Why do the doctors need appendixes for? - and tonsils

[Carlos Weston Chantor]

The doctors are obsessed with cutting off people's appendixes and tonsils. Any pain anywhere near these two, their first and immediate response is to cut it off. But people survived thousands of years without weirdo nerds cutting off their appendixes and tonsils. Why are doctors so obsessed with cutting off these perfectly good body parts? What do they do with them?

 

[StreetGangsta]

They want to make some sort of creature out of people's appendixes.

 

[lurk_moar]

When organ goes brrr, it needs to be removed.

 

[mario if smoke weed]

The adrenachromes. It's all stored in the appendicks.

 

[KateHikes14]

Just give up the organs goyim, don't forget your 90 day script of OC30s on the way out, and if you're one of the exceedingly rare addiction cases we have suboxone for that, it's so benign you can be on it forever so you never have to go through the agony of withdrawals.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

What do you think Viagra is made of?

 

[Hammerstein]

Practice.

It's also easier to remove an appendix when it's not filled with pus.

 

[BerriesArnold]

Tonsils, in my experience, are quite common to have removed for various reasons (tonsillectomy). The most common one is to abate bad breath caused by those who suffer with tonsil stones. Other reasons could be viral, inflammation etc... The tonsils are seen as largely benign so it would have no longterm effect on the patient. (This is the belief, of course*). It serves a purpose in the immune system, but people don't want poo poo breath, therefor this is a common and easy procedure.

Now the appendix serves as part of the lymphatic system and helps the body by keeping the digestive system functioning at tiptop shape after diarrhea and all that jazz. Since it sits right at the most caudal point of the large intestine, it may run the risk of being infected with stool and other bacteria if its opening gets clogged due to abnormal expansion of it's opening. Now this is all just guess work as science still can't 100% decide on its function. Appendicitis is usually the reason behind appendectomies.

Fun fact! The appendix (and other organs, teeth, bones etc...) are considered vestigial organs. So these are organs that are believed to at some point in our evolution to have had an important purpose. Not so much anymore. As our diets and lifestyles change overtime, other organs will serve bigger purposes and others will wither to the side too.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Tonsils, in my experience, are quite common to have removed for various reasons (tonsillectomy). The most common one is to abate bad breath caused by those who suffer with tonsil stones. Other reasons could be viral, inflammation etc... The tonsils are seen as largely benign so it would have no longterm effect on the patient. (This is the belief, of course*). It serves a purpose in the immune system, but people don't want poo poo breath, therefor this is a common and easy procedure.

Now the appendix serves as part of the lymphatic system and helps the body by keeping the digestive system functioning at tiptop shape after diarrhea and all that jazz. Since it sits right at the most caudal point of the large intestine, it may run the risk of being infected with stool and other bacteria if its opening gets clogged due to abnormal expansion of it's opening. Now this is all just guess work as science still can't 100% decide on its function. Appendicitis is usually the reason behind appendectomies.

Fun fact! The appendix (and other organs, teeth, bones etc...) are considered vestigial organs. So these are organs that are believed to at some point in our evolution to have had an important purpose. Not so much anymore. As our diets and lifestyles change overtime, other organs will serve bigger purposes and others will wither to the side too.

For a second there I thought you were suggesting that teeth and bones were vestigial.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Appendicitis can be cured with drugs, so I think that's how people dealt with that back then. Herbs, traditional medicine, and so on.

We don't do that anymore because the rate of success is not all that great and the chances of reinfection in the future are high.

 

[COCl₂]

Appendix is fucking delicious when you sous vide it

 

[Shiversblood]

The billionaire elites use the stem cells in the appendixes