”We all have a pair of tonsils, and without discussing their function, it is important to stress that you should not just surgically remove your tonsils unless there is a greater impact on your health. When to remove tonsils? I. Indications for tonsillectomy in children and adolescents 1. Acute purulent tonsillitis with more than 10 episodes per year, which seriously affects life, can be removed bilaterally. However, after bilateral tonsillectomy, there will be cold and acute pharyngitis attacks. Because the attack is caused by cold or poor health, after removal of tonsils, children’s health or resistance to disease does not improve, and they will still have a cold, pharyngitis, or rhinitis after getting cold. Protecting children from heat and cold, and not getting cold, is the key to preventing tonsillitis, colds, pharyngitis, and rhinitis. 2, excessive hypertrophy of tonsils, preventing swallowing, breathing, or leading to obvious open-mouth breathing, snoring, with the possibility of oxygen deprivation, can affect the development of children. 3.Tonsils and proliferators are hypertrophied, affecting the function of the eustachian tube and causing chronic exudative otitis media, which can be removed if conservative treatment is ineffective. 4. There is nephritis (hematuria, proteinuria), the cause of which is unknown and may be related to tonsillitis. Second, adult tonsillectomy indications 1, acute purulent tonsillitis more than 10 times a year, seriously affect life, can remove the tonsils bilaterally. 2, one side of the tonsils is enlarged, no discomfort, the surface appearance is normal, the doctor suspects that there may be tumors (lymphoma) in the tonsils. (To exclude the possibility of parapharyngeal tumor) 3.Nephritis, arthritis, skin disease, wind heart disease, etc., suspected to be related to chronic tonsillitis. 4, various benign tonsil tumors. If the tonsils are not removed, only benign tumors are removed but not easily removed cleanly. 5.History of peri-tonsillar abscess. 6.If there is a tumor on the surface of the tonsils and it is suspected to be malignant, the surface tumor should be bitten for pathological examination and the tonsils should not be removed surgically.