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The NHS should remove more tonsils to avoid repeated cases of severely sore throats, according to British doctors.
About 200,000 children a year had the surgery in the 1950s but it is now considered old-fashioned and expensive, with only 29,000 carried out in 2010/11.
But a Finnish study of patients with recurring sore throats found that only four per cent of those who had their tonsils taken out visited their doctor with another sore throat five months after the procedure, compared with 43 per cent of those who had not had it done.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...id-repeat-cases-sore-throats-say-doctors.html
About 200,000 children a year had the surgery in the 1950s but it is now considered old-fashioned and expensive, with only 29,000 carried out in 2010/11.
But a Finnish study of patients with recurring sore throats found that only four per cent of those who had their tonsils taken out visited their doctor with another sore throat five months after the procedure, compared with 43 per cent of those who had not had it done.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...id-repeat-cases-sore-throats-say-doctors.html