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Need Post-Surgery Tonsillectomy Remedies for GrandsonPosted By Marsh (Colo) on 07/28/2024
Replied by S (Seattle) on 07/29/2024
Replied by AJ (Portland) on 07/29/2024
Replied by Katherine Murray (CA) on 07/29/2024
Get a spray bottle and add some iodine to distilled water and spray the tonsils with the iodine mixture. Maybe 1/8 C water 1 drop of 2% J Crows iodine. (My guesstimate of measurements). If still a problem add another drop. Spray again. Iodine kills bacteria, fungus, viruses, and cancer. Andrew Saul's website, DoctorYourself.com. I heard it in a speech he gave about his own child's tonsils.. Read about iodine on Andrew's website.Replied by Mama To Many (Tennessee) on 07/29/2024
Hi Marsh,5 of my nine children have had their tonsils removed over the years. The oldest was 13. The youngest was 15 months. No one had complications. Everyone was the better off for it for sure. Enlarged tonsils and adenoids caused sleep apnea for my children. For some it was severe.
The most important thing is to keep up with pain medication. It is harder to get on top of pain if medication is left off. The pain makes children not want to swallow. Swallowing is very important because the wound from the tonsillectomy will heal by moist wound healing.
My children were given Lortab which is is hydrocodone and acetaminophen. With my three year old we found that after a day or two he actually did better on acetaminophen alone. But if the Lortab seems to help more, then don't worry about needing it. The Lortab seemed to make my children more emotional.
Children need to drink often and it is painful to do so. Juice popsicles are great to keep on hand. When I had my tonsils out at 4 in 1971 they let me have ice cream. Now many doctors discourage it because it increases mucous. But having ice cream is better than not keeping the throat moist. You will just have to see. There are lots of creamy non-dairy ice creams available now, as well as homemade possibilities. Coconut milk is healing and soothing. Check out recipes for coconut milk/banana ice cream. Nutritious and soothing.
It takes 10 days to fully heal. Around day 6-8 seems the hardest. They still are uncomfortable but very tired of being down. Having something special in mind for that time (a game? movie? new treat?) is a good idea.
The only thing I can think of to give a child to help them heal faster would be homemade popsicles made with plantain tea. But that will not taste good. You may be able to sweeten it with honey (a natural healer) to make it palatable. Or 1/2 plantain tea with 1/2 apple juice or grape juice. (Orange juice is too acidic.)
Rest, a liquid vitamin C supplement and daily sunshine are good for helping the body to heal.
I was given some grief about getting my kids' tonsils removed. I was told it would harm their immune systems. But really, I have not found that to be the case. My son who is 28 is extremely healthy. He had his tonsils out when he was 6. They were so enlarged that they were touching. He had trouble eating and with schoolwork from being tired. When we had whooping cough 7 years ago, he was the only person in the family that didn't get it, in spite of constant exposure to us who had it. So, I don't think it hurt his immune system. With roughly half of my kids having had their tonsils out I never noticed one group any worse off, except when strep throat went around. Strep was much harder to kill off for my kids who had tonsils. Also several of my kids with tonsils struggle with tonsil stones.
I love using natural remedies but I have always been thankful for modern medicine and being able to get tonsils removed if needed.
I hope it goes well for him. He is blessed to have you watching out for him!
~Mama to Many~Replied by Galya (Arizona) on 07/30/2024
“Mama to many” Interesting that your entire family got whooping cough 7 years ago. Weren't you vaccinated? I was probably vaccinated against whooping cough in my childhood. When my kid was about 2 he probably had it but it was not that bad. The only reason I believe it was whooping cough is that I started coughing my guts out for a couple of months, and wished I was dead. A couple of years later an alternative health physician was doing some diagnostics on me using some sort of machine and I was positive for whooping cough.P.S. Earth Clinic, why “mamma's” comment posted 3 times?
EC: The system glitched on save. Thanks for letting us know. Deleted duplicates.
Replied by JD (Portland) on 07/29/2024
Does your child need a tonsillectomy?https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/child-need-tonsillectomy-2018032013504
“Why the drop? Well, complications are common. In fact, one in five children who have a tonsillectomy has a complication”
Replied by CZ (Moscow, ID) on 07/29/2024
Hello,after reading all responses to your post I want to add my 2 cents.
Belladonna – belladonna is the most common and hugely prescribed homeopathy medicines in tonsillitis. Belladonna has the best anti inflammatory action and thus helps a lot to relief the symptoms both in acute and chronic condition. But read more here https://www.multicarehomeopathy.com/diseases/6-best-homeopathic-medicines-for-tonsillitis-treatmentSurgery should never be the first option for acute and chronic health problems. In fact only in the US tonsillectomy, hysterectomy and a gallblader removal are put on a conveyor.
TG the number of tonsillectomies has been reduced dramatically since 1960 according to the Harvard’ article posted here.Lastly, it is like replacing a bulb when the wiring is faulty. Removing tonsils won’t fix the root cause of inflamed, enlarged tonsils. Always have a second opinion.
Homeopathy is coming back to the US. If someone had told me a year ago that I’d embrace it fully, I would’ve laughed. Luckily and unexpectedly, I found a fast resolution for a persisting chronic health problem by reading posts here, on EC. In fact it was an incidental cure, for the remedy I took was for one problem, but it cured another.
Replied by Mama to Many (TN) on 07/30/2024
Dear Gayla,Yes, I had been vaccinated for whooping cough as a child, as did my husband; we both got whooping cough at the age of 50. My oldest child had two vaccines for whooping cough as a baby. He had a severe reaction to the second so we stopping giving that vaccine. He was 23 when WC went around and got it in spite of the vaccine. My son that was 19 at the time got whooping cough in spite of having been vaccinated against it a few months prior to the outbreak (he got the vaccine to go to EMT school.) 6 of the seven unvaccinated children did get whooping cough. One did not.
We had classic symptoms and coughed for months. Most of the younger children had coughing to the point of vomiting and the classic, "Whoop." I had a blood test early on to confirm that I had WC so we could proceed with appropriate quarantine and treatment.
(Suzanne Humphries Vitamin C Protocol was very helpful, by the way.)
Interestingly, before we knew what we had we had been around my mother in law a lot. She was 80 at the time. She had had WC as an infant, so never had been vaccinated. And she did not get WC from us. Supposedly natural immunity to WC can last for. 30 years, but it lasted for 80 for her.
Vaccines are controversial and everything has risk. We had weighed the risk of vaccine reaction (having had a child who had one) against the risk of WC and complications. I know others who chose that vaccine with good reason. I am thankful to have always had the option to chose it or not.
~Mama to Many~
