Symptoms
Like redness, swelling, overheating and functional impairment, pain is a classic sign of inflammation.If pain occurs in the mouth/throat area, for example when swallowing or chewing, this may indicate an inflammatory change. Depending on the extent to which the inflammation affects the mucous membrane in the mouth/throat area, the pain can easily be assigned to a specific structure. In many cases, however, an infection in the throat area also causes an inflammatory reaction in other parts of the mucous membrane in the throat or mouth.
Pus in the context of inflammation of the mouth and throat area usually indicates an infection with bacteria. In the course of the immune system‘s defence against infection, the inflamed tissue is destroyed, so that cell debris, destroyed bacteria and lost white blood cells accumulate to form pus, which can then be seen as a mostly white-yellowish coating on the mucous membrane. The pus can either cover a larger area, i.e. impress like a coating, or it can be more selective, like spots spread over the mucosa.
The swelling itself is a general symptom in the context of an inflammation, which at first does not say anything about its cause. The classic signs of inflammation also include redness, pain, overheating and functional impairment in this area. Swelling always occurs when an inflammation increases the permeability of the smallest blood vessels supplying the area so that more fluid escapes into the surrounding tissue.
This results in a kind of water accumulation. Inflammation of the palate or the mouth and throat area in general can also cause swelling, typically affecting the surrounding tissue:
- Gums
- Mucosa on the palate
- Uvula
- Soft palate
- Palatal tonsils.
- Swollen palate
- Bump on the palate
If painful blisters occur in the course of inflammatory changes on the palate or in the mouth/throat area, this may be an indication of infection with certain viruses. Among the vesicular viruses are e.g. the herpes simplex viruses, which also cause the well-known painful blisters on the lips, but varicella can also cause blisters in the mouth.
Most frequently, however, these are so-called aphthae, the cause of which is not yet completely clear. Often these small, initially blister-like, then rather crater-like mucous membrane damages occur in connection with infections or stress. Very rarely, certain blistering autoimmune diseases of the skin and mucous membrane can also be the cause of blistering.
