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Can you live with an enlarged right tonsil or tonsilar gland enlarged. no pain or not hard to swallow. don't get strep often. y would it stay big?
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Just does: Sometimes tonsils that swell up from infection stay swollen even after infection has gone away. Nothing to worry about - it just is!
Answered 7/14/2014
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