Adenoids - a pathological proliferation (hypertrophy) of the nasopharyngeal tonsil, with the triggered degree of which the patient's nasal breathing is disrupted, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net Most adenoids develop in children (from 2-3 years to 6-8). With age, the disease is less common, since the adenoid tissue ceases to be prone to hypertrophy, as in childhood. Adenoids are also found in adults, but, as a rule, they are acquired in childhood.

Adenoids at the late stage overlap the nasal passages, interfering with nasal breathing According to statistics, 10-12% of children have a pathological proliferation of adenoid tissue of one degree or another. Often, the disease is first detected at a late stage of the process, because at the initial stages they have a low-symptom course and do not pay attention to either the child or his parents. To help detect adenoids at an early stage, in the absence of symptoms can only preventive examination by a doctor.

3 degree of adenoids - this is the last stage of their proliferation, when hypertrophic lymphoid tissue almost completely blocks the nasal passages. This condition is fraught with a number of dangerous complications, including irreversible.

In a number of cases, with adenoids of grade 3, treatment without surgery is possible, and in some patients, even at the initial stage of the disease, with sustained hearing loss, surgery may be required.

Causes of hypertrophy of the nasopharyngeal tonsil Causes of hypertrophy of the nasopharyngeal tonsil often include common colds, childhood infections, allergies, and hereditary predisposition. So, if one or both parents had adenoids in their childhood, the probability of their appearance in a child is 70%.

The reason is also the children's age - children, because of the underdevelopment of the immune system, are prone to colds, and the tissues of their body with inflammation, especially prolonged, easily hypertrophy. Adenoid overgrowths create even more prerequisites for infection to enter the respiratory tract, and infectious inflammation promotes further growth of adenoid vegetations - a vicious circle.

Risk factors include living in ecologically unfavorable areas, prolonged stay in poorly ventilated and dusty (as well as excessively clean, washed out with a large number of household chemicals), inadequate nutrition.

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