Wait to remove kids’ infected adenoids: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Removing the adenoids of kids who frequently get colds, sinus infections and laryngitis is more expensive and doesn’t lead to better health or fewer symptoms than a “watchful waiting” approach, according to new research. In other words, “waiting has no bad consequences,” Chantal Boonacker, who led the new research at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, told Reuters Health by email. Adenoids are the tissue between the nose and back of the throat, similar to tonsils. They help fight infection in children but shrink and disappear by adulthood. …