Tonsillectomy

[JenniferG]

I was just wondering if anyone here has had a Tonsilectomy. My dd7 is going in on Tues and I was wondering what to expect the following. Thanks

[thereishope]

You can get multiple answers across the board here for this one. My son had t and a at 5 1/2 years old. He healed fine. Never complained. He even ate chicken nuggets that night after surgery. The ENT told us not to baby his throat and it would heal faster. However, I know others who had a harder time healing.

 

Are you getting abx pre, post and/or during surgery?

[JenniferG]

You can get multiple answers across the board here for this one. My son had t and a at 5 1/2 years old. He healed fine. Never complained. He even ate chicken nuggets that night after surgery. The ENT told us not to baby his throat and it would heal faster. However, I know others who had a harder time healing.

 

Are you getting abx pre, post and/or during surgery?

Is that recommended?

[thereishope]

It seems that different ENT's do different things. Many ENT's will treat PANDAS kids the same as non-PANDAS in terms of pre and post op procedures, but as you know our kids are just different wth different risks.I don't think there is a standard that all ENT's follow for abx and t and a. It varies. I've encountered some parents who didn't get any abx after surgery. Whereas, I think mine did abx 5 days before surgery, 3 days after.

 

Some PANDAS kids will have a worsening of symptoms after surgery. Some think that may be due to exposure during surgery. So, some will request IV antibiotics during the procedure and full strength abx for a week or so after.

 

Some PANDAS parents will also request that the tonsils are biopsied to see if strep has been hiding in them.

[ajcire]

Like Vickie, both my children ate chicken nuggets for dinner the day of the surgery. The ENT told us the same thing as vickie's. They had an easy recovery as far as pain went. Night time was the one time that was bad.. they would wake up in the middle of the night in pain from their throats being dry.

 

I know that for our ENT the intravenous antibiotics during were standard, not just for pandas patients. He had agreed to give me a week of an antibiotic pre-surgery for my pandas ds at my request. It is standard to have antibiotics after the surgery for several days.

 

My pandas ds reacted to the anesthesia.. he had no pain issues but he had terrible night terrors and just wasn't himself (not pandas symptoms, just had no appetite, was just out of it and seemed sad)