Research on links between dexamethasone and bleeding after tonsillectomies

More and more kids are subjected to tonsillectomies. The number of surgeries in children younger than 15 years old has increased obviously.
After tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy children may have vomiting and nausea. Thus, health care providers prescribe using corticosteroids during surgeries in order to lower these post-operation negative consequences.
Unluckily, while corticosteroids decrease risks/severity linked with nausea and vomiting, they are associated with certain other troubles. They may produce bleeding during and after tonsillectomies. Recent studies have manifested that the number of complications after tonsillectomies has increased during several last years. Since number of tonsillectomies becomes higher, complications appear more frequently as well.
Certain scientists decided to define whether bleeding occurs after tonsillectomies on account of corticosteroids. They tried to find out whether there is any substantial difference in appearing of bleeding between kids that administer the corticosteroid dexamethasone during tonsillectomies and those that are not given this preparation. So, the specialists enrolled more than 300 kids in the trial.
Results of the trial have manifested that bleeding of the levels I and II are enhanced by 5% in those that apply a single quantity of dexamethasone during tonsillectomy.
So, corticosteroids don’t increase the risk linked with post-operation bleeding substantially. However physicians doubt about safety of corticosteroids used during tonsillectomies, they don’t enhance severe bleeding events essentially.