If you intend to bring the child to hospital for tonsillectomy, so be prepared to deal with side effects. Some children experience weight gain after surgical removal of tonsils or often called tonsils. Surgical removal of tonsils is generally done to cope with chronic tonsillitis tonsillitis alias. Inflammation in this part usually makes the child experience symptoms such as difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) and pain on swallowing (odynophagia).
These symptoms are, of course, affect diet, so to some extent will affect growth, especially height and weight. If allowed, children will increasingly thin and long to be malnourished.
After the tonsils or inflamed tonsils were removed through an operation called a tonsillectomy, children no longer have difficulty or pain when swallowing food. Therefore, going back to normal eating patterns and weight will increase.
Weight gain experienced by children after tonsillectomy is significant. A study which examines three studies of tonsillectomy prove that the increase in body weight and body mass index (BMI) after surgery to reach 46-100 percent.
In the first study carried out 127 children with tonsillitis, removal of tonsils or tonsils make child BMI increased between 5.5 to 8.2 percent. In America, this figure is alarming considering the fact 33 percent of children in this country are overweight (overweight) and 17 percent obese.
"Although not revealed a direct relationship, weight gain after tonsillectomy fear it would trigger a dramatic increase in children who suffer from obesity-related," said Anita Jeyakumar, MD, who led the study, quoted by WebMD, Wednesday (02/02/2011) .
The next study examined 419 children, with weight gain after surgery varies considerably between 46-100 percent. Subsequent research revealed 249 children who have tonsil removal weight increased 50-75 percent.
The study, done by a team of experts from Saint Louis University study published in the journal Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery February edition.
source: http://health.detik.com/
