Corticosteroids and severity of bleeding events after tonsillectomies

More and more kids are subjected to tonsillectomies. The number of surgeries in kids younger than 15 years old has enhanced substantially.
After tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy kids may suffer from vomiting and nausea. Thus, physicians recommend taking corticosteroids during surgeries in order to lower these post-operation side consequences.
Unfortunately, while corticosteroids reduce risks/severity connected with nausea and vomiting, they are associated with some other troubles. They may produce bleeding during and after tonsillectomies. Late researches have showed that the number of complications after tonsillectomies has enhanced during several last years. Since number of tonsillectomies becomes higher, complications appear more frequently too.
Certain specialists decided to define whether bleeding occurs after tonsillectomies on account of corticosteroids. They tried to find out whether there is any substantial difference in occurring of bleeding between children who administer the corticosteroid dexamethasone during tonsillectomies and those that are not given this drug. Thus, the specialists enrolled more than 300 children in the trial.
Results of the study have demonstrated that bleeding of the levels I and II are enhanced by 5% in those that take a single quantity of dexamethasone during tonsillectomy.
Thus, corticosteroids don’t enhance the risk related to post-operation bleeding essentially. However prescribers doubt about safety of corticosteroids applied during tonsillectomies, they don’t enhance grave bleeding events significantly.