Introduction: On the problem of children's adenoidal hypertrophy, many parents are often not very clear, when they find that their children have nasal congestion, sleep and snoring, they just think that the child has a simple cold or rhinitis and other problems. However, these frequent symptoms are fundamentally due to the effects of adenoidal hypertrophy, and severe children may also affect the quality of sleep at night, inducing various respiratory diseases.
Only when you take your child to an ear, nose and throat examination can you see the specific situation, and many doctors will recommend surgical resection for the child when the symptoms are more obvious and have seriously affected the child's normal physiological health. But many parents will also worry about the risks, dear mothers, will you choose surgical removal or conservative treatment?
Adenoid hypertrophy in children is a very common tissue hyperplasia in children's groups, which is a physiological problem that accompanies the development and growth of children, and is not the kind of pathological condition that parents think. Hypertrophy of the adenoids begins to grow and develop at 6 months of age, is greatest at the age of 6 or 7, and then begins to gradually decline to normal levels around the age of 10.
Therefore, normally, if the hyperplasia problem of the adenoid does not particularly affect the child's daily life, we do not deal with it until the child is 10 years old and it will slowly return to normal. But more often than not, children are susceptible to various effects of adenoidal hypertrophy and even many complications, such as:
1. Affecting breathing leads to hypoxia
The most obvious problem of adenoidal hypertrophy for children is difficulty breathing, nasal congestion, snoring, waking up in the middle of the night are very common symptoms, excessive proliferation of adenoids affects the child's normal respiratory system. Difficulty breathing is easy to make the child's body often insufficient oxygen supply, which will affect the normal development of the child's body.
2. Complicated by various ENT inflammations
The adenoids grow at the junction of the internal passages of the child's ear, nose and throat, so there is a certain blockage effect on these organs, resulting in the obstruction of their functional development. At the same time, adenoid hypertrophy may also bring inflammation of these organ tissues, resulting in long-term and frequent problems such as rhinitis, pharyngitis, and otitis media.
3. Affect the development of children's faces
Nasal congestion problems caused by adenoids, snoring, etc. will indirectly affect the growth of facial bones during the growth of children, such as elongation of jaws, uneven growth of teeth, etc., these characteristics are very typical "adenoidal face". In the long run, the child's facial development will be affected and ugly, and it is difficult to change for life.
The problem of hypertrophy that is not serious can be avoided through daily care to avoid its impact on the child, but the serious problem of adenoidal hypertrophy we still need to give timely treatment, otherwise it will affect the child's physical health, and the means of treatment are also as we understand: conservative drug suppression treatment and surgical resection.
1. Drug-based treatment
Adenoidal hyperplasia is affected by hormone levels in the body, and inhibition therapy is also the use of some corresponding hormonal drugs, with antiallergic drugs to control its growth. The drug itself has certain side effects, so the child will also have many side effects after taking the drug, so it will be more suitable for the situation where the hypertrophy is not serious and the interval treatment is carried out at the time of the onset of the disease.
2. Surgical resection
It is to remove the hyperplasia part through surgery to directly solve the root problem, and for children with urgent treatment needs, surgical treatment can quickly solve the problem. But this is not a one-time effect, because the adenoids are a process of continuous growth, and it is also possible to continue to grow after excision, and subsequent proliferation to a certain extent the problem will still recur.
Important: Adenoid hypertrophy in children is a physiological hyperplasia problem that slowly recedes to normal levels as they age. However, severe adenoidal hypertrophy can lead to various complications, difficulty breathing and even affect the development of the child's face. Drug treatment and surgical resection have their own advantages and disadvantages, and parents still have to consider the actual situation.
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