...to think this is gross? *throat picture included*

[ohisay]

This is my 7 year old's throat. What's going on? Someone said maybe a tonsil stone? What do they do for those, does anyone know? She's had some ear ache and trouble swallowing but has had tonsillitis repeatedly since two years of age, so swallowing always a bit of an issue anyway.
If it was my throat if be poking it, but being as she's 7 I've stayed away
She's booked into GP tomorrow but not sure what to expect?
Any wisdom would be greatly received

Doctors eh?
What do they know.

OMG that was good sporn. I want a tonsil stone :/(

OP, did you get a referral for your Dd yet?
My Dd had hers out as they were truly massive and obstructed her sleep with apnoea and tremendous snoring. She is so peaceful now it is well worth doing. I attach a pic of her before ~ with normal sized tonsils (for her) and no tonsillitis and after. She didn't suffer recurrent tonsillitis but apparently she had a 'massive infection' when they took them out. You'd never have known as she wasn't unwell, but I wonder now if she had constant tonsillitis as they were always that big! I feel very bad about that now.

She goes back to school tomorrow :)

Hi solo, got your pm, glad you sent it as for some reason this thread doesn't show in my history so i had to search for it!
We are one week post tonsillectomy she's completely back to normal now, one more week off school as per hospital instructions.
She bled a lot during removal but other than that, no problems so far.
So glad you got things sorted for your DD too! mine is now a silent sleeper, that's taking a lot of getting used to!
We're going to spend some time trying new foods. When we got discharged from hospital they went through a list of foods that are good to eat, and it dawned on me that, even though her diet is quite varied, it is all soft foods!

((((((((((Hugs))))))))))) both of you, Glad it's now sorted

Ohisay I'm pleased to hear that you got it sorted! Yes the silent sleeping is very difficult to get used to after probably 8 years (she's nearly 10) sounding like a grizzly bear!, but my goodness it's good! Dd went back to school this morning :) She took a bit longer than a week to get back to normal, about 10 days I'd say, but she would not eat anything that threatened to scratch her throat, so I think it probably delayed the healing process and she had a 10 day course of penicillin for the infection, so was getting away with a lot! Did your Dd get bits of food stuck on her tonsils when she swallowed? If so, then I understand the reasoning behind soft foods; my Dd didn't just eat soft stuff for a normal day to day diet, but was always trying to clear the bits stuck on a tonsil ~ sounded gross!

So! No tonsillitis for Christmas! So Happy Christmas to you and yours!

TheMaddHugger :) Thank you!

Thanks madhugger
Solo, with eating she was kind of double swallowing everything as it wasn't really going down!
She says it's really strange to have nothing touching the back of her tongue all the time!
She's still getting used to the change in swallowing, when she forgets, water (tea and hot chocolate ) comes from her nose. My son would think it was great but daughter, not so much !! It will definitely be a good Christmas without the nagging worry of infection.
How did school go? Mine is desperate to go back, but Drs orders say no. She's had a busy-ish day with school work and collecting her brother from school and is much more tired than it would usually make her but she will not admit it!

Aw! Cool party trick for boys but not girls! Did she have her adenoids out too like my Dd?

My Dd put some chocolate raisins into her mouth at day 10 (the first day she felt better) and 2 rolled straight down her throat! She was followed by raucous laughter ; she had always had a huge set of goal post's to stop anything flying straight down before!
Yes, she quite happily went back today, but she would also have happily stayed home too (not a school fan). She did tell me that she had some blood today, but she's not said anything since so I'm not paying much attention to it as it's now more than 2 weeks and as you know, it's the 2 week mark that the worry of bleeding lessens ~ and the reason for the return to school at this point .

Glad your kids have throat space now! Mine were removed at around 30 after years or vile tonsil stones. I'm sure I must have swallowed some but the post above saying she'd swallowed the 'pus' really made me retch. Those things are concentrated nuggets of halitosis.
I'd iften dislodge one with a sneeze. Mortifying if no tissue. And it lands on your hand.

I had tonsillectomy at about age 22 for much the same reasons. Massive scarred tonsils, chronic infection, stones etc. That was over ten years ago now and when I'm tired stuff still comes down my nose. Also can't do things like blow balloons up.

Apparently it's called veloharyngeal insufficiency and can be helped by speech therapy so do keep an eye on it. I had to give up playing the sax because of air coming down my nose wh it shouldn't (I hold my nose to blow up balloons).

Glad all is well otherwise!

Thank you :) Dd will never have a tonsil stone now. She is very well and sleeping silently!