When do I need to have my child's enlarged adenoids removed?

1. Ear symptoms: Eustachian tube pharyngeal obstruction, will be complicated by secretory otitis media, resulting in hearing loss and self-hearing enhancement, tinnitus, and sometimes can cause purulent otitis media;

2. Nasal symptoms: repeated nasal congestion and runny nose, rhinitis and sinusitis for a long time;

3. Pharyngeal, laryngeal and lower respiratory tract symptoms: secretions irritate the respiratory mucosa, often causing paroxysmus cough and complicated by tracheitis;

4. Long-term breathing with open mouth affects the development of facial bone, and the so-called "adenoidal face" appears;

5. Systemic symptoms: nutritional dysplasia, sluggishness, inattention, night terrors, teeth grinding, enuresis, etc.

If the child is older (over 3 years old) and the symptoms are severe, especially if they have respiratory symptoms for many years and snor, then the possibility of adenoidal hypertrophy will heal on its own is very small, and it is recommended that the earlier the operation, the better. Because conservative treatment is slow to work, and the symptoms themselves have a great impact on the child's development, the continuation of the status quo may affect the child's normal development, bringing irreparable consequences.