Very strange advice, considering that the experts from the Great Ormond Street Children Hospital say: ''In many children, the tonsils become repeatedly infected with bacteria and viruses, which make them swell and become painful. Removing your child's tonsils and adenoids will solve these problems.'' https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/procedures-and-treatments/your-child-having-his-or-her-tonsils-andor-adenoids-removed/ Again it's all very strange how NHS just updated their website to tell the public how ''It's very rare that someone needs to have their tonsils taken out.''- I am sure these words didn't exist there before March 2024, I am almost sure they updated this page to now tell the parents this is now rare https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tonsillitis/
Mayo Clinic: ''a tonsillectomy is usually performed for sleep-disordered breathing but may still be a treatment when tonsillitis occurs frequently or doesn't respond to other treatments.'' repeated infections (tonsillitis) are not normal in America, so why would they be normal in the UK? https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/tonsillectomy/about/pac-20395141
Great Ormond Str Hosp: ''Tonsillectomy is a clinically effective and cost-effective procedure when performed for appropriate indications.'' So why would a GP say the opposite? And why did NHS update their page to change a common procedure into a rare one during a health care crisis? How very strange....
Plus, NIH: ''Children's tonsils are major sites of prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection'', so if no tonsillectomies anymore, the least they can do is to protect British children with covid vaccines against covid infections, knowing very well how it affects the tonsils,following the standard medical advice in any other civilized country who wouldn't happily expose all children to repeated infections with a novel virus for which uk has no treatments, not even tests and no prevention, despite the vaccines being used everywhere else. UK considers it's not 'cost-effective' to protect its children. Now I assume it's not cost-effective to treat them either. So all that's left is to normalize disease https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37737615/
If NHS 'reassures' us that tonsillectomies are rare, how about repeated tonsillitis- is this rare? It would be reassuring if they told us the incidence of repeated tonsillitis is rare, not that the treatment is rare. The fact that they say 'tonsillectomies are rare' means nothing to a parent of a sick child. If you want to reassure a parent, a real doctor would use the reduction in episodes of sickness, not the reduction in treatments- this is how medicine actually works, by reducing disease, not treatments!