In this form of laryngitis there are all the symptoms of acute laryngitis, but on a very much exaggerated scale.
Many cases of acutelaryngitis are so slight as to make themselves known only by hoarseness and the character of the cough, nevertheless in every instance the attack demands serious attention.
It is frequently associated with inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, such aslaryngitis and bronchitis or pleurisy.
In an acute attack of laryngitis there is an elevation of temperature, pain on pressure over the region of the larynx, violent paroxysms of coughing, difficult and noisy respiration.
The symptoms and treatment oflaryngitis will be found under its appropriate classification.
In pharyngitis and laryngitis when associated with exanthemata.
The causes operating upon the exterior of the tube primarily are suppurative laryngitis and tracheitis, tumefaction and softening of bronchial and tracheal lymphatic glands, and caries of the spine.
Laryngitis will be indicated by pain referred to the larynx.
In rare cases extension of the inflammation occurs to the epiglottis, even to the larynx, and the laryngitis may be so severe as to threaten life from the occurrence of oedema.
Jenner says that in typhoid fever laryngitisindependent of pharyngitis is extremely rare, but the German writers express a different opinion.
It did not occur in our cases, but both Begbie and Paterson report cases of it which required tracheotomy, and Wyss and Bock met with ulcerative laryngitis with perichondritis.
Troublesome laryngitis and chronic bronchitis may follow the attack.
In uncomplicated diphtheriticlaryngitis I expect no lymphadenitis.
The physical condition of these parts readily accounts for the frequent and harassing cough and attacks of spasmodic laryngitis which are such frequent complications of the invasion and eruptive stages of measles.
Severe catarrhal laryngitis is a rare and dangerous complication.
Some degree of laryngitis is an accompaniment of all cases of measles.
I have seen the truth of this statement verified in the complete and permanent disappearance of many cases of laryngitis through learning to produce the voice correctly.
It is this type of voice production rather than climatic conditions, that causes so much chronic laryngitis among singers.
In a majority of cases laryngitis and other vocal ills are the direct results of bad voice production and disappear as the singer learns to produce his upper tones without resistance.
Abscesses sometimes form back of the pharynx and give rise to symptoms resembling those of laryngitis or distemper.
Neither of these diseases affects the horse, but these names are sometimes wrongly applied to severe laryngitis or pharyngitis, or to forage poisoning, in which the throat is paralyzed and becomes excessively inflamed and gangrenous.
The latter is urgently called for, as lung complications, severe bronchitis, and laryngitis are often the results of neglect of this precaution.
This, however, does not occur in laryngitis alone, but only when the pharynx is involved in the inflammation.
The eruption may occur in the throat or in the air tubes to the lungs, developing an acute laryngitis or bronchitis.
Croup is an acute laryngitis of childhood, usually occurring between the ages of two and six years.
This serious form of laryngitis may follow colds, but more often is brought about by swallowing very hot or irritating liquids, or through exposure to fire or steam.
In tubercular laryngitiscomplicating pregnancy, Kuettner found the mortality to be 90 per cent.
Such laryngitis is usually fatal, whether pregnancy is present or not.
