The difficulty in Swallowing, and food is scarcely to think of A tonsillitis hurts like hell. In addition to the Palatine tonsils can become inflamed pharyngeal tonsils. This happens again and again, you can leave you in a surgery to remove.
This intervention, however, should be carefully considered. Especially in children, Doctors are no longer effective today as fast to the scalpel.
Tonsils removed – the pros and cons to weigh
“A removal of the tonsils is considered, if a patient is within a year no more than three Times a tonsillitis occurred,” says Christoph Reichel, a senior physician at the clinic and polyclinic for ear, nose and throat medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.
The almonds are first out, you can do no more problems. That sounds tempting, but without the risks of the surgery is not. “Therefore, Doctors will make the decision easy,” stresses Reichel. It always depends on the individual case. In the case of children, for example, is operated, as a rule, only in the case of more than seven of tonsillitis per year and the sixth year.
Engaging with risks
What makes the Operation so risky that are the possible complications. So it may come after the procedure bleeding. Instead of the whole almonds out of the operate can be removed, therefore, in some patients, parts. “The risk of bleeding is reduced in a part of the distance are extreme,” says Prof. Jochen Windfuhr, chief physician of the clinic for ear, nose, and throat medicine at the hospital Maria Hilf Mönchengladbach. In children and adolescents the tonsils are often very large. In these cases, an almond reduction out of the question.
An almond-OP but may have other disadvantages. Researchers reported in the journal “JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery”, the long-term risk for diseases of the respiratory tract may increase if the tonsils and adenoids are removed at an early age. Actually, the tonsils are designed to detect pathogens at an early stage and ward off. The researchers recommend, therefore, that the risks of a distance even more precise weighing.
Conversation with the doctor
No matter whether now is a Tonsillectomy for a child or for an adult is present: patients should talk with the doctor and decide together whether SURGERY is out of the question. “Before surgery, all blood thinners must be discontinued at the end of the medium, which occupies a Patient may, unless compelling medical reasons,” emphasizes Reichel.
After the procedure, patients need to physically. Sports and work are initially off-limits. The sores heal after two to three weeks. Fresh-Operated should take mainly soft and cool foods. On fruit, the first step should be omitted, as it contains fruit acid.
