Angina is a common infectious disease that affects the lymphoid tissue of the palatine tonsils. Angina is also called acute tonsillitis.
Children with angina should stay at home, do not let them go to school or kindergarten - firstly, this can lead to complications, and secondly, you expose the rest of the children in the team to the danger of becoming infected. Indeed, angina is a very contagious disease, especially in the first 4 days of the acute period.
Angina is always acute, with fever, severe sore throat, intoxication. In this state, a person inevitably loses his ability to work.
Adults, just like children, should stay at home throughout the course of treatment. If you have a sore throat, you should take sick leave. For how many days is sick leave prescribed for acute tonsillitis? It all depends on the severity of the disease, the epidemiological situation and other factors.
In this article, we will tell you how many days a person loses the ability to work with angina, and also talk about in what cases the sick leave is extended.
What determines the duration of the sick leave?
How does the doctor determine for how many days to open the sick leave? The doctor suggests for how long the patient's working capacity will decrease during the illness, and how quickly it will recover. It is believed that a person should leave the hospital fully recovered.
The time during which the patient will be disabled determines many factors:
- type of pathogen;
- the nature of the course of the disease;
- the state of the patient's immunity;
- the presence of chronic diseases;
- the age of the patient;
- social and climatic conditions in which the patient lives and works.
With angina, there is a temporary disability.
It is believed that a person with angina should be kept in bed throughout the entire period of treatment. That is why the certificate of incapacity for work must fully cover the duration of the course of treatment.
Duration of treatment for sore throat
With the timely start of treatment, the patient feels a significant improvement on the 3-4th day of therapy; already on the 5-6th day of treatment, most patients can engage in vigorous activity. A rapid improvement in well-being indicates the correct choice of treatment, in particular, an antibacterial drug. So, with a high sensitivity of the bacteria to the selected antibiotic, the high temperature returns to normal already on the first day of taking the drug.
At the same time, an improvement in well-being does not always indicate a complete recovery. So, the body may still have a focus of infection.
Medical research suggests that it takes 7 to 14 days to completely eradicate the infection (depending on the bacteria that caused the disease).
In order to avoid the development of complications with bacterial angina, the course of antibiotic treatment is usually 10-14 days. All this time, it is advisable to lead a calm lifestyle, have a lot of rest and stay at home.
Adjuvant therapy measures accelerate recovery:
- drinking plenty of fluids;
- gargling with antiseptic solutions;
- steam inhalation (in the absence of pus and normal body temperature);
- fortified food.
Duration of sick leave for angina
We figured out that it takes 7 to 14 days to fully recover from acute tonsillitis. Thus, the sick leave must cover this time. For how many days are sick leave for angina in our clinics?
According to the current legislation, in case of ARVI symptoms, the doctor opens the sick leave for 3 days, and then, if necessary, extends it for another 3 days. During a period of epidemiological tension (for example, during a flu epidemic), the doctor can issue a sick leave immediately for 5 days.
With severe symptoms of angina (high body temperature, severe sore throat, the presence of purulent plaque on the tonsils), the doctor opens a sick leave for 7 days. After 7 days of treatment, the doctor must re-examine the patient. During the examination, the doctor makes a conclusion about the effectiveness of therapy, the advisability of extending it, as well as the need to extend the certificate of incapacity for work.
To extend the sick leave, the attending physician must consult with the head of the department of otolaryngology or therapy. The head of the department is obliged to examine the patient and issue an opinion - whether to extend the sick leave or not. In this case, the certificate of incapacity for work is extended by 3, 5, 7 or 10 days.
If the patient is hospitalized for sore throat, the procedure for issuing sick leave is somewhat different. Patients receive a certificate of incapacity for work at the end of treatment, upon discharge from the hospital. Moreover, if the patient has fully recovered and can go to work, the sick leave is “closed”. If the doctor recommends continuing treatment at home, the certificate of incapacity for work indicates that the patient needs outpatient treatment with an extension of the sick leave. In this case, the patient extends the sick leave not in the hospital, but in the clinic.
It is important to understand that a premature exit to work can have undesirable consequences - a relapse of the disease, the development of complications (after a sore throat, the kidneys and heart often suffer), etc.
In the event of a premature exit to work and a relapse of the disease, a person is forced to reapply to the clinic. All this prolongs the treatment time, negatively affects the patient's health and increases the financial costs associated with the treatment. Thus, it is necessary to start the treatment of angina in a timely manner, opening without fail a sheet of temporary disability. If necessary, it is extended for as many days as the body needs to restore full performance.
