Authors :
Md. Ashraful Islam; Nazmul Hossain Chowdhury; Tareq Mohammad; Towsif Bin Mamoon; Saif Rahman Khan; ASM Lutfur Rahman; Farid Uddin Milki
Volume/Issue :
Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 8 - August
Google Scholar :
http://bitly.ws/9nMw
Scribd :
https://bit.ly/2YgvtTB
DOI :
10.38124/IJISRT20AUG169
Abstract :
Tonsillectomy is a very common operation to
the otolaryngologist and relatively safe in expert hand.
Sometimes it bothers the surgeon for its acute and
chronic post-operative complications like reactionary
hemorrhage, throat pain, referred otalgia, dehydration,
velopharyngeal incmpetnce, burns of uvula, soft-tissue
injury, dento-mandibular trauma, and respiratory
compromise. Although rare, it is often associated with
altered taste and temporary or long continued loss of
taste sensation. In this article, the authors reported 39
(3.9%) cases of disturbance of taste sensation among
1000 post-tonsillectomy patients during the period 2015
to 2018 in the Bangladesh medical College Hospital. Age
of the patents was ranged in between 20 to 30 year. The
study was aimed to find out the possible cause of taste
disturbance in the post-tonsillectomy patients and
obtain informed written consent prior to tonsillectomy
Keywords :
Post-Tonsillectomy, Taste Disturbance, Complication.
Tonsillectomy is a very common operation to
the otolaryngologist and relatively safe in expert hand.
Sometimes it bothers the surgeon for its acute and
chronic post-operative complications like reactionary
hemorrhage, throat pain, referred otalgia, dehydration,
velopharyngeal incmpetnce, burns of uvula, soft-tissue
injury, dento-mandibular trauma, and respiratory
compromise. Although rare, it is often associated with
altered taste and temporary or long continued loss of
taste sensation. In this article, the authors reported 39
(3.9%) cases of disturbance of taste sensation among
1000 post-tonsillectomy patients during the period 2015
to 2018 in the Bangladesh medical College Hospital. Age
of the patents was ranged in between 20 to 30 year. The
study was aimed to find out the possible cause of taste
disturbance in the post-tonsillectomy patients and
obtain informed written consent prior to tonsillectomy
Keywords :
Post-Tonsillectomy, Taste Disturbance, Complication.
