The snoring of the 9-year-old child also affects the attention, and it turns out that he has an ear, nose and throat disease

Modern Express News (correspondent Su Xuan, reporter Zhuang Jianxiang) Xiao Li in Yangzhou has been sleeping and snoring in recent years, which has also affected the attention of the class, and it turned out that he had an ear, nose and throat disease such as adenoid hypertrophy. The Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital in Yangzhou had minimally invasive excisions of his tonsils and adenoids, curing him of snoring. It is reported that the number of small children who have recently gone to the hospital's entolaryngology department to see sleeping and snoring has increased significantly, an increase of 60% or 70% over usual.

Xiao Li is 9 years old and has been sleeping and snoring for the past two or three years. "In fact, when I was a child, I found that he snored occasionally when he slept, but he never paid attention to it, and in the past two years, the child's snoring became louder and louder, and his attention in class was not concentrated." The mother, Ms. Chang, took her son to the Department of Otolaryngology of Subei People's Hospital for examination, and the doctor found that Xiao Li's bilateral tonsils were hypertrophy of the third degree, and the adenoids were hypertrophy, accompanied by recurrent tonsillitis. Because symptoms such as sleep, breathing, and even decreased concentration have been severely affected, treatment must be performed, and doctors recommend surgery to remove the tonsils and adenoids.

△ The doctor is inquiring about Xiao Li's recovery, and the correspondent provides a picture

"At first, we were hesitant, afraid that the child's surgery would not be good for development, but we did not expect that the child's operation was minimally invasive and the comfort level was very high." Ms. Chang said that the symptoms of the child's sleeping and snoring after the operation have been completely alleviated. Sun Haiyong, attending physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, introduced that the doctor used the endoscope to perform plasma tonsil and adenoid ablation and resection for Xiao Li, the operation time was short, and there was almost no bleeding during the operation, "you can electrocoagulation while electrocoagulation, while stopping the bleeding, the operation can ensure that the wound is almost bloodless or bleeding is particularly small, and there is no need for sutures after the operation, and the comfort and pain of the postoperative patients will be much better than traditional surgery." "

After the postoperative review, Xiao Li's symptoms of sleeping and snoring were completely alleviated, and the situation of decreased concentration was significantly improved. Like Xiao Li, due to ENT diseases such as tonsils and adenoid hypertrophy, there are more small patients who have been treated before.

The Modern Express reporter learned that after the winter vacation, there was a small peak in ENT diseases such as tonsils and adenoid hypertrophy received in the outpatient clinic of the hospital. Sun Haiyong said that every doctor in the outpatient clinic can receive more than a dozen children with similar diseases every day, an increase of 60% to 70% compared with usual after winter vacation. The hospital's Department of OTOL operates on about 20 units a day, more than half of which are ENT diseases in children.

Physiological hypertrophy of the adenoids does not require treatment, and the enlarged adenoids in normal children will gradually atrophy and degenerate after the age of 10 years, but if pathological symptoms such as Xiao Li have developed, treatment must be carried out. In the case of a weak child, the respiratory tract is easily invaded by pathogens and repeatedly infected, resulting in hypertrophy of adenoids and tonsils.

Sun Haiyong reminds parents that once they find that their children have been sleeping for a long time, snoring and breathing with their mouths open, they must be vigilant. It will affect the child's blood oxygen situation, and low blood oxygen will affect growth and development, and even affect intelligence. A few days ago, Sun Haiyong received a 10-year-old boy who had been sleeping and snoring and breathing with his mouth open for five or six years, "As soon as I arrived at the clinic, I saw that the child was an adenoidal face, the upper incisors were obvious, and the hard palate of the maxilla was arched. The doctor said that the child appeared at the age of three or four years old to open his mouth to breathe, sleep and snoring symptoms, but parents did not pay attention to it, until they felt that the child had a problem with his teeth to the dentist, and was reminded by the dentist to know that the child's oral problem was because of adenoidal hypertrophy. The treatment is actually late, and there is already a certain impact on the child's development.

Doctors once again remind that pediatric snoring is a common disease in children, in addition to affecting the child's facial development, it will also lead to learning disabilities, backward growth and development, neurocognitive damage, endocrine metabolic disorders, and even hypertension and pulmonary hypertension and increase the risk of cardiovascular events in adulthood, etc. Should be diagnosed and treated early.