Tonsils are a pair of organs located in the numbered throat cavity in the left and right rear oral cavity. This organ has a duty to ward off germs that enter the mouth. Apart from the tonsils, the throat cavity there's more body fortress called adenoid, located in the ceiling above the cavity of the throat near the channel to a nose that has similar functions as an antidote tonsils incoming germs from the air into the airway.
Normal tonsil attack on childhood. At the age of childhood immune system is still weak.
At the time of endurance in good condition until the bacteria do not make the child sick, but when the body resistance can be decreased malignant germs and cause infections.
In normal circumstances the mouth and throat, there are lots of germs.
When exposed to infection, the tonsils become inflamed (swollen and red color) is accompanied by fever and pain in the throat, especially when swallowing food. Tonsillitis can be caused by viruses and bacteria. If the cause of the tonsils by the virus requires the patient enough pain medication, fever and infection treatment home and will heal by itself after the improved endurance. But when infections caused by bacteria so patients need antibiotics.
Seoarang child should do surgery on the tonsils if:
1. Middle ear infections are recurrent, life cavity infection or chronic inflammation of the throat, accompanied by chronic bad breath.
2. Tonsils had been turned into a source of disease rather than as an antidote to the disease.
Tonsils are said to be the source of the disease if it has become a den of germs that cause recurrent infections. In a healthy condition, tonsils serve as an antiseptic, but if too often exposed to infection, can become a den of germs. At that time there was no other choice tonsils must be removed. If the condition is left alone the infection can spread to other organs like the heart and kidneys.
3. Besides surgery necessary if the tonsils to swell too big to clog the airways that would cause the patient to have difficulty breathing and it is feared happened obstructive sleep apnea (stopping breathing during sleep).