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Do You Still Have Your Tonsils?
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This survey result is pretty impressive - more than half of us no longer have our tonsils. In the U. S., less than 400,000 tonsillectomies are done each year. That's about 0.1% of the population, (IOW, a tenth of one percent). Since very few tonsillectomies are ever done past the age of about 20, that gives a lifetime risk of roughly 3% or less, for the general population, and yet we have a 56% rate among the members of this group - roughly 18 times the rate of the general population. That's an extremely high correlation, to say the least.
Tex
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Do you think that the way they used to yank out tonsils as a routine treatment for sore throats has anything to do with our poll results. When I was a child almost everyone had their tonsils out. I'm sure I had "sore throats" but I don't remember them being that bad. I sure remember the tonsilectomy though. HaHa
My Mother had her tonsils removed as an adult. Both my children had their tonsils removed also.
Just some mind wanderings........
Love, Shirley
My Mother had her tonsils removed as an adult. Both my children had their tonsils removed also.
Just some mind wanderings........
Love, Shirley
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber"
-- Winston Churchill
-- Winston Churchill
Shirley,
You're right. The surgery was so popular around here when I was growing up that I felt like some sort of freak, because my tonsils never bothered me, so I never had the surgery.
The correlation is so high on this survey, that the results certainly have to have some sort of major significance, and the fact that it was so common back then, (Got a sore throat? Let's remove those tonsils), may be a large part of it. Obviously, it's not a prerequisite for developing an IBD.
Still, I believe that the prevalence in the general population is much lower. I haven't been able to locate any data on prevalence categorized by age groups, though, and that might be the key. The membership here is not too drastically different from the demographics of the general population, from an age perspective, except that we are a little light on the lowest, and the highest, age brackets. That would skew the results a bit, but probably not enough to make a huge difference. It looks to me as though tonsils may well have a protective effect on MC. I'd love to see some "properly-designed" research specifically directed toward this concept.
Love,
Tex
You're right. The surgery was so popular around here when I was growing up that I felt like some sort of freak, because my tonsils never bothered me, so I never had the surgery.
The correlation is so high on this survey, that the results certainly have to have some sort of major significance, and the fact that it was so common back then, (Got a sore throat? Let's remove those tonsils), may be a large part of it. Obviously, it's not a prerequisite for developing an IBD.
Still, I believe that the prevalence in the general population is much lower. I haven't been able to locate any data on prevalence categorized by age groups, though, and that might be the key. The membership here is not too drastically different from the demographics of the general population, from an age perspective, except that we are a little light on the lowest, and the highest, age brackets. That would skew the results a bit, but probably not enough to make a huge difference. It looks to me as though tonsils may well have a protective effect on MC. I'd love to see some "properly-designed" research specifically directed toward this concept.
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
