About tonsillectomy

[croatianmum]

My son was soposed to get IVIG; but, after meeting our PANDAS doc., and because his ASO is rising (was 260; now on 500); he want us to remove his tonsils first. So we hope to remove the problem with strep.

he also said that he will feel worse after tonsilectomy.

 

The question is -have You seen some long term betterment after removing T&A?

 

Any one had some obvious positive results from tonsilectomy ?

 

 

[beeskneesmommy]

Make sure to have him on a "sterilizing" run of antibiotics before, during and after the T&A. Sometimes the Strep breaks free at the surgical site and colonizes in the body (like in my son's case). We did not have antibiotics for the T&A which was a big mistake! If you have lots of heavy antibiotics on board it will guard against this. Yes, longer term, my son is better without tonsils. I would hughly recommend going forward, making sure that you have the antibiotics as precaution. If your kiddo is solely Strep throat, removing the tonsils should help!

[airial95]

We got back to 100% for the first time in 2+ yes with tonsillectomy. It was immediate and wonderful - like beeskneesmommy said, abx prior, during and post-op.

 

Unfortunately, it wasn't a permanent fix for us, our son got strep 6 wks post op and we were back to square 1.

 

But I would do it all over again.

[blakes_mom]

Ds 11 had T & A 1 year ago. We saw immediate resolution of tics 2 days after surgery. We did antibiotics before during and after surgery. He is still on antibiotics for strep prevention and doing incredibly well. He has had a few episodes of tics with ear infections but this was definately a huge help for us.

[croatianmum]

we are also on a high dose of augemntin, but his ASO is rising anyway,so, we hope the tonsilecotmy will be some relief because he has got a lot of terrible tics.