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Strep Throat and Tonsils
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 401771" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>When I was a kid, before they had immuniations against all those things, I remember that people would purposely expose their pre-school age kids to children who had measles and chickenpox so they would get it before they started school!</p><p> </p><p>Having the tonsils out may not protect against getting strep but bad tonsils can seem to harbor it and make it come back over and over again. When my daughter was about four, she had tubes put in to her ears and her adenoids removed, which stopped her constant ear infections. I really wanted them to take out her tonsils at the same time but the doctor didn't want to do it then. She did OK for a while but then started getting strep - it was constanty going around in the schools. She got it over and over again ... every time we went through the doctors visits, testing, and rounds of antibiotics which I always made sure she finished. It would seem to clear up and then in a few weeks she had it right back again. Poor kid was sick all the time. They FINALLY agreed to take out her tonsils when she was 15 and it was quite an ordeal and ended up requiring an overnight hospital stay. So much rougher on her than if they had just taken them out when she was four!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 401771, member: 1883"] When I was a kid, before they had immuniations against all those things, I remember that people would purposely expose their pre-school age kids to children who had measles and chickenpox so they would get it before they started school! Having the tonsils out may not protect against getting strep but bad tonsils can seem to harbor it and make it come back over and over again. When my daughter was about four, she had tubes put in to her ears and her adenoids removed, which stopped her constant ear infections. I really wanted them to take out her tonsils at the same time but the doctor didn't want to do it then. She did OK for a while but then started getting strep - it was constanty going around in the schools. She got it over and over again ... every time we went through the doctors visits, testing, and rounds of antibiotics which I always made sure she finished. It would seem to clear up and then in a few weeks she had it right back again. Poor kid was sick all the time. They FINALLY agreed to take out her tonsils when she was 15 and it was quite an ordeal and ended up requiring an overnight hospital stay. So much rougher on her than if they had just taken them out when she was four! [/QUOTE]
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