Children having an adenoidectomy do not get fewer colds

Children having surgery to remove adenoids are unlikely to find any improvement in the number of colds they get.

According to findings by Professor Anne Schilder from the University Medical Centre Utrecht, children who have their adenoids removed do not get fewer upper respiratory tract infections than those who don’t.

The surgical procedure is the most common one to be performed in children and done so to reduce the number of infections they get.

But researchers argue that the procedure does not produce effective results.

Research of 111 children selected for adenoidectomy between 2007 and 2011 found that those who had the operation had 7.91 further infections compared to 7.84 in those who didn’t.