I seem to get tonsillitis every year. Doctor just gives me antibiotics. It clears it up but then it happens again the next year. Is there anyway I can prevent this other than getting my tonsils out?

I got mono every year from the time I was 12 until I was 40 like clockwork. I would get tonsillitis so many times also. I was not well long enough to get my tonsils out and never did get them taken out. I have not gotten tonsillitis since I was about 19 or 20. You need to just eat healthy and not get run down.

Someone I know had to get their tonsils out because of this, they are useless anyway

Thanks. I find I get this problem at this time of the year when the weather changed.

Louhels. Tonsils are there to protect us though?

If you can somehow tough it out, keep your tonsils. If anything, they act like a first line of defense for me and each year I get less and less of a throat problem. You may be able to ride it out like I did. Unless you are really, truly extremely ill each year, I'd opt for the no surgery route.

Answered a similar question some time back. In your case, although you have asked advice only on prevention therapies, I would like to start with a suggestion regarding the surgery involving removal of tonsils that many doctors might suggest you in time to come.

I am 34, and had a big time problem with my tonsils when I was a child. Every now and then, a suggestion would come that I should go for Tonsillectomy.

Somehow, that decision was never taken my parents, and here I am, hail and hearty with most of the tonsils related problem gone long back. Yes, I do suffer from colds more than anyone else in my family, but it is manageable (may be because I suffered more in the past). Off course, sore throats are less common and less scary also, as the severity and their running time is much less now.

Now, coming to most cases here, your doctors must have had a valid reason for telling you folks that this surgery is required, but I would like to share a few facts with you, if at all, you are not aware of them.

Tonsils are four little lymph glands situated in your throat. Actually, tonsils do a very important job of trapping bacteria in their crypts. Then the phagocytes from the blood consume these bacteria, hence the infection is trapped before it reaches the bronchial tubes and lungs. When these warriors are overwhelmed by the striking bacteria, they get infected, inflamed and enlarged and tonsillitis occurs. You then have to nurse them back to health instead of ignoring, and worse still, think about getting them removed. Think about getting rid of them only when they are getting chronically infected, that too, after you have tried all possible treatments including herbal preparations.

It has been seen that the chances of getting upper respiratory infections increase manifold once these are removed. Some of you feel better after the operation simply because your inflamed tonsils were a bigger pain than the problems you might be facing without them. Had they been taken good care of then, you would probably (yes, Tonsillectomy could become a necessity in few cases) had led a better life without the need of surgery. Now, it is well established that a simple enlargement of them or an infection in them, twice or thrice a year, doesn’t call for their removal.

There are effective natural remedies that can help to support and maintain throat and tonsil health, boost immune functioning and fight tonsil infection when it occurs. Herbal and homeopathic remedies contain carefully selected ingredients that are gentle on the body’s system, without harsh risks of unwanted side effects or addiction.

Use Gallium aperine, also known as Cleavers, which is an excellent cleansing tonic with a particularly beneficial effect on all the lymph glands, including the tonsils. Salvia officinalis benefits all conditions of the mouth and throat and has well-known herbal astringent, antibiotic and antiseptic properties.

There are a number of homeopathic remedies, such as Belladonna and Merc. Sol recommended in the treatment of acute tonsillitis and can help to clear the infection as well as prevent unnecessary tonsillectomies.

So, I would suggest (pardon me if I am not aware of something about you which renders the whole discussion useless), that you follow the link below for a lot more information and suggestions (slightly different from what you must have been told till now) and see if it helps.

Hope all this helped

Good Luck!

For more info on tonsillitis and inflamed tonsils and natural remedies available, you may visit this link http://healthherbsandnutrition.com/remedies/t/tonsillitis.htm

I used to have tonsillitis every year. But I got cured by taking a simple remedy. I have written my experience about it here:

http://health.wikinut.com/How-to-avoid-removal-of-your-tonsils/227fgm18/

I used to have tonsillitis every year. But I got cured by taking a simple remedy. I have written my experience about it here: How to avoid removal of your tonsils
(http://health.wikinut.com/How-to-avoid-removal-of-your-tonsils/227fgm18/)