Sentences with word «tonsillectomy»

His work also includes trains, buses, angels, and an idiosyncratic documentation illustrating before - and - after views of tonsillectomy surgery.

In the 1930s, 389 children were presented to New York City doctors; 174 of them were recommended tonsillectomies [surgically removing the tonsil, a small bell shaped piece of organ hanging inside your throat].

In a landmark 2007 study, they performed tonsillectomies on 26 kids with OSA who showed signs of vascular dysfunction; after the operations cured their sleep apnea, arterial tissue returned to normal in 20 of the patients.

Dwight's work is characterized by repetitive flowing text and «x-ray» views of loosely drawn, yet tightly composed male figures; his work also includes trains, buses, angels, and an idiosyncratic documentation illustrating «before and after» views of tonsillectomy surgery.

Saying you are pro abortion is like saying you are pro tonsillectomy.

Perhaps as providence would have it, an unsuccessful tonsillectomy robbed him of his voice for the best part of ten years.

Bartoshuk also found a link between tonsillectomies, which were a common treatment for ear infections until the late 1980s, and obesity: six - to 11 - year - olds who had their tonsils removed were 40 percent more likely to be obese as children than other kids were.

Miller and study co-author, Katherine Reith, M.D., an Otolaryngology resident at URMC, studied tissue samples from 102 patients who had elective tonsillectomies.

Recognition of this condition is of utmost importance, as children have died after routine tonsillectomies after receiving too much pain medication.»

This article looks at medical drug and surgical based interventions like anti-histamines, bowel surgery, over-prescribed anti-biotic prescribing, unnecessary tonsillectomy, nutritional deficiencies and diet and children.

(She has a tongue long enough to do an effective tonsillectomy, but the mechanism required to take our hero's magical powers and transfer them to the dying old guy who is lying on a high tech bed of nails is just one of many plot points obscured in darkness.)

Memories of a traumatic tonsillectomy, for instance, morphed into... more >

In a study of 78 children whose doctors had recommended tonsillectomies to treat sleep - disordered breathing and 27 who were scheduled for other kinds of surgery, Chervin's group found that not only did the tonsil kids have a higher incidence of ADHD than the control group but that a year after the surgery their behavior and concentration had significantly improved.

They wouldn't feel depressed about an appendectomy, a tonsillectomy, or a brain - tumor excision, but then they don't have a massive propaganda establishment constantly browbeating them about those things, do they?

This past Friday I had a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.

I decided I needed a bit of a breather in January, some time to regroup after a month of helping my littlest guy recover from a tonsillectomy and my biggest guy (my husband) recover from a shoulder / rotator cuff surgery.

My youngest son had a tonsillectomy this week... if only I could get him to sip on something so healthy!

In spring training this year he pitched very little because of a tonsillectomy, and then he was shipped out to Pitts - field of the Eastern League.

Where your child has a tonsillectomy may substantially affect his care.

«Children regulate their activity after a tonsillectomy much better than adults do,» which is one reason kids have an easier recovery, he said.

When needed, your doctor may recommend a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy which remove the tonsils and adenoids.

So if formula isn't as dangerous as a tonsillectomy, (which could be necessary, but still dangerous), why would you need to sign a consent form to get it?

Life has been crazy around here with my oldest daughter having a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, my four year old having an adenoidectomy and ear tubes surgery, and the baby being diagnosed with RSV.

Any larger scale study should start as soon as possible, vCJD experts say, because half of all tonsillectomies are on children under 10.

«A small portion of children are at risk of fatal toxicity from codeine, mainly in situations that make them more vulnerable to the effects of high drug levels such as after a tonsillectomy.»

For the study 40 individuals underwent 1 of 3 surgical interventions — tonsillectomy, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty or radiofrequency ablation of the tongue base.

But then I learned that a few months before I started my job, a social worker who had worked at the very center where I worked had died as a result of a tonsillectomy.

Her tonsillectomy was supposed to be «no big deal,» but she suffered from uncontrolled bleeding and was only found by her family when it was too late.

Her advice and the tragic passing of the young social worker I never got to meet solidified my decision against getting a tonsillectomy.

Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have had the tonsillectomy.

Hi Dr. Wentz, My ENT recommended a tonsillectomy for my recurring tonsillitis (happens monthly like clockwork around the time of ovulation and / or menstruation) but like you I am hesitant to do something so drastic.

, but the increase and chronic symptoms, including 6 years of chronic tonsillitis that ended in a tonsillectomy, came with the daily mercury and nickel exposure, so I look at the heavy metal toxicity as the root cause.

One of my twins had chronic ear infections and just recently had a tonsillectomy and had tubes put in his ears.

6 A filmmakers fast - food warning for kids; tonsillectomies and ADHD; teens cite school as their major cause of stress; and school nutrition programs.

And a mere six months into my first year of subbing, I required a tonsillectomy (the removal of the tonsils) after a grueling two months of infections and ceaseless cases of strep throat.

Post-surgery for a tonsillectomy requires very little movement or excitement from the patient, so before my surgery I downloaded three games on my PSP Go.

There's one problem though: the card reads, «Glad they didn't mix up your tonsillectomy with a mustachectomy!»

Dr. Lee had done a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy surgery on Adam, who died that same day from cardiac arrhythmia.

In Anderson, a surgeon performed a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, and left a sponge in the patient, who subsequently suffocated.

Day care procedures include cataract, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, dialysis, angiography, tonsillectomy, lithotripsy, etc..

Specified day care procedures such as dialysis, eye surgery, radiotherapy, tonsillectomy, etc. are covered, for which the hospitalization for less than 24 hours subject to sum insured limits.

The suffix «- ectomy» like in a tonsillectomy, means to remove.

So, a tonsillectomy is a procedure in which the tonsils are removed.

I'm currently hosting my 2 - year old's «personal retreat» on the couch, as she recovers from a tonsillectomy!

While this was a somewhat minor procedure (tonsillectomy, to be exact), for adults, the recovery is quite tough.