My daughter, now 29, tells me she has no tonsils. This was confirmed by a physician. My daughter thinks that she must have had a tonsillectomy years ago, but she didn't. Children can be born lacking almost any organ in the body. Even so, I take issue with your daughter.
Tonsils are merely lymph glands at the back of the throat.
Such glands are an integral part of the immune system and help us to identify and destroy invading microorganisms. This is particularly true in childhood, when the immune system is developing and maturing. Tonsillitis typically causes fever, malaise, sore throat and a whitish scum on the tonsils themselves. Under normal circumstances, the tonsils grow during the pre-teen years. Then, starting about the age of 12 or so, they begin to shrink.