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Tonsillectomy

tashagoodsin
My 3 year old son had a tonsillectomy 2 weeks ago and his throat is still white - is this normal?
I am a little worried - the whole experience has been horrific.
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Enoch Choi, MDBlank
OtoHNS_MD is right, the areas that are healing have whitish healing tissue up to a month after surgery.  Outside of those areas, you'd worry that those are pus, and not normal healing since it's not in areas cut in surgery.
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It is normal for the area where the tonsils used to be to look white for about 2-4 weeks after surgery.  If other areas of the throat are white, I would check with your Otolaryngologist(ENT)
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