Conventional Treatment: a) Antibiotics initially. b) If there is recurrence knock- them- off surgery.

Disadvantage of the conventional treatment:

a) Antibiotics do not prevent recurrence. They may take care of immediate infection or inflammation but do not take care of the reduced immunity and every time the child is exposed to the aggravating weather like ice -creams, cold drinks, change weather the whole episode repeats. In fact the interval between the attacks go on reducing and the course of antibiotics prescribed, go on becoming more and more frequent.

b) Operation to knock off the tonsils used to be one time favorite of the E.N.T surgeons and had become a fashion in the early sixties of the last century. This was because the operated child would start putting on weight after the operation to the delight of the anxious parents. Amost all of these operated children became a victim of obesity or dangerous disease like Hypertension and other heart related diseases in early teenage to follow. Common sense has now prevailed and surgeons and physicians do not advise surgical intervention anymore.

Patho-physiology:

The inflammation of the tissue may take place due to bacteria attacking the tissue or the tonsils themselves. The common bacteria that attack these tissues are streptococcus, staphylococcus, bacillus diphtheria etc. If they are killed with antibiotics another set of bacteria are bound to come there to survive.

These bacteria come there because there is some nutrition available to them to survive. The nutrition is in the form of toxic products in the tissues. Unhealthy throat tissue is thus an invitation to the bacteria. The solution thus lies, not in killing the bacteria with antibiotic again and again, but eradicating the cause. This means, making the tissue healthy so that the immunity in the tissue increases and the tissue does not invite any bacteria.