Corticosteroids lead to post-op bleeding

More and more children are subjected to tonsillectomies. The number of surgeries in children younger than 15 years old has enhanced essentially.
After tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy kids may have vomiting and nausea. Thus, health care providers direct applying corticosteroids during operations in order to reduce these post-operation adverse effects.
Unfortunately, while corticosteroids reduce risks/severity connected with nausea and vomiting, they are associated with several other troubles. They may produce bleeding during and after tonsillectomies. Late studies have manifested that the number of complications after tonsillectomies has increased during some last years. Since number of tonsillectomies becomes more increased, complications appear more frequently too.
Several specialists decided to determine whether bleeding occurs after tonsillectomies because of corticosteroids. They tried to find out whether there is any significant difference in appearing of bleeding between kids who use the corticosteroid dexamethasone during tonsillectomies and those that are not given this drug. Thus, the scientists enrolled over 300 children in the study.
Results of the trial have displayed that bleeding of the levels I and II are enhanced by 5% in those who are given a single dosage of dexamethasone during tonsillectomy.
So, corticosteroids don’t increase the risk linked with post-operation bleeding obviously. However scientists doubt about safety of corticosteroids used during tonsillectomies, they don’t increase severe bleeding events significantly.