If someone gets a kidney removed there can cause other problems. When someone gets their tonsils removed the only side effect is slight pain for a few weeks. What do tonsils and adenoids do that there are not many side effects.
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They help prevent infection of the upper respiratory tract, think of them like the hairs and mucus in your nostrils, for trapping germs in a sense.
Infact, having your tonsils or adenoids removed increases your risk of upper respiratory tract infection by 2 or 3 times. Having only your adenoids removed doubles your risk of copd and conjuctivitis. There are other effects but you can see that they do serve a very useful purpose, modern medicine has just made the long term side effects much easier to deal so we don’t considered them so serious.
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