Vocal cord polyp symptoms?

summary

Vocal cord polyp is a benign proliferative lesion in the superficial lamina propria of vocal cord, and it is also a special type of chronic laryngitis. The main clinical symptom was hoarseness. Clinical diagnosis can be made by laryngoscopy. The main treatment is surgical resection. If the patient is still exposed to excessive use of voice, improper use of voice, smoking and other risk factors after treatment, vocal cord polyps may appear again. We should continue to avoid and treat the possible pathogenic factors after operation. Vocal cord polyp symptoms? Let's talk about it

Vocal cord polyp symptoms?

The degree of hoarseness is related to the size and location of vocal cord polyps. Usually, hoarseness is more severe in patients with large polyps, and vice versa. When polyps grow on the free edge of vocal cord, hoarseness is obvious. When polyps grow on the upper surface of vocal cord, they have little effect on phonation. The patients with polyps in the subglottic cavity often have cough. Large polyps located between the two vocal cords, can completely lose voice, or even block the respiratory tract, leading to dyspnea and wheezing.

For different degrees of hoarseness. In the early stage, the voice was light, rough or normal, mainly because of fatigue, frequent use of voice, sometimes good or bad, intermittent hoarseness; Hoarseness often occurs at the time of high pitch, accompanied by voice delay and timbre change; Some patients may not have obvious voice changes in daily conversation, but they may have obvious performance such as narrow range and limited voice when singing.

The disease continues to develop, hoarseness aggravation, can develop from intermittent to persistent, and in the low voice can also appear. The voice is not stable when speaking aloud, which makes the patients use more force to pronounce, hoping to improve the effect of pronouncing, but excessive force to pronounce increases the adverse stimulation to the throat. Because of hoarseness, actors can't sing or teachers can't give lectures. Detailed history, patients often have too strong voice.

matters needing attention

Vocal cord rest, vocal training, mainly for the treatment of vocal nodules, vocal polyps also have a certain role. In addition, smoking, drinking and eating spicy and irritant food should be restricted, coffee, strong tea and other pathogenic factors such as exposure to irritant gas and dust should be avoided.