It is possible that the white membrane still grows twenty days after tonsillectomy is a normal condition, and the white membrane on the tonsil trauma usually comes off gradually in half a month to a month or so. If accompanied by swelling and pain, fever and other symptoms may not be normal, need to consider the local inflammation and infection or combined fungal infection and other possibilities.
To determine whether it is normal to have a white membrane twenty days after tonsillectomy, it depends on the specific situation. If the tonsil itself inflammation is heavy, the trauma is large, the traumatic white membrane is usually half a month to a month or so gradually fall off, and there is no other uncomfortable manifestations, it may be considered normal, close observation.
However, if the postoperative care is not appropriate, resulting in septic infection of the wound, induced inflammation, or secondary Candida albicans infection, there will also be tonsillectomy twenty days after the white membrane still grows, is an abnormal phenomenon.
It is recommended that patients who suffer from long white membranes twenty days after tonsillectomy go to the hospital for a follow-up examination to clarify the specific cause.