Adenoid hypertrophy, as a common child health problem, has affected countless families. During the winter vacation, many parents take their children to the hospital for examination and treatment of adenoid hypertrophy. Jinan TV station made relevant reports on "adenoid hypertrophy in children". The reporter interviewed Tian Jiajun, director of the Department of Pediatric Entolaryngology of Shandong Provincial ENT Hospital, and popularized the relevant knowledge of the disease to parents.
Hazards of adenoid hypertrophy
Adenoid hypertrophy is a common and frequent illness in children, with common symptoms including nasal congestion, sleep snoring, and open-mouth breathing, and in severe cases sleep apnea. When the condition lasts longer, it may also induce a series of complications.
Common serious clinical complications include the following: long-term sleep snoring, breath holding, will lead to lack of oxygen in children, affecting the child's intellectual and physical development; long-term open breathing affects the development of children's facial bones, resulting in narrow maxilla, narrowing of hard palate arches, tooth protrusions, uneven dentition, poor bite, upturned upper lip, lower lip hanging, lip thickness, that is, the formation of the so-called "adenoidal face". In addition, adenoidal hypertrophy may also cause rhinitis and sinusitis in the nostrils after enlargement, and secretory otitis media may occur when blocking the Eustachian tube pharynx.
How to tell if your child has adenoidal hypertrophy
How can parents tell if a child has adenoid hypertrophy? Director Tian Jiajun provided parents with the following clinical symptoms as a reference.
If the child repeatedly runs nose, nasal congestion, according to the cold treatment for a period of time, the condition does not improve significantly, while the child snoring, breathing with the mouth open, sleeping unstable, frequent turning over, teeth grinding, enuresis, etc., the child should be highly suspected that the child may have adenoidal hypertrophy.
How adenoid hypertrophy is treated
Treatment of adenoid hypertrophy requires a combination of considerations, not surgery, and some children can be cured with conservative medications. Even if the child must undergo surgery, parents do not need to worry too much. With the development of modern medicine, anesthesia technology has made great progress, and general anesthesia has become very safe.
Nowadays, most hospitals use "nasal endoscopic hypothermia plasma ablation" for surgery. In the case of almost no bleeding, the adenoids are removed cleanly, no remains are left, and the postoperative pain response is mild, which basically does not affect the child's daily activities such as eating and playing.
Director Tian Jiajun reminded parents that the temperature changes greatly in the spring in the north, which can easily lead to children's colds and fevers, and repeated inflammation of the upper respiratory tract may further lead to adenoid hyperplasia and hypertrophy. Primary and secondary schools around the world have opened one after another, while caring for children's studies, don't forget to remind children to add clothes in time to prevent cold and warmth and avoid colds.
Department Profile
Pediatric Otolaryngology
The Department of Pediatric ENT of Shandong ENT Hospital focuses on the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of ENT diseases in children under 14 years old (including 14 years old). At present, there are 30 open beds in the Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, and there are 5 existing physicians, including 2 deputy chief physicians, 1 attending physician, 2 doctoral degrees and 3 master's degrees.
Clinical work:
The scope of disease diagnosis and treatment in the department: the main treatment includes: sleep breathing disease caused by enlargement of the tonsils of the tonsils, acute and chronic tonsillitis, laryngeal papilloma, nail and tongue cysts, epiglosste cysts, head and neck hemangioma lymphangioma, gill fissure cysts, children's trachea and esophageal foreign bodies. Since 2012, our department has innovatively carried out representative characteristic technologies--- supporting the chemical cauterization + suture closure of the fistula in the piriform fossa under the laryngoscopic piriformis, and has carried out more than 150 cases so far, and the success rate of this technology is at the leading level in the world and at home.
The department's current characteristic diagnosis and treatment techniques include: piriform fossa fistula intracorpus fistula suturation; comprehensive treatment of angiosmus lymphatic vessel malformations in children's head, neck and throat; comprehensive treatment of benign tumors common in children such as laryngeal papilloma; and sleep breath monitoring in children.
Expert Profiles
Tian Jiajun
Director of pediatric otolaryngology, deputy chief physician, doctor of medicine
Visiting Scholar at the Royal London Hospital and University College London Hospital
Youth member of the Thyroid Disease Committee of the Chinese Medical Promotion Association
Scope of diagnosis and treatment: comprehensive treatment of pediatric snoring, diagnosis and treatment of tonsil and adenoid diseases, minimally invasive treatment of congenital piriformous fossa, treatment of pediatric tracheoesophageal foreign bodies, treatment of hemangiomas and lymphangiomas of the throat and neck in children, comprehensive treatment of papillomas of the throat, surgical treatment of nail and tongue cysts and epiglosste cysts