Indications for tonsil surgery

Under what circumstances do tonsils need surgery? Indications for tonsillectomy include the following: 1. Recurrent acute attacks of chronic tonsillitis.

2, Those with a history of peri-tonsillar abscess.

3.Children with excessive tonsillar hypertrophy, which hinders swallowing and breathing and leads to nutritional disorders or leads to obvious snoring and lack of oxygen.

4.Patients with rheumatic fever, arthritis, wind heart disease, etc., who suspect tonsils as the foci of disease.

5.Patients with chronic exudative otitis media due to tonsils, hypertrophy of the proliferators, which affects the function of the eustachian tube, and who have been ineffective by conservative treatment.

6.Unexplained long-term low-grade fever, and the presence of chronic inflammation of the tonsils.

7.IGA nephropathy, where tonsils are suspected to be the focal point.

8.Various benign tonsillar tumors, while cases of malignant tumors should be carefully selected.