I find it completely unbelievable that they are still doing tonsillectomies!
It has been known to be without legitimate purpose for half a century. Ruthless murderers.
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It has been known to be without legitimate purpose for half a century […]
That truly is an uninformed opinion and should be ignored completely.
I find it completely unbelievable that they are still doing tonsillectomies!
It has been known to be without legitimate purpose for half a century. Ruthless murderers.
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Tonsilectoies are done often, I just had one and wish it had been done 50 years earlier. They are a great cure for childhood sleep apnea.
Without legitimate purpose? Were you being sarcastic? If not I can tell you that there exist very legitimate reasons to remove the tonsils. WHen my daughter was school-aged the pediatricians office was like a second home. She was always getting sick, strep, high fevers. Colds would turn into something worse. She missed a lot of school. She became depressed. They passed her along from the 8th grade in to high school but they should not have. Gave her a passing grade but They penalized her for missing so many days by not allowing her to participate in the actual graduation ceremony. Finally when she turned 18 I too her to see an ENT doctor. He scheduled a tonsillectomy and while talking to the nurse in pre-op about her history of illness and doctor’s never once offering this the nurse stated that during the previous 15 years the medical community was of the mindset that tonsils should stay in but that at that present point that mindset was quickly shifting. She had my grandson’s tonsils removed when he was 4 because we could see he was starting down the same road. It was a piece of cake for him, my daughter on the other hand suffered for days after hers. It is a very hard procedure to deal with as an adult. She had complications with pneumonia and dehydration. If a child is sick often and the throat is what’s harboring the germs (ENT said it was a “faulty” immune system in daughter’s tonsils)then it’s irresponsible for a doctor NOT to recommend this procedure to parents of YOUNG otherwise healthy children.
I really feel for this girl’s family. I’m curious what exactly went wrong.