When tonsils are removed in a 3 year old, are there any long term effects on his voice that may help improve how he talks? Right now you can hardly understand much that says....it has always been that way. His mom said the doctors say it will improve how he talks and his speech will change. Just curious...never heard of this.
Yes if the tonsils are really big they get in the way of the voicebox and getting clear sound out.
If you are going to have them removed anyway you will be happy to have a child who is healthier. Illness sets back a child's development in many areas.
I have had mine out, I think I have the same voice. . . but then again, I am overweight too. .. . maybe there really is a connection.
depends on what the issue with his speech is. Some kids with resonance issues (such as their voices sounding hyper-nasal) also have big tonsils & taking them out can have a positive impact.
but if you have a 3 year old whose speech is unintelligible, just taking out the tonsils is not going to fix the problem. I would contact a private speech langauge pathologist and your local school district to have him evaluated.
Tonsils don't directly affect the voice. Now if there are sinus and nasal issues involved and you're removing the adnoids and putting in ear tubes, that would be a different story. If the ears are filled with fluid it can affect hearing. And, of course, at that age, what you hear affects your developing speech. So, you would expect to see an improvement once the hearing improves.
Yes this is true. Whenever you remove nasal bits (tonsils, adnoids, get a nose job, etc) you can change they way you sound. This is why some celebrity singers REFUSE to have ANY surgery in that area....they can't risk the change.
I have never heard of it. The doctors are now saying NOT to have them removed. They must have figured out God put them there for a reason, even if we don't know what that reason is (like the appendix). I did have mine out as a child, and had less cases of swimmer's ear every summer thereafter.
I know I got really sick with a viral throat infection and it changed the way I laugh. :(
I don't know about that, but I DID hear on NPR a few days ago that someone did a study that a much higher percentage of kids with their tonsils out grow up to be obese. Who knew?? When I started thinking about it, a lot of my friends with weight problems had their tonsils out as kids. I wonder if it affects hormones or thyroid or...? Anyway, it was just one study, and totally off topic from what you were asking, but I thought I'd throw it out there as a consideration!
Lots of children that end up with their Tonsils being take out, have suffered with ear infections. This can delay their their speech, because their hearing had been affected.
I know our daughter had a hearing test before her adenoids were removed and tubes were placed in her ears.. She had almost total loss in one ear and poor hearing in the other.
After their removal. Her vocabulary shot through the roof after those procedures..
Our daughter had her tonsils and adnoids removed at 6 or 7 as they were very large. We had a very hard time understanding her before that time. Well, in first grade, they did an IEP in school regarding her speech and from first until sixth grade they pulled her out of class for speech therapy. She is now 18 and to this day she has a bit of a speech impediment but not major. Not sure how connected the two are or not but it certainly could be.
