[Is allergy a contraindication for tonsillectomy?]

Many immunologists indicate that tonsillectomy (TE) performed in patients with allergy has an unfavourable impact on the development of allergy and asthma. This warning has significantly decreased the number of TE in children, and resulted in an increase in the occurrence of peritonsillar abscesses, and high incidence of obstructive breathing disturbances during sleep associated with developmental physical and mental consequences in children. The subjective of this study was to find out the influence of TE on the development of allergy in 29 children, in whom their allergy was confirmed 1-5 years after TE. The allergic disease has improved or disappeared in 24 children (82.8%), no changes were recorded in 4 children (13.8%), deterioration has occurred only in 1 child (3.4%) who developed asthma, while in common population, asthma occurs in 10% of children. The results of this study confirm that TE does not have an unfavourable impact on the development of allergy, and therefore allergy does not represent a contraindication for tonsillectomy. (Fig. 1, Ref. 22.)