This case study is of 6.5 years old child; MS B. C. (Patient Identification Number 13315) brought to Life Force by her parents for her recurrent tonsillitis and enlarged adenoids for 2-3 years.
She came to us with complaints of severe nasal blockage with difficulty in breathing through the nose. She almost kept her mouth open to breathe through, all the time. These attacks came almost every month lasting for a week or so each time. Along with this, she suffered from frequent colds with watering from the nose, recurrent sneezing associated with fever. She was also suffering from recurrent aphthous ulcers with redness of the tongue, gums, and inner lips with difficulty in eating and drinking.
She had severe enlarged adenoids and tonsils and was advised surgery for her complaints, by the ENT surgeon and pediatrician. She was on frequent antibiotics.
She had brought her X-ray of Nasopharynx, which showed enlarged tonsils, in the water’s view.
These complaints were also associated with hair fall.
She was vegan, with an average appetite. She had an excessive desire for fruits, sour and sweet things. She was sensitive to cold as well as heat. Her bowel movement and urination were normal with sound sleep. She had happy dreams of friends and enjoyment. During the attacks, she often complained of disturbed sleep her complaints.
She was a mild, expressive, and confident child, very neat and clean to appear. She was a very fearful girl with a fear of every small thing, fear of animals, darkness, staying alone, etc. She was a very obedient and sincere girl with a desire to remain in lots of company. She was timid, but easily mixed with people after knowing them.
She had a strong family history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, and frequent colds.
On examination, she had enlarged, swollen, and congested tonsils.
Her case was studied in detail by Dr Rajesh Shah and on basis of this, he prescribed his research-based medicines.
In the first follow-up itself, she was 50% better with her frequent cold, aphthous ulcer, and hair fall. By the end of three months, the family came to the clinic so happily, for the reason that she had no complaint of cold, aphthous ulcer, hair fall, tonsillitis, fever and had sound sleep with no mouth breathing and nasal blockage.
The homeopathic medicines based on the totality of the patient's picture improved her immunity and made her symptom-free in a very short span of time. This case illustrates the effectiveness of homeopathy in enlarged tonsils and adenoids with weak immunity where surgery was avoided and the patient significantly improved with her recurrent complaints.