When should you start getting worried? - Recognise syptoms early.

When should you start getting worried?

As we have already found out, all healthy children have adenoids, but vigilance should be exercised if you notice any of the following symptoms or one of them:

Child / baby sleeping with open mouth.

There may be several reasons for this condition, but enlarged adenoids is one of them! You can perform a simple test yourself: passively cover the child's mouth and hold a mirror or cotton wool to the nose. If nasal breathing is not disturbed, then the mirror will fog up, and the cotton wool will oscillate. This simple maneuver will help you understand whether the child has a nasal breathing issue.

A child's mouth is constantly open, not only during sleep.

With the further development of the disease, due to the constantly open mouth, a child can experience deformation of the facial skeleton, which persists for life. There is even such a concept as the 'adenoid face,' characterized by an elongated and puffy appearance, and it can lead to malocclusion.

A child is often sleepy during the daytime, distracted, inattentive.

Violation of nasal breathing, which almost always occurs with adenoid hypertrophy, leads to a state of chronic hypoxia—an insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain tissue. This can cause the child to tire more quickly, lose concentration and attention, and lag in mental development.

Nasality (rhinolalia) - a change in the timbre of the voice and distorted pronunciation of sounds.

Parents usually describe this complaint as 'The child speaks through the nose.' And here, too, everything is clear: the adenoids disrupt the airflow in the nasal cavity and nasopharynx, resulting in a specific nasal acoustic effect, or nasality.

Snoring

Snoring is not a harmless feature of a child, causing discomfort to parents. First, snoring harms the child themselves! Studies show that snoring in children is associated with an increased chance of allergic diseases, deterioration in cognitive functions, and even worse behavior and mood.

Pauses in breathing during sleep (apnoea)

The consequences of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome for the child are still the same: due to inadequate night sleep, children begin to lag in physical and mental development.

Ineffectiveness of 1-2 courses of conventional treatment

As a rule, this is associated with a change in the structure of the adenoid lymphoid tissue itself due to a long-term inflammatory process.

What are the symptoms you see in your children?