Symptoms of adenoid hyperplasia?

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Adenoids, also known as pharyngeal tonsils or proliferators, are located at the top of the nasopharynx and the posterior pharyngeal wall. They are lymphoid tissues with orange petals on the surface. Adenoids, like tonsils, gradually grow up with age after birth. The period of proliferation is the most vigorous at the age of 4-6, and gradually atrophy after puberty. Let's share my experience with you.

Symptoms of adenoid hyperplasia?

In the normal physiological growth period, most children will not have the symptoms of respiratory tract obstruction, but when the adenoid tissue dysplasia, blocking the upper respiratory tract, there will be nasal congestion, mouth breathing symptoms, especially at night aggravation, sleep snoring, sleep restlessness, children often turn over from time to time, supine more obvious.

Severe can appear apnea, that is, children have a short period of apnea, or even wake up, sleep after changing the sleeping position, so that the quality of sleep, at the same time due to airway stenosis, so that the lack of oxygen saturation in the blood, the brain is in a state of chronic persistent hypoxia, the child is faint during the day, poor spirit, memory loss, academic performance decline.

Long term nasal obstruction, poor breathing, but also affect the heart and lung function, serious cases can cause pulmonary heart disease, myocardial damage, and even right ventricular heart failure. Due to nasal obstruction and poor breathing, long-term mouth opening breathing can also affect the development of maxillofacial bones and form a special face, namely the so-called "adenoid face", which is characterized by upper lip warping, upper teeth protruding, higher palate and dull expression.

matters needing attention

Children over 4 years old can be surgically removed. But the operation is easy to damage the soft palate and cause soft palate paralysis, or cause the occlusion of the oropharyngeal tube and other otitis media, may also damage the pharyngeal wall, resulting in excessive scars and pharyngeal dryness, and some children can't cooperate well, so they can't take medicine. Food therapy is the safest conservative treatment.