Oversized tonsils can cause obstructive sleep apnea for certain kids–disrupting their ability to get proper rest for months or even years at a time, during a window of crucial brain development ...

Home remedies are available. Repeated gargling with warm, salted water can reduce inflammation, loosen the stones and allow them to separate from the tonsillar crypts.

If tonsil stones re-form and continue to cause health problems, however, a tonsillectomy may become the appropriate solution. Send your questions to [email protected].

This New Berlin boy's routine tonsil surgery led to 54 days in the hospital with at least 6 other surgeries and multiple complications. His family still doesn't know when he will be able to come home.

Dylan Dreyer’s 3-year-old son, Rusty, was all smiles the day he had his tonsils removed. “Bye bye tonsils!! Just like his brothers!” the TODAY meteorologist wrote on Instagram. She shared a ...

You’d be surprised by how many body parts are capable of regeneration.

People Are Just Now Learning Your Tonsils Can Grow Back If you're unlucky, you might have to have your tonsils removed twice.

Katy Golden's tonsils, removed 40 years ago, have grown back and are causing discomfort. She underwent a second tonsillectomy to address the issue.

Katy Golden, who had her tonsils removed when she was 5 years old, had them removed a second time — 40 years later.

In the summer of 1983, Katy Golden’s mom stocked their kitchen with popsicles and bubble gum. Golden was 5 years old and about to have her tonsils removed to help with some ear issues she’d ...

Forty years after having them removed, Katy Golden's tonsils returned to stir up trouble again.