Adenoidectomy

Some children may show to have some problems in their life because of their enlarged inferior adenoids. The parents of these patients take their beloved child to ENT doctor’s offices to find a solution for this issue. Doctors may initially prescribe some medications for treating enlarged adenoids. But, if the medications didn’t work, an adenoidectomy is the option that benefits these patients the most. By having an adenoid removal surgery, your child can get permanent relief from his\her adenoids impairments. To get you familiar with this medical procedure, we will comprehensively discuss the various aspects of adenoidectomy in the following article.

Symptoms of Inferior Adenoids

As stated, quite a number of reasons can make your ENT doctor prescribe your children to have his\her adenoids removed. Although adenoids are considered very beneficial in children’s bodies, they can also cause various problems for them. For your consideration, we list some of the major symptoms that your children may experience because of inferior adenoids below.

• Having difficulties breathing through the nose
• Experience nosy breathing
• Serious cases of sleep apnea (stop breathing while sleeping) that can lead to snoring
• Nasal congestion and infection
• Sinus infection
• Earache and ear infection
• Loss of hearing
• Have difficulty in swallowing the foods
• Frequent sore throats
• Breathing only through the mouth habitually

Please note that the above symptoms can be resulted due to several reasons, not just poor adenoids. Nevertheless, god forbid, if your sweet child is dealing with the mentioned complications, you should see an experienced ear, nose, and throat doctor immediately. As a general service from Flora, you can contact our online team consisting of ENT specialists to share your problems with. Our medical experts will deliberately inspect your condition and help you to overcome it efficiently and easefully.

How much does my Child’s Adenoidectomy Cost?

Actually, many factors can increase or decrease the cost of adenoidectomy surgery. As a result, the same cost for all the patients who need this surgery is impossible to be regarded. However, considering these influencing factors can help you to select a more economical adenoidectomy practice for your children. For this purpose, we brought up the factors that are changing the cost of adenoid removal surgery below for you to notice.

• Your ENT doctor’s experience and reputation
• The country or city where you wanted your child to get an adenoidectomy
• The type of anesthesia your child requires
• The hospital in which the surgery performs
• The age of your child
• The complexity of the adenoidectomy surgery

Additionally, if you are thinking of having your adenoidectomy in a foreign country, you should consider the following factors as well.

• Daily-life cost in that country
• The reputation that the particular country has for medical services
• The prices of different Medical tourism agencies

How much does an Adenoidectomy Cost in Iran?

We mentioned the affordable price of having an adenoidectomy in Iran as one of the advantages our country offers to international patients. Ordinarily, the costs of different medical practices in Iran are considerably cheaper than in Western and European countries. This is because of the low price of Iranian currency contrasted to the dollars. Thereby, in Iran, your children can get a superior quality adenoidectomy by the hand of the most skilled ENT surgeons in the world at the lowest possible cost. You can compare the adenoidectomy cost in different countries around the globe in the table below.

To plan your child’s promising adenoidectomy in Iran at the lowest possible cost, you can contact Flora’s online consultation HERE. Our experts will help you deliberately to schedule your child’s adenoid removal surgery effortlessly and easefully.

How to Prepare for an Adenoidectomy Surgery?

Patients should consider some guidelines for preparing themselves to get their upcoming adenoidectomy fittingly. The preparation stage is very important before all the medical procedures for having a more efficient outcome. That is why we list the needed instruction that your child should obey in order to get fully prepared for an adenoidectomy.

• It is better to be completely honest to your children about their surgery and its side effects, tell them that you would be healthier after the surgery, tell them that pain is possible after the surgery but only lasts for few days
• Take the essential medical test
• Pass some medical examination to assure that your child is in good health
• Inform the doctor about the diseases that your child has, like fever and chickenpox
• Take the medical pictures or x-ray from the adenoids
• Avoid taking any blood-thinning medication (such as ibuprofen and aspirin) in the week of the surgery
• Tell the doctor about the difficulties that your child is experiencing in details
• Avoid taking pain reliever medications (except acetaminophen) for the week before the adenoidectomy
• Don’t drink or eat anything after the midnight before your surgery (this also includes water)

Adenoid Removal Surgery Step by Step

During an adenoidectomy surgery, an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor will remove the inferior of your children. This surgery will not take much time, whereas the skilled ENT surgeon can perform it in less than 60 minutes. The usual steps of adenoidectomy are:

• Step 1: Anesthesia

This surgery is performed under general anesthesia. Your child will be fully sedated and sleep during the surgery.

• Step 2: Open the mouth by using special medical tools

To access the adenoid, the surgeon places a small tool in the mouth of your child for keeping it open while the surgery. Using ear grommets are also common in this step for draining away the patient’s ear infection.

• Step 3: Remove or reduce the adenoids

During this stage, the surgeon takes the needed method for removing or reducing the inferior adenoids from your child’s mouth. Normally, the surgeon will remove the adenoids surgically. The surgeon may also use electricity to warm the adenoid for removing it. Additionally, for some patients, the surgeon may recognize that the radiofrequency technique is more profitable. Radiofrequency, also known as coblation, adenoidectomy is performed by applying energy waves for reducing the size of enlarged adenoids.

• Step 4: See the result

You can take your child to your home after your doctor assured that there are no post-operative breathing problems, cough, and swallow. Your child will feel the result of his\her successful adenoidectomy after the recovery period (usually it takes two weeks).

Adenoid Removal Surgery Recovery and Aftercare

Like other medical procedures, passing a successful recovery timeline after your child’s adenoidectomy leads to the most promising result. There are some tips that you should consider for taking care of your child after his\her adenoidectomy. For the purpose of informing you about these guidelines, we prepared the following section in which you can read the Dos and Don’ts after the adenoidectomy surgery.

• Keeping the throat moist by drinking lots of fluids
• Swimming is avoided for a week after the surgery
• Doing strenuous activities (like running and jogging) is forbidden for your child for one week after the surgery
• Use an ice collar to reduce your children’s post-operative pain and selling
• Antibiotics are recommended to use for preventing the infection to occur
• Give your child acetaminophen to reduce their pain after their adenoidectomy
• Keep your children’s diet healthy

Advised Diet after the Adenoidectomy

Having a healthy eating pattern is very helpful to your children for recovering faster and better from their recent adenoidectomy. It is advised to maintain this advised diet for at least two weeks after your children’s adenoid removal surgery. For letting you know about the ins and outs of this highly recommended eating pattern after the adenoidectomy, we summarized its properties in below.

• Water
• Juicy fruits
• Ice cream
• Pudding
• Apple sauce
• Boiled chicken or beef
• Well-cooked vegetables and meats

You should also consider the below tips for your children’s eating pattern after the adenoidectomy

• Avoid giving them hot liquids
• Feed them slowly to avoid post-operative vomiting
• Prepare them soft, light foods
• Avoid giving them spicy, sharp foods
• Keep your child’s diet cool by giving cold foods

Good Candidates for Adenoidectomy Surgery

As adenoidectomy can treat children’s multiple problems effectively and permanently, in many cases having this surgery is suggested to worried parents. However, some symptoms of enlarged adenoids are in common with other complications that may your child has. That is why having a medical consultation is necessary for determining appropriate treatment for your beloved child.

During the medical visit, ENT doctors have various ways to diagnose your children’s adenoids to make sure that they are good candidates for adenoidectomy or not. Initially, they will check the symptoms that your child is suffering from. The doctor will observe the medical pictures and x-ray exam of your child’s mouth. They may also insert the endoscope into your nose to inspect the adenoids. In some cases, a sleep study may be needed to see the patients’ sleep disorders that require adenoidectomy removal for treatment. You can also contact Flora’s online team of ENT specialists to see whether your child is considered a good candidate for adenoidectomy or not. Surely, our ENT doctors can be a great help for diagnosing and treating your children’s enlarged adenoids. You can schedule an online medical visit by simply clicking HERE.

Alternatives to Adenoidectomy Surgery

There are some medical procedures, such as septoplasty and balloon sinuplasty, that have some commonalities to the achieved result of adenoidectomy. Tough, these surgeries cannot be regarded as alternatives to adenoid removal. Accordingly, the only medical operation that can treat the complications caused by an enlarged adenoid is an adenoidectomy. However, some other treatments can be profitable in patients with less serious conditions. Taking antibiotics and some other OTC medicines can reduce the symptoms that enlarged adenoids provoked. Using nasal steroids is workable in some cases. Nevertheless, you should note that these pills are not a treatment that gives permanent relief to your children and their efficiency also is a lot less than the adenoid removal.

Can an Adenoidectomy Treat my Child’s Nasal Congestion?

As we mentioned earlier, one of the symptoms of enlarged adenoids for children is having chronic cases of nose congestion. In fact, it is one of the most common reasons that convince their parents to arrange a fitting treatment for their loveable child. For these parents, an adenoidectomy surgery is known as the best way for treating children’s nasal congestion caused by their enlarged adenoids. According to ENT doctors, having a successful adenoidectomy is fully effective for relieving these annoying congestions for your children. To get more information on common treatments used for nasal congestion you can visit Flora’s nose congestion page HERE.

Tonsil and Adenoid Removal

Alike to adenoids, tonsils are a part of our immune system which majorly serves us during our childhood. Tonsils are two lump-like tissues located in the very back of the throat. They are not visible without special treatments. These tonsils can get infected and enlarged like their neighbors in the mouth, adenoids. The inferior tonsils of children may cause serious problems, like nose obstruction, problems in swallowing, and reoccurring sore throats. As these symptomsare also signs of in enlarged adenoids, ENT doctors should inspect their patients’ tonsils as well as the adenoids. When the inferior tonsils are the case, the doctor will perform both adenoidectomy and tonsil removal, also called a tonsillectomy, simultaneously. However, in some cases, only an adenoid removal sufficed for treating the problems.

Adenoidectomy Risks and Side Effects

Having an adenoidectomy surgery may arise its threats and side effects for patients. You as a parent of an adenoidectomy patient should know about the probable side effects that may occur for your beloved children to react properly. To achieve this goal, we prepared the following section in which you can read about these adenoidectomy risks and side effects.

• Some problems in swallowing
• High fever
• Bleeding at the site of removal
• Infection
• Vomiting and nausea
• Nasal congestions that lead to stuffy runny noses
• Change in the voice
• Breathing problems
• Earache

Most of these complications will fully disappear on their own once the patient passed the recovery period. Tough, in some cases, a special treatment is required which will be prescribed by ENT doctors at the medical follow-up sessions.

Flora’s Follow up Program for Adenoidectomy

 Although adenoidectomy surgery doesn’t have a complex recovery procedure, children patients should have a scheduled organized follow-up program after their surgeries. A consistent follow-up program would have many benefits for patients. Any complexity they might have should be studied and treated by follow-up medical sessions after the surgery. Moreover, the doctor should examine the patient’s condition regularly to prevent any problem. Due to the high value of an ordered follow-up for patients’ recovery procedures, Flora devised a consistent follow-up for its beloved customers. Our follow-up program, which continues after two years of your surgery, provides our patients with various interests. In the following, we list some of the advantages that Flora’s follow-up program has over the other medical tourism facilitators.

• Flora has a 24\7 follow-up team that involves ENT specialists
• Flora’s follow-up team will support you for two years after the adenoidectomy
• Flora has a CRM which is a customer relationship management
• Besides the follow-up team, Flora’s customer can communicate with their doctors 24\7 and ask them about the barriers they may face
• Flora’s customers will join Flora’s customers’ club in which they can profit from special discounts on cosmetic and medical services

With having this extraordinary follow-up program, your lovely children will have no complications after their adenoidectomy surgery. For planning your children’s superior-quality adenoidectomy procedure via Flora, you can easily send us a request HERE.

Adenoidectomy and Balloon Sinuplasty

Balloon sinuplasty surgery is a modern type of sinus surgery that is considered very beneficial for its patients. By having a balloon sinuplasty patients can get relived from the infections and blockages in their sinuses. This procedure combines with adenoidectomy, if the ENT doctor sees it feasible, for children who are suffering from serious cases of nasal blockage and sinus infection. To get more information on the balloon sinuplasty procedure, cost, benefits, and other related subjects, please visit Flora’s balloon sinuplasty page HERE.

PE Tubes and Adenoidectomy

Pressure equalized tube insertion, colloquially known as PE tubes, is a medical procedure used for reducing the ear infections and earaches of patients. During this surgery, which is performed under general anesthesia, the ENT doctor suction out the fluids in the ear through the small incisions he made in the eardrum. The doctor will utilize the tiny plastic or metal tubes for releasing the fluids from the ear. This treatment can combine with adenoidectomy surgery to give a more relieving result for patients with chronic cases of earaches. To get more information about this medical procedure and its related subjects, please visit Flora’s other page HERE.

Can Adults have an Adenectomy?

As we said, adenoids will shrink on their own during the aging process. For most people adenoids will be completely disappeared once they become 18. However, in rare cases, adults may keep their adenoids, and need adenoid removal when it became swollen and enlarged by chronic infection or allergy. Hence, although adenoidectomy is mainly performed in children, some adults may profit from undergoing this surgery.

Last Word

Throughout the above article, we examined how an adenoidectomy procedure can enhance the quality of your child’s life. Besides, we discussed the cost, candidates, side effects, and other associated matters of adenoidectomy. We believe that by reading this article, all your questions regarding the adenoidectomy procedure are thoroughly clarified. However, if you still need more information, please contact Flora’s online consultation team HERE. Surely, our medical experts will help you with any problems you are facing. You can also ask them about the services that Flora is offering to you.