Advanced tonsils less pain for children
Each year, more than 400,000 children undergo tonsillectomy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making it the pediatric surgery is the second most common type. Parents often schedule surgery for your child during the school holidays, including summer holidays, to accommodate what has traditionally been a long and painful recovery.
But thanks to an advanced approach to the removal of the tonsils, kids can spend more of their school holidays to play in the park, beach or lake with friends, instead of in bed and in pain. About Coblation tonsillectomy procedure ® uses a unique low-temperature technology is clinically proven to accelerate the child is back to normal activity and diet, and reduce postoperative pain drug use and the possibility of rebleeding in comparison with previous heat-based technology as electrocautery.
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2001, the technology that combines radiofrequency energy with saline, which evenly and precisely remove tonsils without damaging surrounding healthy tissue. Electrocautery tonsillectomy another common technology, apply heat to 650 degrees Celsius to remove the tonsils, which can burn and scar tissue, causing a longer recovery period and more painful.
It is unfortunate that many children spend up to two weeks during the school breaks from his bed and painkillers recovering from tonsil, rather than enjoying your vacation , says Dr. Yaremchuk of Henry Ford Detroit, MI.
, I have noticed that with this advanced technology, children are back to normal activity and normal diet as soon as two or three days after surgery.
A tonsils treatment for obstructive sleep apnea is generally believed that treatment for the infection of the tonsils. However, between 70 and 80 percent of the operation performed because of the tonsils of children have become too large for the airway, which can lead to obstructive sleep apnea.
This dangerous condition can lead to snoring and breathing problems during sleep, resulting in daytime fatigue or hyperactivity, as well as other problems related to sleep deprivation.
is important that parents are aware of the signs of obstructive sleep apnea in their children and understand that there are new options for this common procedure, causing minimal discomfort to the child , explains Dr.. Yaremchuk.
