Simple nasal spray shown to significantly reduce snoring and breathing difficulties in children (Saline spray equal to steroids and reduced tonsillectomies by 50%)

Medical Xpress / Murdoch Children's Research Institute / JAMA Pediatrics ^ | Jan. 17, 2023 | Alice Baker et al

[Tunehead54]

Roger that. Thanks.

[MD Expat in PA]

I grew up getting a lot of colds and sore throats. Sometimes my tonsils were so swollen I could barely swallow, felt like I had golf balls in my throat. My tonsils got full of holes with a white/yellow substance, that sometimes I would cough up and it smelled awful. But our GP told my parents I didn’t need my tonsils out. it just wasn’t done so much anymore and would give me anti-biotics and codeine for the pain.

A few days after graduating HS, I got really, really sick and my parents took me to an ENT. He was shocked, saying he was concerned I might go septic; the infection was that bad.

I was admitted to the hospital the next day and had a tonsillectomy. Best thing as I stopped getting sick all the time and wished they had been taken out years earlier.

[dfwgator]

So did you get to eat ice cream afterwards?

[MD Expat in PA]

No ice cream. That causes phlegm that can make you cough. Fruit flavored popsicles and ginger ale

[Mean Daddy]

Our son’s ENT wasn’t a big proponent of removal but he said he has a handful of patients that could benefit and our son was one of them. He was concerned with all the medications, tubes etc. that he recommended it.

[M_Continuum]

Glad my folks didn’t know that when I had my tonsils out. I had all the ice cream a kid could want (and popsicles).