Tonsils and Adenoids: Should They Be Removed?
Dr. Jack Paradise, of the University of Pittsburgh, reports that surgically removing tonsils and adenoids has little, if any, effect in preventing recurrences of ear infections. Doctors still remove more than 400,000 tonsils each year.
Tonsils and adenoids are lymphatic tissue. Tonsils should never be removed before age four, because prior to age four they are [...]
