Single dosage of dexamethasone used during tonsillectomies may lead to post-op bleeding

More and more kids are subjected to tonsillectomies. The number of operations in kids younger than 15 years old has increased substantially.
After tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy children may experience vomiting and nausea. Thus, health care providers indicate using corticosteroids during surgeries in order to lower these post-operation negative results.
Unfortunately, while corticosteroids minimize risks/severity linked with nausea and vomiting, they are associated with some other dangers. They may lead to bleeding during and after tonsillectomies. Some studies have manifested that the number of complications after tonsillectomies has increased during several last years. Since number of tonsillectomies becomes higher, complications occur more often too.
Several scientists decided to determine whether bleeding occurs after tonsillectomies on account of corticosteroids. They attempted to find out whether there is any substantial difference in occurring of bleeding between kids who apply the corticosteroid dexamethasone during tonsillectomies and those that don’t receive this remedy. So, the scientists enrolled more than 300 kids in the research.
Results of the research have showed that bleeding of the levels I and II are enhanced by 5% in those who use a single dosage of dexamethasone during tonsillectomy.
Thus, corticosteroids don’t maximize the risk linked with post-operation bleeding significantly. However doctors doubt about safety of corticosteroids used during tonsillectomies, they don’t increase severe bleeding events obviously.