Adenoid hypertrophy is common in children, mainly concentrated in preschool age, is considered to be one of the important causes of developmental disorders and upper respiratory tract diseases in children, if not treated in time, it may cause many harms to children who are growing and developing.
So, let's first understand what is adenoid hypertrophy?
Adenoids, also known as pharyngeal tonsils, are lymphoid tissues located in the nasopharynx. Under normal physiological conditions, hyperplasia is most significant in children aged 2 to 6 years, and it basically disappears in adults. If the ratio of adenoids to the anterior diameter of the nasopharynx is greater than 0.7, it is pathological hypertrophy. Adenoid hypertrophy is a common disease in children and is closely related to sleep breathing disorders, nasal congestion and middle ear diseases.
The causes of adenoid hypertrophy mainly include long-term irritation of nasopharyngitis and sinusitis, respiratory infectious diseases, allergic constitution, chronic tonsillitis, and external environmental factors. Clinical symptoms include snoring, sleep apnea, open mouth breathing, nasal congestion, hearing loss, hyperactivity inattention, developmental delay, etc., may have an adenoidal face. In the autumn and winter when the incidence of respiratory diseases is high, it will be more serious, and children should be more careful when they call parents.
Hazards of adenoid hypertrophy
01
Growth retardation
Because children's development requires a lot of oxygen, and snoring will make children seriously hypoxic in sleep, directly leading to insufficient oxygen supply for brain development, causing a decrease in growth hormone secretion, and growth hormone secretion is the most in the early morning, so it will seriously affect the height of children. Moreover, the decline in physical resistance will also affect the child's future intelligence.
02
Intellectual development is imperfect
Due to the long-term blockage of the nose due to the hypertrophy of the children's adenoids, the brain is in a state of ischemia and hypoxia, resulting in the child's lack of energy and appetite, memory decline, slow response and headache, dizziness and other phenomena, which will affect the child's intellectual development.
03
Poor mental state
Due to the low quality of sleep, less sleep time, mental atrophy during the day, lack of concentration in class, and prone to grumpiness and other phenomena.
04
Predisposing to tracheitis
Due to adenoidal hypertrophy, it will cause nasal obstruction, promote the child's nasal discharge, stimulate the mucous membrane of the lower respiratory tract, and in the long run, it is easy to induce tracheitis.
05
Face changes
Long-term breathing with the mouth open will cause the development of the facial bone to be impaired, the jawbone to become elongated, the dentition to be uneven, the upper incisors to protrude, the lips to be thick, the lack of expression, and the appearance of the so-called adenoidal face.
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