31-03-2014, 06:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 31-03-2014, 09:44 AM by Greg R Parker.)
Bringing this back to the right thread:
How Can I Tell if My Tonsils Have Grown Back?
If you were under the impression that you would never have another strep infection after having your tonsils removed, you might panic the first time you get a sore throat. While research shows a significant decrease in the number of infections experienced by people who have their tonsils out, you can still get throat infections after having them removed. Just because you get a throat infection does not mean that your tonsils have grown back.
If your tonsils are growing back, you might see bumps where your tonsils used to be, or they may become infected and swollen. This is generally not a concern unless they start causing problems. If you start having chronic throat infections or symptoms of sleep apnea, you should talk to your doctor about the possibility that your tonsils and/or adenoids have grown back and proceed from there.
Treatment
If you are one of the very few people whose tonsils grow back to a noticeable degree, you can expect your doctor to treat the regrowth in much the same way he or she treated you before your tonsillectomy. If you have a strep infection, you will be given antibiotics. Enlarged tonsils can sometimes be treated using steroids (more research on using steroids to shrink tonsils is needed but preliminary studies have been promising), and as a last resort, surgery. Your doctor probably won't recommend another tonsillectomy unless your tonsils have grown back because they are malignant (you have tonsil cancer), you are having frequent infections, your enlarged tonsils are causing you difficulty in swallowing or breathing, or your sleep apnea has returned.
http://ent.about.com/od/entdisorderssu/f...ectomy.htmSo there are a number of reasons why another tonsillectomy may be called for.
Quote:Jim Hargrove quoting from Harvey and Lee: they [tonsils] grow only to no more than 10% of their original size-not largeAgain - Armstrong is talking about modern-day situations where the entire tonsils are removed - but as shown next, even then they may still regrow and require remove. Rare? Yes. But not in the "old days" when only partial removals were done.
enough to require removal.
How Can I Tell if My Tonsils Have Grown Back?
If you were under the impression that you would never have another strep infection after having your tonsils removed, you might panic the first time you get a sore throat. While research shows a significant decrease in the number of infections experienced by people who have their tonsils out, you can still get throat infections after having them removed. Just because you get a throat infection does not mean that your tonsils have grown back.
If your tonsils are growing back, you might see bumps where your tonsils used to be, or they may become infected and swollen. This is generally not a concern unless they start causing problems. If you start having chronic throat infections or symptoms of sleep apnea, you should talk to your doctor about the possibility that your tonsils and/or adenoids have grown back and proceed from there.
Treatment
If you are one of the very few people whose tonsils grow back to a noticeable degree, you can expect your doctor to treat the regrowth in much the same way he or she treated you before your tonsillectomy. If you have a strep infection, you will be given antibiotics. Enlarged tonsils can sometimes be treated using steroids (more research on using steroids to shrink tonsils is needed but preliminary studies have been promising), and as a last resort, surgery. Your doctor probably won't recommend another tonsillectomy unless your tonsils have grown back because they are malignant (you have tonsil cancer), you are having frequent infections, your enlarged tonsils are causing you difficulty in swallowing or breathing, or your sleep apnea has returned.
http://ent.about.com/od/entdisorderssu/f...ectomy.htmSo there are a number of reasons why another tonsillectomy may be called for.