“I didn’t think it was a possibility," said Katy Golden, who had her tonsils taken out when she was 5 years old Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She joined the brand in ...

Roughly 290,000 tonsillectomies are performed in children under 15 years old every year in the United States. Though the tonsil hospital closed decades ago, tonsillectomies still remain one of the ...

If you’ve had surgery to remove your tonsils — a procedure known as a tonsillectomy — it’s possible for your tonsils to grow back. This can happen if tissue that gets left behind after the procedure ...

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the tonsils are part of your body’s lymphatic system, which helps fight off infection. Since they are located in the back of your throat, tonsils ...

Did you get your tonsils taken out as a kid? For people who grew up before the 1980s, the surgery and its attendant promise of icecream and jelly afterwards were almost a rite of passage. But while ...

Tonsils serve as sort of a filter in your body. Chances are many of you have had them removed, but two recent studies differ on when and if that’s necessary. Dr. Teresa Chan-Leveno is chief of ...

People have four kinds of tonsils. The term tonsils usually refers to your palatine tonsils, the ones that can be seen at the back of your throat. But tonsillar tissue also includes the lingual tonsil ...

Tonsils, everyone is born with them, but what do they do? “Nobody really knows exactly how they work or what their function is,” says Dr. Ryan Winters, a board-certified Otolaryngologist Head and Neck ...

I used to think of my tonsillectomy as a one-off procedure I’d had when I was in kindergarten, looking back fondly on the days recovering and sipping Slurpees. A decade later, I was taken by surprise ...

OAKDALE, Conn. (WTNH) — Tom McCarthy, 34, has an active life as a firefighter and family man, but his loud snoring was starting to impact others in his life. “I was living in a firehouse at the time ...

White spots, blotches, or streaks on the tonsils can be a sign of various conditions, including strep throat and oral thrush. Treatment is available for most of these conditions. The tonsils are part ...

Those mysterious white spots appearing on your tonsils can trigger immediate concern, and rightfully so. While they might seem like a minor inconvenience, these patches often signal your body’s battle ...