Does removing tonsils affect lifespan? Is tonsil removal necessary?

Removing the tonsils will not affect the lifespan, but it will definitely affect a person's resistance, so people who have removed the tonsils must eat more nutritious food, and also increase exercise.

Although the tonsils are also an immune organ for people, most of the tonsils are removed because the tonsils are anti-inflammatory and suppurative.

Then the tonsils will definitely affect the life expectancy, because the tonsils are able to resist some bacteria, if there are no tonsils, the immunity will be reduced, then the life of the body will definitely be affected.

There is great controversy about tonsil removal, is it better to remove it or keep it?

Tonsillar removal can relieve poor breathing and dysphagia caused by excessive hypertrophy of tonsils, and can avoid myocarditis, nephritis and benign and malignant tumors of tonsils caused by anti-tonsil inflammation.

The main drawbacks are that the child's immunity decreases, and the pain, bleeding, dry throat and scarring of the tonsils cause a sense of urgency in the wound. Tonsillectomy can be performed under local anesthesia or under general anesthesia, during which the patient may feel pain during the procedure, but the pain can be tolerated after the use of epithetizing drugs and local infiltration anesthesia.

Patients with general anesthesia do not feel pain during the operation, and they will only feel pain after being awake after general anesthesia, and the pain is tolerable after symptomatic treatment with analgesics after surgery.

Before the age of 15, the tonsils are an important immune organ in the human body, which can help the human body resist the invasion of germs, and most people from the age of 18, the tonsils will also shrink and the immunity will gradually disappear, replaced by the human alarm system, that is, once the human body is infected by germs and bacteria, it will first become inflamed to warn the human body.

Whether or not the tonsils need to be removed should first be decided based on the symptoms of the tonsils.

If the tonsils become inflamed repeatedly, 4-5 times a year or more, this is a chronic tonsillitis. For chronic tonsillitis, surgical removal of the tonsils is generally recommended.

Because the symptoms of chronic tonsillitis are not only manifested in the tonsils, but also cause other complications in the body, such as chronic nephritis, arthritis, myocarditis, etc., in this case, the tonsils must be removed.

If the tonsils are not removed, these complications can occur. After the tonsils are removed, many children will have a more spacious voice, sleep and snoring at night, and the symptoms of holding their breath will gradually increase.

The disadvantages of tonsil removal are mainly tonsil postoperative bleeding, tonsil postoperative bleeding is still more dangerous, usually we must pay attention to the child not to talk excessively, must have a reasonable diet, light diet, do not eat too hard, too spicy food.

Increased risk.

People who had tonsillectomy as a child had a twice as high risk of asthma, colds, lung seizure inflammation and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a child than those who had not had it removed; People who had adenoidectomy as a child had more than twice the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and nearly twice as much as respiratory disease and conjunctivitis than those who had no resection; People with both tonsils and adenoids removed have a 4- to 5-fold higher risk of otitis media and sinusitis.

In severe cases, removal of tonsils and adenoids is necessary, and the World Bank "However, the results we have observed increase the risk of long-term disease, suggesting that removal should be delayed when possible, in order to allow the immune system to develop normally in childhood and reduce the risk of disease later in life."