Should children get their tonsils taken out?
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | Updated 9:53 AM ET, Tue January 17, 2017 | CNN.com (CNN) If you’re questioning whether tonsillectomy — a surgical procedure to remove the tonsils — can really improve sleep and throat health in children, new research suggests to cut it out. Tonsillectomies help breathing during sleep and might reduce throat infections in the short term, according to two separate papers from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics. More research is needed to determine longer-term effects, researchers said. “While these results are not surprising, they offer a more nuanced look at …
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