Patient's question:
Children often need to take antibiotics or receive intravenous fluids to recover. What kind of assistance matters: I'd like to ask a few questions. Everyone says that the tonsils are immune organs, but because he frequently gets inflamed, it leads to fever or high fever. Will it be better if they are removed? But what kind of interference does it cause to the body?Doctor's answer:
The indications for tonsillectomy include the following:(1) Recurrent acute exacerbations of chronic tonsillitis.
(2) History of peritonsillar abscess.
(3) Excessive tonsillar enlargement that obstructs swallowing, breathing, or causes malnutrition, or leads to significant snoring and choking in children.
(4) Patients with rheumatic fever, arthritis, rheumatic heart disease, etc., who suspect the tonsils as a focus of infection.
(5) Chronic otitis media with effusion caused by hypertrophy of the tonsils and adenoids, which interferes with eustachian tube function and fails to respond to rigorous treatment.
(6) Long-term low-grade fever of unknown cause, with chronic inflammation of the tonsils present.
(7) IgA nephropathy, where the tonsils are suspected as a focus of infection.
(8) Various benign tumors of the tonsils; malignant tumors should be approached with caution in case selection.