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Although it is a fairly simple disease, if not treated in time, tonsillitis can completely cause dangerous complications for the patient. As a result, many cases of severe tonsillitis lead to tonsillectomy.
1. The tonsils are an organ of the immune system
The tonsils are one of the organs of the body's immune system, this is a structure similar to meat but in fact the lymph nodes are located on 2 sides at the back of the throat and work to block the invasion of bacteria. bacteria.
The tonsils are active from the age of 4 to 10 years old, then when they reach puberty, the level of immunity of the tonsils will gradually decrease. The origin of tonsillitis is usually a bacterial or viral infection that overloads the tonsils, causing them to swell and become inflamed.
2. Does resistance decrease after tonsillectomy?
The human body is protected by an immune system consisting of many different organs, so the body's resistance is usually very little affected after tonsillectomy.
3. In what cases is tonsillectomy indicated?
Many exacerbations of tonsillitis, from 5 to 6 times within a year. Tonsillitis causes complications such as otitis media, sinusitis or serious complications such as rheumatic heart disease, arthritis, glomerulonephritis. The tonsils are too large in size, which interferes with eating and drinking, loud snoring, sleep apnea, or repeated infections, affecting the patient's quality of life... Tonsillion is also indicated to be cut when there is many nooks and crannies contain many secretions causing persistent bad breath, difficulty swallowing or suspicion of malignancy.
4. How will health be affected if inflamed tonsils are not removed?
When the tonsils swell and are too large, they will block the airways, affecting breathing. In this case, the child will have signs of increasing snoring, difficulty breathing, and possibly having a very dangerous sleep apnea. Prolonged lack of oxygen will affect many different organs such as nerves, heart, lungs, craniofacial abnormalities...
Frequent infections of the tonsils will make health worse and lead to many complications such as: peritonsillar abscess, cellulitis, parapharyngeal abscess, retropharyngeal infection, arthritis, glomerulonephritis, myocarditis ...
5. Not every tonsillitis has to be cut
Many parents see that their child has tonsillitis and go to the doctor to cut it to avoid inflammation. This notion is completely wrong. In fact, the indications for tonsillectomy in young children are often very limited. Most children have mild tonsillitis and do not need to be removed. When having tonsillitis, parents need to take their children to the hospital for proper treatment by specialists or appoint tonsillectomy if really necessary.
6. Does tonsillectomy have any effect?
Tonsillectomy can cause fatal complications due to many causes: anesthesia, improper cutting technique (cutting blood vessels causing bleeding, not being able to stop), patients with coagulation disorders.
Therefore, before cutting, patients need to perform very careful tests on liver, kidney and blood coagulation functions to avoid unfortunate complications. If resection is indicated, surgery should be performed at hospitals with ear, nose and throat specialties, not in private clinics.
After tonsillectomy, it is necessary to strictly follow the diet and oral hygiene. After 7 to 10 days after tonsillectomy, if there is bleeding, you need to go to the hospital for a doctor to check and treat promptly.
7. Will there be recurrence after tonsillectomy?
Once the tonsils have been completely removed, there will be no recurrence of tonsillitis. However, it is still possible to get sore throat, rhinitis, ... with similar symptoms.
In rare cases, tonsils have been removed but may not have been completely removed, so the remaining tonsils may have recurrent inflammation. If the inflammation is much, the patient should see an ENT doctor to have it cut. If the inflammation is just a chronic inflammatory lesion in the tissues around the tonsils, then there is no need for surgery, but only antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs should be taken during acute exacerbations.
Besides, to prevent recurrent tonsillitis, patients need to pay attention to keep good health, improve physical condition, increase body's resistance by exercising, doing sports, keeping hygiene mouth, nose, throat by brushing teeth after eating, gargling with warm salt water, avoid using too much ice and suddenly entering and leaving a cold room, especially when the ambient temperature is high, you should use a mask to avoid dust when working in places with high pollution levels.
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