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Should I get my tonsils out?
How do you know when you need your tonsils out cause mine are super sollwen they have little white patches my friends say I need to get them out what do you think?
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I'm no doctor, but I get strep throat about 5 times a year, and that sounds like my symptoms exactly.
You need to hit up your doctor's office. They'll do a swab to see if you have a bacterial infection (like strep). If you do, they'll prescribe antibiotics. In Ontario, where I live, doctors usually won't suggest tonsil removal until you have more than 8 bouts of tonsillitis (sore throat) every year. If you live in a country with a for-profit health care system, it may be suggested to you sooner.
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that just means you have a sour throat and i had my tonsils removed my doctor told me i had to remove them because they were too big and i always had a soar throat so i think you should go to the doctor
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This is a question for your doctor not any of us; we are not doctors.
Back in the dark days tonsils were routinely removed if you had severe bouts of tonsillitis. Today doctors are not as fast to remove tonsils. It may be that we have better antibiotics today or that doctors have found that the tonsils serve a purpose more than they knew back then.
For what ever reason the only person that can tell you for sure is either your family doctor or an ENT Specialist.
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