Please turn on JavaScript and try again. Important Phone Numbers. Topic Contents Your Recovery How can you care for yourself at home? When should you call for help? Where can you learn more? Top of the page. Your Recovery A tonsillectomy is surgery to remove the tonsils. How can you care for yourself at home? Rest when you feel tired.
Getting enough sleep will help you recover. Try to walk each day. Start by walking a little more than you did the day before. Bit by bit, increase the amount you walk. Walking boosts blood flow and helps prevent pneumonia and constipation.
Avoid strenuous activities, such as bicycle riding, jogging, weight lifting, or aerobic exercise, for 2 weeks or until your doctor says it is okay. For 2 weeks, avoid lifting anything that would make you strain. This may include a child, heavy grocery bags and milk containers, a heavy briefcase or backpack, cat litter or dog food bags, or a vacuum cleaner. Avoid dirt, dust, and heat for 2 weeks after surgery.
These things can irritate your throat. For about 1 week, try to avoid crowds or people who you know have a cold or influenza flu. This can help prevent you from getting an infection. You may bathe as usual. Ask your doctor when you can drive again. You will probably need to take 1 to 2 weeks off from work.
It depends on the type of work you do and how you feel. Drink plenty of fluids to avoid becoming dehydrated. If it is painful to swallow, start out with flavoured ice pops, ice cream, or cold or room-temperature drinks. Do not eat or drink red food items, such as red juice or red gelatin. The colour may make you think you are bleeding. Avoid hot drinks, soda pop, orange or tomato juice, and other acidic foods that can sting the throat.
These may make throat pain worse and cause bleeding. For 2 weeks, choose soft foods like pudding, yogurt, canned or cooked fruit, scrambled eggs, and mashed potatoes. Avoid eating hard or scratchy foods like chips or raw vegetables. You may notice that your bowel movements are not regular right after your surgery.
This is common. Try to avoid constipation and straining with bowel movements. Share on: Facebook Twitter. Show references Lalwani AK. Management of adenotonsillar disease. McGraw Hill; Accessed Oct. Mitchell RB, et al. Clinical practice guideline: Tonsillectomy in children Update.
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While asleep While your child is asleep, his or her heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and blood oxygen level will be checked continuously. To keep your child asleep during the surgery, he or she might be given anesthetic medication by mask, through the IV, or both. The surgery itself will take about 30 minutes to 1 hour. Waking up When the surgery is over, the medications will be stopped and your child will be moved to the recovery room.
You will be called to the bedside so that you can be there as your child wakes up. It is OK to hold your child in your arms or on your lap. Your child will need to stay in the recovery room to be watched until he or she is alert and his or her vital signs are stable. The length of time your child will spend in the recovery room may be different from other patients because some children take longer than others to wake up after anesthesia.
Children coming out of anesthesia have a variety of reactions. Your child might cry, be fussy or confused, feel sick to his or her stomach, or vomit. These reactions are normal and will go away as the anesthesia wears off. Your child will have no memory of the surgery. In the recovery room, he or she will be encouraged to drink or to eat an ice pop. If your child snores loudly or has difficulty breathing after the surgery, he or she will need to be monitored more closely and may need to be admitted to the hospital.
Going home Most children will go home on the same day as surgery, but very young children under 3 years and children with bad sleep apnea will stay in the hospital overnight. Fluids are important and are the best thing to start with after surgery. The pain sometimes makes a child unwilling to eat, so it might help to give your child pain medication a half-hour before asking him or her to eat. A nurse will call you 24 hours after the surgery to check how your child is doing. Care at Home In the 14 days after the surgery, your child may get a cold or other infection more easily than usual.
Friends and family who are or might be sick should stay away. These changes are normal, but if your child continues to "baby" his or her voice for several weeks after surgery, talk to the pediatrician or ENT doctor.
Your child may return to school after 7 days. Your child should not participate in sports or strenuous activity for at least 2 to 3 weeks after surgery. All of these symptoms are normal: Within the first 24 hours, your child might feel sick to his or her stomach and might vomit.
The vomit might be slightly blood-tinged. For the first few days, your child will complain of a sore throat, and his or her spit might be slightly blood-tinged. Your child might have an earache or jaw pain. Your child might have a mild fever. He or she might complain of pain. You may give pain relievers as recommended by your surgeon. Children's North. Sewickley , PA
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