The advantages of tonsillectomy in adults are removing the infected lesions, improving ventilation, and avoiding the complications it causes; the disadvantages are dry throat as well as foreign body sensation may occur after removal.
Chronic tonsillitis repeated acute episodes, tonsil abscess around the tonsils and other tonsil inflammation, resection to avoid inflammatory attacks; for tonsils are too large, caused by sleep at night breathlessness, snoring after the removal of breathlessness and ventilation improved; chronic tonsillitis sometimes become caused by other organs such as nephritis. Myocarditis and other chronic foci, removal can be relieved of the cause of the disease.
For adults, most patients after the tonsil removal will not have a particularly big impact, there may be some patients due to the trauma of the operation may still cause dry throat and swallowing foreign body sensation.
It is recommended to visit the hospital and be evaluated by a specialist to decide whether or not the tonsils need to be removed.