My health issue

When I was an elementary school student, I was told that I have an enlarged tonsil.

              An enlarged tonsil is a somehow common type of disease. A tonsil is an organ which is around the end of the mouth, in other words, the beginning of your throat. Some of you should have been warned like ‘Don’t breathe with your mouth open. The virus and germs will be on the mucous membrane of your throat.’ So in my case, since my tonsil is larger than other people, my throat tends to catch these virus and germs and be infected by them if I breathe with my throat.

              I recognize that’s why I’ve tended to catch a cold than others. I tried to make mouths close as much as possible. But while I’m sleeping, it’s pretty difficult. My parents consider asking the doctor about this problem. However, according to study, the easiest way is an operation, and generally the tonsil is getting smaller and it’ll be the size of the average by the time you become adult.

              Since my parents didn’t want to make me take a needless operation because of the risk (it was pretty small though) and the money we need for that, I didn’t anything with that. And I haven’t seen my doctor for a long time, so even I’m not sure if it’s been cured or not. But I’m sure I get a cold less times than I was a child.

              So I’ve thought an enlarged tonsil is not serious disease at all. However, according to my research, I found out it can be the cause of SAS, sleep apnea syndrome, which may cause your death. It’s the syndrome where you stop breathing for a while when you sleep. And an enlarged tonsil can be fall down and make your throat stuck because the tension of your muscle is released while you’re sleeping. Especially, for fat people (they usually have narrow throat), an enlarged tonsil can be a serious problem.

              For those people, sucking out their fat or cutting some parts of their tonsils will be the best treatment.

              In addition to those, an enlarged tonsil can cause some problem on drinking or swallowing because a large tonsil may bother the foods in a throat. This may lead you to malnutrition, so you’ll need to take treatment like what I mentioned above in this case.

              Fortunately, I was not in that serious case. But we need to remember your small health problem can be serious.