No Difference in Pain or Febrile Episodes With the Use of Post‐Operative Antibiotics in Paediatric Coblation Intracapsular Tonsillectomy for Sleep‐Disordered Breathing or Recurrent Tonsillitis: A Prospective Randomised Trial

This prospective study highlights that routine prophylactic post-operative antibiotic use has a limited clinical benefit in paediatric intracapsular tonsillectomy. Improvement in halitosis was significant with antibiotic treatment; however, various other clinical parameters did not differ between the two subgroups, so the routine use of post-operative antibiotics in the above setting is discouraged.