Does surgery for enlarged adenoids hurt?

Generally adenoid hypertrophy surgery is performed under general anesthesia and is painless during the process, but you may experience mild pain after the surgery.
Adenoidectomy needs to be performed under general anesthesia, so the patient will not feel any pain during the procedure. However, after the surgery, with the gradual disappearance of anesthesia effect, different degrees of pain will appear in the surgical area, mainly because each patient has different sensitivity to pain. Generally, mild pain does not need to be treated, and can be relieved on its own after a short period of time.
However, if patients experience unbearable pain after surgery, they can use painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen under the doctor’s guidance if necessary. In addition, 2 hours after the operation, fasting, 2 hours after the moderate amount of water, 4 hours after the semi-liquid food can be eaten, at this time also need to keep the mouth, wound clean, pay more attention to rest.
All in all, after adenoid hypertrophy surgery, you need to strengthen the daily life management, and inform the doctor in time if there is obvious discomfort.