Should i sing with tonsillitis

How do the tonsils affect the voice? Should I have my tonsils removed? How do we minimize risks at CIVC? Having worked with a lot of singers and those who make a living with their voice, we are highly experienced and particularly sensitive to how the tonsils and tonsillectomy affect the voice, so we pursue many steps with patients to minimize risks: We talk with you about how anesthesiology will be used to best protect your vocal cords.

For example, in cases where a tube must be inserted between the vocal folds during surgery, we use the smallest tube possible and make sure an experienced clinician inserts the tube. We minimize the use of heat energy during surgery to preserve vocal tract muscles and reduce the risks of scarring and pain afterwards.

We carefully separate the tonsils from surrounding muscles to maintain the muscles in the back of throat you use to help place and shape notes afterwards. And, like you, if it ever came to a situation where they had become more of a liability to health than a help, I would certainly have mine removed. I can clearly remember every time I got my voice sorted my tonsils would swell, I'd be sick for 2 weeks and by the time I recovered I had lost all I'd gained. Funny thing Anyhow, that's what I was given and that's what I'll work with, but reading your post Mike made me realize I'd have achieved much more by now, mainly because.

I'd have had better information coming from the voice box and that would have helped me develop my voice in a more efficient way You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. Search In. Rate this topic 1 2 3 4 5. Share More sharing options Followers 0.

Recommended Posts. Posted November 3, Yesterday I got a call from one of my students saying she had lost her voice because she had a severe case of tonsillitis and her doc had advised complete vocal rest for 7 days at least. She could have passed the virus on to me. If you like horror stories about vocal health read on ; How this started ; It was friday afternoon a week ago -3 days before I went to the ETN and I had a live gig.

I teach, therefore I come in contact with many students - some of them were sick, but you can never know. It was too late to cancel and I wouldn't do it anyway since it didn't feel like laryngitis.

Smoking has been banned in my country but to my dismay the owner of the club allowed it - the place was crammed with smokers. I disregarded that and started my warm up only to find out the cold or whatever it was had affected my voice.

I downed all the water I could as well as my trusted black licorice and went on stage. However, the virus was there and after 3 days of teaching 12 hours a day, I had to visit the ETN doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Good luck, Thanos.

Posted November 4, Thanks for the reply Ron, it's an awful feeling indeed. Tonsillitis then. Doc said the lower part of the tonsils was swollen and gave me antibiotics - I shun medicines but after a week I had to take them as I could feel the "scratching" more and more everyday.

Maybe it was laryngitis creeping up and she didn't pay attention, I dunno. Posted November 6, Joanna Posted November 8, This is the preferred method of vocal judges of any kind: to be pleasantly surprised that the singer could even sound better than what was just sung. The cold virus typically begins to manifest itself in the throat, causing dryness and irritation in the back of the throat.

The larynx and vocal cords swell a little, and become inflamed. This inflammation either increases over the next few days, or gives way to a congested nose and nasal cavity, sometimes lasting for weeks.

This results in a throat that hurts more, so the person finds the quickest relief in cough drops with menthol, which is a numbing agent. This vicious cycle continues for days, eventually giving way to the congestion phase: constant sniffling, sore nose, nonstop mucus, and misery.

And if there is a performance during this period of time, all the symptoms of the sore throat and cold get even worse, sometimes resulting in no voice at all. There are several techniques to eliminate the cold with minimal pain and suffering. The first thing to realize is that trying to eliminate the symptoms with medications that numb the throat as a singer is dangerous. Remember, the throat is sore because the vocal cords are dry and inflamed, so the problem must be addressed with decreasing the dryness and irritation.

Drinking lots of water is the easiest way to decrease the dryness, and using cough drops that increase lubrication of the vocal cords will assist in the inflammation. An example of these cough drops is Halls Vitamin C drops, which also give the body vitamins to fight the infection.

There is even a good and bad way to cough with inflamed vocal cords. The opposite is clearing the throat. When a person clears his or her throat, the process involves closing off the throat and causing an explosion of air across the vocal cords. This just gives temporary relief from the mucus on the vocal cords, but increases the irritation, which in turn causes more coughing. Another technique to assist in the elimination of the sore throat is to change the environment in the throat to a more hostile one for the virus.

This is accomplished in several different ways. They vary in size and are susceptible to swelling for a variety of reasons. The removal of tonsils tonsillectomy has been practiced for nearly 3, years due to chronic or severe swelling, sore throats, tonsillitis, and more recently for extreme cases of sleep apnea and snoring.

There is no evidence showing that tonsillectomies weaken or impair the lymphatic systems ability to fight infections.

However, there are always risks involved with any kind of surgery and should be taken seriously when considering a tonsillectomy. So what does this have to do with singing? Tone the shape of sound is created primarily by the space above the larynx. The more space and smooth surfaces there are like a large tiled bathroom , the more overtones are amplified, creating a fuller and richer sound with less effort.

Someone who has had their tonsils removed, gained more space with less sound absorbing surfaces, which is beneficial for triggering overtones.