Children who sleep sometimes make a soft snoring sound, which is often considered a sign of deep sleep. Therefore, snoring caused by children's adenoidal fat is often ignored by parents, and most of the children's adenoidal hypertrophy and tonsil enlargement constitute the cause of snoring, and special attention should be paid to whether there is apnea, and if necessary, go to the hospital to check the adenoids. The following doctors from Chongqing Hongyitang Hospital will introduce you to you, how to check for adenoidal hypertrophy?
For the examination of adenoid hypertrophy in children, an anterior nasal microscopy should be performed first, and during the examination, the patient should fully contract the nasal mucosa and see that there are bulging red lumps inside. The patient's face can be observed, and the adenoidal face can generally be seen; At the same time, a oropharyngeal examination is performed, and symptoms of enlarged tonsils may be seen. Generally for children, are used to do fiber nasopharyngeal mirror, fiber nasopharyngeal mirror examination, children need to fasting for about 4 hours, when doing fiber nasopharyngeal mirror, smaller children may not be very cooperative, parents more soothing, the general fiber nasopharyngeal mirror pain is still relatively small, the vast majority of children can tolerate.
The doctor will pat the child, feel the lump in the relevant area, and then perform nasopharyngeal lateral tablet measurements to understand the degree of rhinitis airway obstruction of the patient. In order to further understand and confirm the diagnosis, it is also necessary to perform fibronopharyngeal microscopy, x-ray nasopharyngeal lateral pat, CT, so that the patient's symptoms can be more clearly understood, and the diagnosis can be obtained, which is convenient for subsequent treatment.
The doctor of Chongqing Hongyitang Hospital reminds that if parents find that their children have snoring in their sleep, they should pay attention to it, and they should take their children to the hospital for examination in time to clarify the symptomatic treatment of the condition.
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