Chronic Tonsillitis, Sleep Disordered Breathing
Conditions
Brief summary
This research is being done because it is not known which dietary recommendations are best to help patients recover after a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy. The purpose of this study is to determine how diet after tonsil/adenoid surgery affects bleeding, pain, and oral intake.
Detailed description
Currently it is not known which dietary recommendations are best to help patients recover after a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy. Traditional standard of care is to recommend that patients be restricted to a soft diet post-operatively. However, the investigators believe that there may be benefit in allowing patients to eat a restriction-free diet. In this study, the investigators will compare the current standard of care verse a non-restricted diet. The purpose of this study is to determine how diet after tonsil/adenoid surgery affects bleeding, pain, and oral intake.
Interventions
OTHERDiet modification
Patients will be randomized to follow the standard post-tonsillectomy diet at our institution, which consists of soft foods for ten days, or will be in the non-restricted diet group following surgery.
Sponsors
Georgetown University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE (Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients 3-12 years undergoing tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy.
Exclusion criteria
\-
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bleeding | From time of surgery through postoperative day 10. | Blood tinged sputum or hemoptysis reported by patient or patient caregiver to on call resident or at post operative appointment; blood clot or bleeding from tonsil bed observed objectively on physical examination. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pain | From time of surgery through postoperative day 10. | Patient or patient caregiver report of pain at each post operative day using a validated Wong Baker FACES pain scale. |
| Days missed from normal activity | From time of surgery through postoperative day 10. | Patient or patient care giver reported number of days spent absent from normal activity as noted at post operative visit. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactKelly Scriven, MD
Backup ContactEarl Harley, MD
Outcome results
None listed