Can your tonsils grow back after being removed?
I have heard in numerous places that your tonsils can grow back after being removed. I have also heard that this is impossible. It’s a very disturbing concept so any doctors or tonsil specialists on Yahoo! Answers are encouraged to respond. (Or any random person that has a clue, HaHa)
Thanks.
Tonsils and adenoids are lymphoid tissue. This is the same tissue that forms large lumps in your neck whenever you have a bad sore throat. (Those lumps are lymph nodes.) Lymph nodes can grow endlessly … & can sometimes be very large. Tonsils and adenoids have this same ability; as with lymph nodes, the individual cells that make up a tonsil or an adenoid have an enormous proliferative capacity.
Some body tissues can regenerate (grow back), and some can’t. Skin, for example, is able to regenerate. The liver can regenerate itself, provided it is not too severely injured. Nerves outside the central nervous system can regenerate to some degree, but nerves within the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) have a very poor ability to regenerate.
i don’t think so
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well that is unlikely but it could be possible if you have a lot of nutrition or even vitamin
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I don’t believe they can because when you get tonsillitis it means your tonsils are inflamed. When removed they’re removed. They won’t grow back because you’re born with them its like growing back a kidney if removed.
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No, Never heard of that one.
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Yes, they can. My friend had hers removed, and they grew back within a year.
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personally i dont think its possible, but i have heard of it happening in extremely rare cases. anything is possible i guess.
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Tonsils and adenoids are lymphoid tissue. This is the same tissue that forms large lumps in your neck whenever you have a bad sore throat. (Those lumps are lymph nodes.) Lymph nodes can grow endlessly … & can sometimes be very large. Tonsils and adenoids have this same ability; as with lymph nodes, the individual cells that make up a tonsil or an adenoid have an enormous proliferative capacity.
Some body tissues can regenerate (grow back), and some can’t. Skin, for example, is able to regenerate. The liver can regenerate itself, provided it is not too severely injured. Nerves outside the central nervous system can regenerate to some degree, but nerves within the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) have a very poor ability to regenerate.
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most of the time no but it is possible usually young children
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retired nurse