How do you know if you have to get your tonsils removed?!


Question: How do you know if you have to get your tonsils removed.?
and is it at a specific age.?

and plz dont just say if they hurt

im 17 does this usually occur when ur younger.?

thanks!Health Question & Answer


Answers:
no specific age.

if you have several strep throats a year, if your tonsils affect your ability to talk, drink, eat, swallow because they stay swollen, or if you often get white pockets of infection on the tonsils, then your ENT (ear nose and throat doctor) will probably want to take them out. They will leave the decision up to your parents (until you are 18).

Tonsils are there to protect you, they are like a signaling system for the body. They are the first things to 'realize' you have an infection entering the body and the let the rest of the body know what to attack (since most germs enter through your mouth). Sometimes, they kind of stop functioning right and instead just hold infection there, making you stay sick, time and time again..this is when you know they need to come out.

They take them out anywhere from a child to a senior citizen.Health Question & Answer

Your tonsils are a kind of "filter" that help to protect and fight infection specifically in the pharynx and upper respiratory tract . Only a specialist can tell if they need to be remove, but that's the last resort. If you see one specialist and he wants to remove them, get a second opinion, maybe even a third, there's many points to take in consideration regarding this matter. I still have mine and I'm 37 :-DHealth Question & Answer

Tonsils act has little trash containers, so many of the doctor's don't recommend to get rid of the tonsils unless it is so debilitating that you can not live your life the fullest without them there. They are so good in protecting your from various ailments that many doctors don't even want to remove them.Health Question & Answer

It is when they are infected and treatment isn't working. And they hurt.

Why ask the question if you don't want the answer.?Health Question & Answer

If your doctor say's they have to be taken out. Can happen at any age. I was eight.Health Question & Answer

Your doctor will tell you, end of story.Health Question & Answer



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