4. Eating Soft Non-Acidic Foods
You also want to stick to soft, nonacidic foods. With tonsillitis, you generally have read in inflamed tonsils with that painful redness spreading to other parts of the throat and esophagus. This often means that swallowing hard foods is going to be almost impossible. In fact, there is a real choking hazard if you tried to eat hard foods when your esophagus is inflamed.
You also want to go with nonacidic foods. Nonacidic foods are foods that are not more base than acid. Some of the most common examples of acidic foods out there include oranges and lemons. There are times that you can use acidic foods in the treatment of tonsillitis, as we will explain in the next section, but the main thing is to avoid using these acidic foods raw because the acid can irritate the esophagus and the inflamed areas that are being affected by tonsillitis.