Do You Still Have Your Tonsils?

[tex]

Hi All,

Of course, there doesn't appear to be any research information available concerning MC directly, but here's a report of a study that investigated the possible effects of tonsillectomy on Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2504836

Note that for Crohn's patients who had undergone a tonsillectomy, the disease presented higher up in the GI tract, (in the ileum). No difference was seen for UC patients, but then, UC always originates at the distal end of the colon, anyway.

My thinking is that this could suggest that MC patients who had undergone childhood tonsillectomies, might be more likely to have small intestinal involvement with their MC, thus implying an increased chance of malabsorption, and additional symptoms. Of course, that's just a WAEG, at this point, but something that we might want to keep in mind, to see if we can discover a correlation.

Tex

[katinchatt]

Hi Tex,

I was looking into tonsils as being a home for H.Pylori, but am find the opposite to be true. At one time Doctors "swabbed" the tonsils to look for the bacteria.

Helicobacter pylori does not appear to colonize the tonsil. We believe that Helicobacter pylori primes the tonsils by inducing macrophage iNOS expression. The higher expression in sero-positive patients is a reflection of a pro-inflammatory reaction to Helicobacter pylori that is both local and systemic.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/b ... 6/art00513
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Oral lesions, varying in nature and location, appear to be one of the common extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease. In particular, oral involvement preceding intestinal disease may lead to the diagnosis of Crohn's disease. The present case report of a 17-year-old male patient describes a very rare nonintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease with severe granulomatous involvement of the tonsils. A sore throat caused by hyperplastic tonsils with granulomatous inflammation as an oral manifestation of Crohn's disease was the leading symptom in this case.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1618062

Fun Tonsil Facts:
1. If tonsils have not been removed completely they have the ability to grow back, possibly indicating to us how important they are.
2. Being at the terminus (furthermost point) of the lymphatic system, excess toxins work their way up to the tonsils and are released where they are either coughed up or go down the throat into the stomach and onto the intestine to be eliminated. To remove the tonsils is to close off this access of elimination.
3. FUNCTION: Stores sulfur needed to bust up and fight infection.
4.DETRIMENTAL TO THEIR HEALTH: Viruses and bacteria, refined sugar, fats, oils and especially milk products. A highly toxic bowel.
5. At one time X-Rays were used to shrink tonsils. Unfortunately Thyroid cancer resulted, fortunately this is no longer practiced.
6. REFLEXOLOGY: At the base of the big toe on each foot.
7. Vitamins A, C, D and E ~ Main Minerals, *Sulfur & Zinc <<< Tonsils like these!

[annie oakley]

I lost mine at age 21. But had Ibs symtoms early on way before that time. Love Oma

[MaggieRedwings]

Nope! Mine have been gone since 5 years old and had them removed twice within a year. Whether first time was a botched job or not I was too young to know. They just grew back and also had my adenoids removed at the first go round.

Love, Maggie

[Babsey]

Had mine out when I was 15. Chronic strep and tonsilitis since I was little. In fact, I had to take meds to shrink them before I could even get them out, since they were so big that they would touch.

[katinchatt]

Maggie,

You should be able to check the "No" box twice . ..LOL Actually, you are only the second person I've heard of this happening to, my Mom is the other, she kept her second set.


Kat

[RUBYREDDOG]

Lost mine at age 8. All I remember is the great ice cream they gave me in the hospital.

Hotrod

[Becky]

Hello,
I had chronic strep in the early teen years. I had my tonsils out at 15.

[harvest_table]

I also had chronic strep and had mine taken out about the same age as Becky.

Joanna

[Lucy]

My tonsils are gone -- was recovering in the hospital on my 5th birthday. I'd been sick allllll the time before those came out. Also, they were lots more liberal with removing them during that era. Things have changed due to increasing knowledge about that organ.

About the antibiotics, about all they had back when I was young was penicillin, and it saved my life on one occasion. Too bad all these good things have to have a boom-a-rang effect later in life, isn't it?

Luce

[Andi]

Just saw this post today, hope it is not too late to reply.
I still have my tonsils, (my appendix too).

[Carol Arnett]

After almost 69 years I still have mine although they have almost disappeared on their own. Love, Carol

[Carol Arnett]

Yes, I still have mine but at almost 69 they have shrunk to almost nothing. They have never given me a problem. Love, Carol

[Marilyn]

I lost mine at 5or6 yrs old.

[grannyh]

Guess they didn't know tonsils were part of the immune system in the 1940s and might be useful someday:)