Aw, poor kid. I went through a period from about 16 to 26 when I would get tonsillitis every 4 or 5 months. Apparently not on the bit that can be removed either. It's not nice as an adult. Must be horrible for her.

Hope she's better soon.

Thanks, David.

I had mine out on my seventh birthday. I didn't get a lot of tonsillitis, but I couldn't breathe through my mouth. So out they came.

The worst for me is that I kept getting ulceration on my uvula. (Actually, for the first few years I got them on my epiglottis, then found out that it wasn't called that.) That is one bit of you that you really don't want to accidentally bite.

"the nasty taste of the drug disguised with the even nastier taste of sickly sugary chemicals with names (but definitely not flavours) like "banana" and "strawberry"...(Incidentally, why the hell not use chocolate flavour? Kids love it, and even rather cheap fake chocolate flavour tastes of actual chocolate.)"

There's no doubt an actual reason for this, since getting kids to take the stuff ought to be a priority for the company. Hope that reason isn't some ridiculous 'we want to encourage fruit consumption because it's healthy, but not chocolate because it's sinful, so even artificial flavours for medicine have to conform' crap.

Wouldn't put it past them though...

>>Hope that reason isn't some ridiculous 'we want to encourage fruit consumption because it's healthy,

Surely fake, horrible fruit flavours would put you off real fruit?

Aw, the poor wee thing. I, too, had multiple bouts of tonsilitis between the ages of 6 to 10. Still got my tonsils though. I have vague memories of a yellow medicine, don't know what it was supposed to taste like. Medicine flavour, probably - it was the 1970s.

Hope she gets better very quickly, and that you and Vic are well.

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When I was a little kid here in the US, they removed your tonsils. I still have mine. Never had it. But I got all the others: Measles, German measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough. They gave us polio vaccines then, this nasty red syrup on a sugar cube. The sugar cube didn't help. I sympathize with her.

> When I was a little kid here in the US, they removed your tonsils.

Oh, they used to do that here, too, until someone discovered that the reason your tonsils get so inflamed is that they're fighting infection: they produce white blood cells. So now they're a little less cavalier about it and only remove them if the tonsils are fighting infection so overenthusiastically that they're giving you serious problems. Which, in Daisy's case, it looks like they are.

I had mine out on my seventh birthday. Nice. But not 'cause of tonsillitis (though I did have it once), but because I couldn't breathe with my mouth shut.