It is the procedure to have your tonsils removed which are found in the back of your throat. This is usually done today due to the tonsils being infected or otherwise damaged. It does not cause any real permanent damage and usually you recover in a few days.
Tonsillitis is an inflammation and infection of the tonsils. The tonsils become inflamed and swollen. They can begin to affect swallowing if they become very swollen. Plus, children often experience pain. However, Tonsillitis does NOT automatically mean surgery. It depends. Surgery is usually done if antibiotics don't help, if the child gets repeated Tonsillitis, or the tonsils remain chronically swollen. The surgery is fairly quick with very few complications.
Only real way is to get surgery and cut out your tonsils before infections spread.
No, strangle and tonsillitis are not the same thing.
His tonsillitis and the enlarged tonsils it causes may have disappeared. His tonsils may now have shrunk to their normal smaller size.
Example sentence - I was sick with tonsillitis three times last winter.
Tonsillitis is caused by bacteria that infect the tonsils. Since there are so many different types of bacteria that can cause tonsillitis, there is no way to know how it originated.
there is an irwin moore sign/squeeze test for chronic tonsillitis (one of the criterias to confirm chronic tonsillitis)
the icd-9 code for chronic tonsillitis is 474.00
The correct spelling is "tonsils" (lymphoid tissue in the throat).
No, you can not give tonsillitis to another individual, especially, if you do not have tonsillitis. This is an inflammatory infection within a person's body. This is not a contagious infection.
Tonsillitis may make your voice a little more quiet and muffled.
Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils most commonly caused by viral or bacterial infection.