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Can you get tonsillitis if you have had your tonsils removed?
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No: Tonsillitis is inflammation of the tonsils with a number of possible causes. Without tonsils, this can not happen, unless the surgery did not remove everything.
Answered 3/7/2016
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No: However, you can still get infections of the throat. It's really pharyngitis not tonsillitis since the tonsils are (or in your case, were) part of the pharynx.
Answered 2/22/2017
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