What are the symptoms of vocal nodule

Update Date: 2023-11-30 Source: Network

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Vocal nodule, also known as singer's nodule or teacher's nodule, is a special type of chronic laryngitis, which is formed by inflammatory lesions. The main clinical symptom was hoarseness. Clinical diagnosis can be made by laryngoscopy. The treatment includes proper vocal cord rest, correct phonation method and surgical treatment. What are the symptoms of vocal nodule? Let's talk about it

What are the symptoms of vocal nodule

Most of the patients with vocal nodules are over vocal users, and both children and adults can have the disease. In children, boys are more common than girls, but tend to disappear in adolescence; In adult cases, the incidence rate of female is high, but male is rare. Patients over 50 years old are more rare.

The main symptom was 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 will also appear. Because of hoarseness, actors can't sing or teachers can't give lectures. The degree of hoarseness is related to the size and location of vocal nodules.

matters needing attention

Vocal cord rest: early vocal cord nodules, after appropriate vocal cord rest, often small or disappear. Children's vocal nodules may also disappear spontaneously during puberty. Even though the larger summary can not disappear, the sound can be improved. If the vocal cord has been resting for 2-3 weeks, and the nodule is still not significantly smaller, other treatment measures should be taken, because the vocal cord muscle is not active for a long time, it is not conducive to phonation.