Mom has been insomnia lately: big snoring, small snoring, "you sing me on the stage", and let people sleep?
"Think about it": Forget it, the big and small ones are sleeping fragrantly, and they didn't sleep well if they didn't sleep well.
Stop, such "self-touching" is dangerous!
If your baby also sleeps frequently and snores, be careful, it may be adenoidal hypertrophy.
What is adenoid hypertrophy?
Quick questions and answers, understand adenoidal hypertrophy.
1. Where are the adenoids?
Adenoids are orange-petal-like "small flesh bumps" located in the nasopharynx (between the nose and oropharynx).
2. Why didn't I know it before?
The adenoids before the age of 3 are weak and can be ignored, and many parents do not realize its presence.
Around the age of 3, the adenoids grow rapidly, enter the plateau stage around the age of 6, gradually atrophy around the age of 10, and at the age of 13 to 14, most of the baby's adenoids basically return to normal size.
3. What is the use of adenoids?
It is an important immune organ that expands to resist the virus that invades the respiratory tract, drives away the virus and then retracts back to its original state.
4. What is adenoid hypertrophy?
If the germs invade too frequently, the adenoids will be flattened by swelling and contraction, and the small flesh lumps will become a fat lump, which is adenoidal hypertrophy.
If these situations are repeated, it is easy to stimulate the adenoids, making it from small slim to dead fat:
Acute, chronic inflammation of the nasopharynx.
Acute chronic inflammation of the nasal cavity and sinuses.
Upper respiratory tract infections caused by various viruses and bacteria.
Various acute infectious diseases.
Acute, chronic tonsillitis.
5. How do I find that the adenoids are hypertrophy?
After adenoidal hypertrophy, it is difficult to see with the naked eye, and a nasal mirror or X-ray is done to confirm the diagnosis.
However, it is difficult to see the naked eye≠ no symptoms, remove special reasons such as colds and nasal congestion, if there are the following conditions, go to the hospital quickly:
ObservationAle Edition ——
Snoring ≥ 3 nights a week.
There was pause in breathing while sleeping, purring and sudden apnea ≥ 10 seconds.
Open your mouth to breathe or wake up repeatedly.
Some mothers said that it seems to have these symptoms, but they are not very obvious, and purring and apnea are good to observe, and it is not easy to judge whether to breathe with your mouth or your nose.
Then wait until the baby is asleep and do a little "experiment"
Hands-on version ——
Close your baby's lips and try to "close the seam" + hold for 3 minutes. Continuing to sleep = breathing through your nose; struggling or waking up = breathing with your mouth.
Take a small mirror/small plastic sheet in the middle of your baby's mouth and nose, look at the location of the fog, closer to the mouth = breathe with the mouth, closer to the nose = breathe with the nose.
Take small slips of paper/cloth strips and other things, try to be as close as possible to your baby's mouth and nose, and flutter in front of your mouth = breathe with your mouth, and flutter in front of your nose = breathe with your nose.
6. What are the dangers of adenoidal hypertrophy?
One-sentence version: Babies will become ugly, stupid, tall, sick at every turn.
Ugly: Breathing with the mouth for a long time will affect the development of the face and teeth, and grow into an adenoidal face.
Stupidity: not being able to inhale enough oxygen affects brain development.
Not high: poor sleep quality, affecting growth hormone secretion.
Sick at every turn: nasal discharge, baby cough easily, tracheitis, otitis media, rhinitis and other diseases.
I don't know what the situation of your baby is after reading it? Regarding the question of whether to operate after diagnosis, we will leave it for the next time.