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devonshiredumpling · 25/10/2013 22:40

my dd last saturday has had her tonsils and adenoids out .we have kept on top of her pain relief and cuddles and so on. now she has had her night terrors return she will sit up crying and has not had a good nights sleep since it all happened .question do you think a trip back to the docs is in order or just wait and see what happens(she is four)

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AgentZigzag · 25/10/2013 22:45

Awww, poor love.

I'm not wise but I've got a 4 YO and would say to put a definite time scale on when you'd expect it to be tailing off (like another couple of weeks? or another week if you think that's cruel, although I don't think people actually remember their night terrors do they?).

Just keep reassuring her, maybe talk about what happened in the day? Because if it's her minds way of thinking things through then sorting it while she's awake might work through some of them?

Is it quite young to be having them both out? I was 8 when I had my adenoids out so I knew what was going on, but it must be really confusing and painful for a tiny one.

devonshiredumpling · 25/10/2013 22:51

the reason she had them both out is that she would literally stop breathing at night because her tonsils would shut close and not allow air down and if she had a cold she could not get rid of any mucous so she would end up being sick(i had mine out first time round when i was her age)

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LOLisNOTaPunctuationMark · 25/10/2013 22:54

My daughter had hers out in April. Had a horrendous time post-op. She developed an infection (keep your nose alert for horrid breath, like rotting skin. I thought that the smell was a normal part of the wounds healing, but it was actually a bad infection). She got medicine for that. Four days after her op, she spat out some blood when i was brishing her teeth. I called the ENt ward and they advised to bring her in. They couldn't see any bleeding on the tonsil beds at all, and there was no further bleeding, but kept her in overnight as a precaution.

Then three days later, a week after the op and seemingly feeling much better, blood gushed out of dd's mouth after dinner. Totally out of the blue. She'd been full of energy and smiles all day before that. I called ENT. They advised me to hang up and call 999 instead, which i did. I put her over the bath until the paramedics came. And loads of blood just kept coming out all the way to the hospital. We had to wait on her surgeon getting called in from his home. He said that she had hemorrhaged, which is very rare. She went for another op that night. Afterwards, the surgeon told us that another vessel looked ready to burst during surgery. rather than leave it, and therefore needing another operation to heal it when it finally burst withing the next day or so, they just burst it fully while she was already in surgery.

Anyway, after that, all was fine.

Complications following tonsillectomies in children are rare. But they do happen. If you have any concerns at all, i can't stress enough to see the GP as quickly as you can, or to call the ENT ward for advice where your daughter had her op.

So sorry if this all sounds a bit scaremongering. But i hope it's helpful? The whole thing really shook me up.

frogspoon · 25/10/2013 22:56

If she has only recently had them out (less than a week ago) then the physical trauma from the op may have caused swelling, making it still difficult to breathe.

Hopefully it will settle down in a week, but if she is getting very distressed maybe take her back to the doctor

wigglesrock · 26/10/2013 07:39

My dd had her tonsils out this week. The discharge nurse told us all it would get worse before it got better. I know anecdotally that between 7-10 days after the op, they can almost go backwards.

I know that my dd was more frightened of the whole procedure/ hospital etc than she let on.

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