare cases, several times.Since the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes has several different species, all of which in turn can cause scarlet fever, the disease can repeat itself more often, since humans only produce antibodies against one species and thus produce defenses. This is not a bad thing, but the children should receive a correct diagnosis in time to receive an adequate therapy.

Therapy

When treating red spots on the palate, it is especially important to know what causes these red spots. If the red spots are caused by an intolerance or an allergy, the patient usually cannot get a proper therapy, it is much more important to avoid the food that causes them. Some patients respond well to hyposensitization therapy.

Here it is tried to accustom the patient to the means, which releases the allergy. For this purpose, small doses of the allergenic substance are injected into the patient’s upper arm over a period of several years so that the body has to deal with it and gradually gets used to it. This therapeutic measure is particularly successful for hay fever allergy sufferers, but less so for patients who are allergic to food, so the simplest and best therapy is to avoid the food.

If the patient has the red spots due to tonsillitis, he can first try to get the infection under control by gargling with home remedies such as ginger tea, chamomile tea or sage. If this does not work, the patient should see a doctor early, especially if pus forms on the tonsils. The doctor can then prescribe the patient an antibiotic, which he or she takes in the form of tablets.

If it is a scarlet fever infection, which is particularly common in small children, the child can either be treated symptomatically or treated with antibiotics. Symptomatic therapy may include, for example, suppositories to reduce fever or pain-relieving lozenges. Home remedies can also be used, but these should be strictly monitored by a doctor so that the patient can always be adjusted to antibiotic therapy if the symptoms get worse.