Some parents find that their children are very young and look very thin, but they like to snore very much, so at this time, parents should pay attention to the fact that the child is likely to have adenoid hypertrophy.
Parents must not take this matter lightly, because adenoid hypertrophy will become more and more serious if left unchecked, so parents must not ignore it.
Today we will talk about the case of a small patient, after the baby went to kindergarten at the age of 4, because of a cold, nasal discharge, cough and other symptoms did not improve, and even began to breathe and snore when sleeping.
The parents noticed the abnormality of the child and took him to the hospital for examination, and the results showed that 3/4 of the adenoids were hypertrophied, accompanied by allergic rhinitis.
Since then, the child has been struggling with adenoid hypertrophy for almost 1 year, and the parents have actively tried various methods during the treatment.
First of all, the doctor prescribed some medicines to the child, such as Yuping Feng oral liquid, Fenghan cold granules, etc., which were aimed at relieving the child's cold symptoms.
In addition, if the child's spleen and stomach are relatively poor, parents will also give the child drugs such as pediatric spleen pills to improve the function of the spleen and stomach.
However, the good times did not last long, and although the child's condition improved at first, it didn't take long for the adenoids to block again.
Later, because the child often caught colds, the parents gave him special cold medicines for children, such as Shuanghuanglian oral liquid.
However, because in the process of medication, the child has symptoms such as adenoid hypertrophy with sinusitis, parents find that this method of treating the symptoms but not the root cause cannot really solve the problem.
In this process, parents make the mistake of not detecting their child's adenoid hypertrophy early, but allowing the disease to progress to a later stage before taking treatment measures.
This also reminds us that parents need to be vigilant at all times when it comes to their children's health problems and take their children to the hospital for regular check-ups for early detection and treatment.
At the same time, it is also important to avoid giving your child drugs to avoid adverse consequences.
Here, we also urge parents to seek medical attention in time when their children have uncomfortable symptoms, follow the advice of professional doctors, and avoid blind medication, which brings greater threats to their children's health.
Adenoids are located in the nasopharynx and are a type of lymphoid tissue that is often larger in childhood because the immune system is developing at this stage.
However, if the adenoids are excessively enlarged, it can lead to problems such as poor breathing, nasal congestion, hearing loss, etc., which is what we call adenoid hypertrophy.
In general, children with enlarged adenoids may experience symptoms such as snoring during sleep, apnea, and mouth breathing.
Severe adenoid hypertrophy can also lead to chronic hypoxia, poor sleep quality, slow mental development, and difficulty learning Xi children.
Treatment methods for adenoid hypertrophy include medication, surgery, and other treatments such as saline nasal lavage, immunomodulation, etc.
Medication is mainly through the use of steroid medications to reduce inflammation and swelling of the adenoids. Surgical treatment is mainly to solve the problem of adenoid hypertrophy by removing the adenoids.
Other treatments such as saline nasal lavage, immunomodulation, etc., can be used as adjunct treatments to help improve the symptoms of adenoid hypertrophy.
Based on what I learned about my child's condition, I prescribed him a Chinese herbal prescription specifically for the treatment of adenoid hypertrophy and sinusitis. This recipe is a classic Chinese medicine prescription for the treatment of adenoid hypertrophy in children, which has the effect of clearing heat and clearing the body, and can effectively relieve symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose.
At the same time, I also recommend that parents cooperate with acupressure, such as rubbing the Yingxiang acupoint, to relieve children's breathlessness and other problems.
With this prescription, the child's sinusitis and adenoid hypertrophy have improved significantly.
The parents responded that the child's snoring sound had decreased a lot, and then I asked them to continue taking this prescription for 2 courses, and after taking 2 courses of treatment, the child's mouth breathing and snoring basically disappeared.
Eventually, I asked them to stop taking the drug for a month and then come back to a check-up and found that the adenoids had shrunk back to normal levels.
This case fully proves that traditional Chinese medicine has unique advantages and curative effects in the treatment of adenoid hypertrophy in children, which is also the advantage of our traditional Chinese medicine emphasizing "syndrome differentiation and treatment" and prescribing drugs according to the specific situation of each patient.
So why do I say that adenoid hypertrophy has something to do with ""?
There are also some reasons for this, which we can talk about in detail.
Adenoids are the lymphoid tissues of the nasopharynx, and adenoids are located on the posterior wall and top of the nasopharynx. According to TCM theory, adenoid hypertrophy may be related to the dysfunction of the lungs and large intestine. The lungs are open to the nose, so adenoid hypertrophy is related to the respiratory tract, and symptoms such as nasal congestion, nasal sound, and runny nose are prone to occur.
The large intestine and lungs form a surface-inside relationship through the meridians, and the lungs and the large intestine cooperate with each other in function. If the large intestine has symptoms such as heat and lack of qi in the intestines, it will affect the decreased function of the lungs, and then affect the symptoms of adenoid hypertrophy.
In addition, the normal performance of the conduction function of the large intestine is also conducive to the decline of lung qi, so that sputum, nasal discharge, etc. are discharged from the lungs.
Therefore, while treating adenoid hypertrophy, it is also necessary to pay attention to the function of the lungs and large intestine.
In terms of diet, we should eat less greasy, frozen and cold food to avoid irritation of the respiratory tract; in terms of life Xi habits, strengthen exercise, improve life habits, and improve Xi habits, which will help improve the decline of lung qi and the conduction function of the large intestine.
I'm a pediatrician, Jin Yujing, and that's all I'm going to talk about today.