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[The usefulness of sucralfate in postoperative improvement of children's tonsillectomy]
Introduction:
Sucralfate is an effective agent in the treatment of peptic ulcer, mixing up the fibrinous exudate of duodenal ulcer to form a protective barrier promoting its healing. Similarly the deprived muscle in the tonsillar bed results protected and consequently bring down the post-surgical morbidity.
Objective:
The aim of this study has been to ascertain the suitability of sucralfate in alleviating symptoms after tonsil's removal.
Material And Methods:
205 children were included in the study and randomly postoperative treated with sucralfate. A lot of different parameters were controlled afterwards such as days with pain, taken of analgesics, return to normal diet, fever, bloody saliva, halitosis or vomits.
Results:
There was a significant association between the use of sucralfate and less days with sore throat, less pain and analgesia required.
Conclusions:
The use of sucralfate means and efficient measure in order to alleviate the pain and postoperative discomfort associated with tonsils removal, being a cheap drug and without having topical after-effects.
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