Thousands of children are having their tonsils removed unnecessarily, costing the NHS millions of pounds each year, according to experts. They found seven in every eight children given ...

The main one is a sore throat, however tonsillitis is different to just a sore throat because there are usually other accompanying symptoms, such as red and swollen tonsils, high temperature, coughing ...

Children who had tonsils removed had better sleep and overall ... But they themselves can become infected, leading to swelling, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, fever, enlarged lymph nodes ...

Though people of all ages can develop tonsillitis, it is most often experienced by children. A possible explanation for why there are less incidences of tonsillitis in adults is that the function of ...

In this study, we show that proliferative rates are increased in tonsil mixed cell cultures harvested from children with OSA during routine T&A compared with children with RI, and this process ...

A tonsillectomy may be suggested as treatment for a child who has what ... and symptoms such as enlarged tonsils, redness or white patches on your throat, or swollen lymph nodes.