Tonsillectomy at 28 months. Any experience?

[Beeloux]

Hi all,
Ds (27 months) is due a tonsillectomy next month (intracaspular). This is due to recurrent and tonsillitis (13 this year), enlarged tonsils and sleep apnoea,

Does anyone have any experience with a child so young having them done? Everyone I know who’s ds has had it done has been a few year older.

Any advice appreciated!

Hi @Beeloux, my daughter had both tonsils and adenoids out at exactly two years old, like the week after her second birthday. I was very worried, she was absolutely tiny, size of a 6 month old as well. Anyway it went well and she recovered super quick. The actual coming round from anaesthetic bit was the worst, she was SO cross. She kept throwing herself into my arms and then when I couldn’t make her feel better throwing herself to DH and repeat. She recovered though and doesn’t remember that. She was actually hangry as much as anything else and improved big time after from food (nil-by-mouth before the op). Happy to answer any questions.

Thanks so much for your reply! Glad that your DD recovered well from it 😊 Ds reacts similar whenever he has tonsillitis, non stop screaming and throwing himself onto the floor. So I’m hoping I can brace myself and be prepared for it!

Can I ask, did your dd have the full or partial (intrecaspular) tonsillectomy? Ds is having the partial one but I read the tonsils can grow back with it 😩 My elder son (almost 5) has just been referred for enlarged adenoids due to dribbling and snoring which ds2 also experiences. I was sort of hoping they would remove them at the same time but he’s only been referred for tonsillectomy.

Yes she had intracapsular for both - it was described to me as melting the tonsils away with a laser, leaving the skin at the very back intact, rather than cutting them out. I believe it’s the modern method and associated with far less risk of bleeding, though as you say a higher chance that they will grow back. I reasoned that if she needed to have them removed again (if they regrew) she would at least be older and more able to understand. 8 years on and they have not regrown though.

My DD was actually referred for adenoids (due to sleep apnoea) but I asked them to consider removing tonsils too and they said they would assess depending on the size of the tonsils when she went in (and they removed both).

Whereabouts are you? DD had hers removed in London St Thomas and they were fab.