Patient: Description of the disease (onset time, main symptoms, hospital, etc.): tonsil hypertrophy, snoring and breathlessness, in the local hospital treatment physician recommended surgery and take medication to see the effect, but recently appeared snoring and breathlessness symptoms of tonsils and enlarged, the patient is 12 years old, is conservative treatment or surgery? ENT expert: Hello, for the tonsils need surgery, generally have the following indications: tonsil inflammation recurrence, sleep snoring and breathlessness, too much hypertrophy affect breathing, swallowing, pronunciation, tonsil tumors and so on. The child is 12 years old, considering that adenoids (lymphatic tissue in the nasopharynx) are close to atrophy, but the possibility of still hypertrophy can not be completely excluded, it is best to take a lateral X-ray of rhinitis to rule out. For your child, snoring and breath-holding, if a certain degree of impact on the quality of sleep, for the child’s development may have a certain impact, I think that should be treated surgically.