Should They Be Removed

Dr. Jack Paradise, of the University Flat Belly Overnight Review of Pittsburgh, reports that surgically removing tonsils and adenoids has little, if any, effect in preventing recurrences of ear infections. Doctors still remove more than 400,000 tonsils each year. Tonsils and adenoids are lymphatic tissue. Tonsils should never be removed before age four, because prior to age four they are a major supplier of the cells and proteins that help to protect you from being infected with viruses and bacteria. However after that, the tonsils and adenoids are less important in protecting you from infections and removing them does not appear to cause harm. Dr. Paradise followed 461 children who had recurrent ear infections. Those who had had their tonsils and adenoids removed were just as likely to suffer recurrences.

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An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommends preventing recurrent ear infections with environmental control from filth, mold and dust mites, episodic antibiotics, childhood immunizations, ear tubes and "selected removal of adenoids" when all else fails. Fluid produced in the middle ear flows down the eustachian tube into the mouth, where the child swallows it without even knowing about it. Children have such small eustachian tubes that they are blocked, causing fluid to accumulate in their ears. Taking the antibiotic, erythromycin, may help clear fluid from a child's ear just by stimulating the cilia to sweep out the accumulated fluid.