Every year in winter, angina returns and continues to affect thousands of people. For Yahoo, Doctor Christian Recchia warned of the underestimated danger of this disease, once perceived, quite rightly, as serious.
Today, having sore throat in winter has almost become… commonplace. However, as Dr. Christian Recchia explains for Yahoo, this disease should not be taken lightly and be treated like a common cold because it can cause heart valve damage. Indeed, if it is not treated correctly, heart failure can then occur, a pathological condition in which the heart is no longer able to perform its role as a pump, and therefore to properly supply the body. A situation that can force the patient to undergo a valve transplant.
“These valve pathologies are reappearing. It’s not trivial”, he confided, regretting that angina diagnoses are not made correctly today. As he would like to point out, angina was once perceived, quite rightly, as a serious illness. “30 years ago, everyone knew it was serious, that it took 5 to 16 days of antibiotics and that it was especially necessary to go to the end of the treatment.”
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Make “a diagnosis on the origin of bacteria”
Faced with this observation and to avoid any type of inconvenience, he therefore recalls the importance of doing, when a sore throat occurs, “a diagnosis on the origin of bacteria”. And if it is indeed angina, and not pharyngitis, a cold or an ear infection as some may hear, then an exhaustive treatment is necessary. “Each year, there are nine million cases of angina diagnosed and today there is a five times greater risk of valve damage because there are five times a month of patients who are treated correctly”did he declare.
As a reminder, angina is an inflammation of the tonsils of infectious origin. It is manifested by a sore throat causing difficulty in swallowing and by fever (between 38°C and 39°C). Other symptoms (cough, cold, digestive disorders, etc.) may also be present.
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