Pros and cons of tonsillectomy in children

Many children often suffer from tonsillitis since childhood. Doctors will see that the tonsils are enlarged, which sometimes affects the child's breathing and causes snoring at night. At this time, parents will suggest whether they can be removed. The answer is to try not to remove it or avoid it. Tonsils are our body's immune organs and removal will reduce the body's immunity. This article introduces the relevant content, let’s take a look.

Introduction to tonsils and the pros and cons of tonsil removal

Tonsils are the human body's immune organs. The immunoglobulin IgA produced by tonsils has strong immunity, which can inhibit the adhesion of bacteria to the respiratory mucosa, inhibit the growth and spread of bacteria, and also have a neutralizing and inhibitory effect on viruses. Once removed, these bacteria will harm our health. Therefore, surgical removal of tonsillitis is not recommended. Moreover, today's medical technology has reached the point where tonsillitis can be cured without removing the tonsils. Advanced low-temperature plasma technology can perform minimally invasive low-temperature ablation on chronically inflamed, congested and swollen primary lesions, causing the inflamed, hyperplastic and other pathological tissues to shrink and heal on their own.

Tonsillitis generally refers to nonspecific inflammation of the palatine tonsils, which can be divided into acute tonsillitis and chronic tonsillitis. Acute tonsillitis is mostly caused by bacterial or viral infection when the body's resistance is reduced. It has an acute onset and is a common disease among children and adolescents. Chronic tonsillitis is caused by repeated attacks of acute tonsillitis, which can induce other diseases, such as chronic nephritis, arthritis, rheumatic heart disease, etc., so it must be treated actively.

Above we introduced the pros and cons of tonsillectomy. Everyone’s physical condition is different. The removal should be carried out according to one's own situation. Not everyone is suitable for removal surgery. We hope that the above introduction can help everyone, but please do not blindly follow the trend. I hope these can help everyone. Some people have different resistance, so their choices are also different.

3Is tonsillectomy good for children?

Is it good for children to remove tonsils? Doctors say that tonsils are the "health guardians" of the human body. During childhood, it is an active immune organ that contains lymphocytes at various stages of development, such as T cells, B cells, macrophages, etc. Therefore, it not only has humoral immunity, producing various immunoglobulins, but also has certain cellular immunity.

Is it good for children to remove tonsils? Doctors emphasize that from an immune point of view, tonsils should not be removed casually due to their immune effects on the body. Enlarged tonsils in children are a normal physiological phenomenon. If the enlargement does not affect breathing and swallowing and does not cause serious clinical manifestations, they should not be removed. Because resection may affect the local immune response and reduce the body's ability to fight infection. If tonsillitis recurs, hinders breathing and swallowing, and causes diseases such as rheumatism and nephritis, it should be removed in time. Generally, tonsillectomy in children should be performed after the age of four.