The foods you should avoid with adenoids or after an adenoidectomy are spicy foods, sharp ods and hard and crunchy foods.
These hard, crunchy, sharp and spicy foods can irritate your throat, scratch the surgical area and cause pain.
Also avoid any acidic foods like grapefruit, tomatoes and tomato juice, lemons and oranges as they can cause stinging.
Instead after an adenoidectomy you should eat foods that are soft, bland and cool for the first few days after an adenoidectomy.
Even chilled and sour fruits, cold drinks, cold food, ice and ice creams and aerated drinks and snacks should also be avoided after an adenoidectomy.
The benefits of getting your adenoids removed are reduction in chronic ear infections, less and fewer nasal infections and less congestion, improved sleep quality and improved breathing.
Removing the enlarged adenoids, which lock your airway, allows for easier nasal breathing and reduces or even eliminates snoring and also resolves sleep disordered breathing and sleep apnea.
Adenoids that are near your Eustachian tubes can lead to ear infections and fluid buildup and removing the adenoids helps reduce chronic ear infections, persistent middle ear fluid and associated hearing issues.
The adenoid removal surgery also reduces chronic, thick nasal drainage and infections, that often improves overall sinus health.
And the better sleep and better breathing after adenoid removal can lead to improved energy, better behavior and cognitive performance.
The adenoid removal surgery is a quick and often 30 minute outpatient surgical procedure that is done under general anesthesia, with a quick recovery time.
Your adenoids are part of the immune system, but they can become chronically infected or enlarged and cause issues, especially in children like chronic snoring or sleep disturbances, frequent or chronic ear infections and fluid, chronic sinusitis and even runny noses.
And the adenoid removal has no long term negative impact on the body's immune system.
After your adenoids are removed, what happens is that you often experience some temporary discomfort including ear pain, bad breath, sore throat, voice changes and stuffy nose as the area where the adenoids were heals.
Healing after adenoids are removed often takes 1 to 2 weeks.
Although the worst pain after the adenoids are removed should go away within the first 2 days after the adenoids are removed.
The surgery to remove the adenoids also improves your breathing issues like sleep apnea and snoring long term.
During recovery after adenoid removal surgery, you need to manage the pain properly and stay hydrated for a smoother recovery.
Your immune function is also minimally affected after adenoid removal, but you should also monitor for any severe bleeding or dehydration.
The common symptoms during the first 1 to 2 weeks during recovery after adenoid removal includes.
Nausea and or vomiting within the first 24 hours, fatigue, small specks of blood in your mucus or saliva.
A low grade fever up to 101.5 F can happen and is normal during recovery of adenoid removal.
Voice changes like a muffled or nasal or higher pitched voice can also occur after adenoid removal, although it usually resolves itself within a few weeks.
You may also have a stuffy nose, runny nose or even an increase in congestion as the area where the adenoids were removed heals.
And a sore throat, ear pain, "referred pain" and neck soreness are also common during the recovery of adenoid removal surgery.
To manage pain after adenoids are removed, give or take pain medication as prescribed, even if you or the person seems fine, which prevents spikes in pain.
And drink or give plenty of fluids, like water and clear liquids to avoid dehydration and if you or someone has darker urine it's a sign that you need to drink more water and fluids.
After your adenoids are removed you want to eat soft foods initially, although chewing is still encouraged as your appetite returns, but avoid spicy, crunchy or acidic foods, which can irritate your throat.
And rest and stay home from school or work for a few days to a week after the adenoid removal and avoid crowded places to prevent an infection and avoid swimming or strenuous activity for around 2 weeks after your adenoids have been removed to prevent infection.
Removing your adenoids does not weaken your immune system significantly, as other parts of your immune system will take over.
The main benefit of removing adenoids are to improve breathing, improve sleep and reduce ear infections.
If you notice any bright red blood from the nose or mouth or blood clots, have difficulty breathing, have signs of dehydration like no tears or sunken eyes and no urine for 8 or more hours or have a high fever of over 102 F that does not respond to medication you should seek immediate medical care.