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 …
Kids’ tonsillectomies make more sense for sleep apnea than strep throat
Published January 18, 2017 | FoxNews.com Children who have their tonsils removed to treat chronic throat infections or breathing problems during sleep may get more short-term symptom relief than kids who don’t get tonsillectomies, two recent studies suggest. Over time, however, the benefits of surgery for chronic streptococcal throat infections appear to go away. Three years after tonsillectomies, children who had these procedures had roughly the same number of throat infections as kids who didn’t get their tonsils taken out, one of the studies in Pediatrics found. “Tonsillectomy, while very common and generally safe, is not completely without risk,” said …
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