If your child is prone to frequent colds and otitis, you should seek advice from an ENT doctor. It is possible that your baby has grown nasopharyngeal tonsils, which is the main reason for his poor health. You will not be able to detect adenoids yourself, for this you need a special SLR mirror.

Adenoid vegetations often disturb children and adolescents under 15 years of age. Today, there is a tendency to detect this disease in children aged 1 year. The main symptoms of adenoids in children is breathing with the mouth, especially at night, a protracted runny nose, hard to treat. In some cases, the rhinitis may not be at all, but with nasal breathing difficult.

Health problems caused by adenoids Adenoids can threaten hearing impairment. The fact is that due to the auditory tube, the difference between atmospheric pressure and pressure in the cavity of the middle ear. When the nasopharyngeal tonsil increases, it overlaps the mouth of the Eustachian tube and the passage of air into the middle ear becomes difficult. The mobility of the tympanic membrane decreases, which can not but affect the auditory sensations.

Due to the fact that the child can not breathe freely, he is prone to frequent colds. In a normal state, the mucous membrane of the nose and paranasal sinuses develops a special mucus that is capable of clearing of the nasal cavity from viruses, bacteria and other pathogenic factors. However, adenoids in children interfere with the flow of air and make it difficult to drain mucus, resulting in a favorable environment in the nasal cavity for the onset of inflammatory diseases and for the development of infection.

In addition, adenoids that obstruct the breathing of the nose are a favorable environment for the attack of viruses and bacteria. Nasopharyngeal tonsils are in a state of chronic inflammation and are the source of inflammatory diseases and chronic infections. It is there that "viruses and microbes get a permanent registration", which are able to spread freely throughout the body. Chronic inflammation of the nasopharyngeal tonsils was called adenoiditis.

It is known that the organism of the child, with difficulty in nasal breathing, receives less than 20% of oxygen. The brain of the child because of this, feels a constant lack of oxygen, which can not but affect his health and school performance.

In children, adenoids do not properly form the bones of the facial skeleton. And this is fraught with a distortion of speech. A kid, having difficulty with nasal breathing, constantly speaks in the nose and does not pronounce individual letters. Often parents do not pay attention to the diction of the child, believing that he will grow up and the pronunciation will improve by itself. Unfortunately, without the doctor's intervention this will not happen.

Normal work of the middle ear is disturbed by adenoid outgrowths that cover the mouth of the auditory tube. In this case, the child will often have otitis, since this condition creates favorable conditions for the development of infection in the middle ear.

Adenoids in children are fraught with laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, tracheitis and other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract. Chronic inflammation of adenoid tissue develops during its growth, which can not but lead to the constant production of mucus or even pus in the nasal sinuses. When the nasal cavity is filled with pus, it begins to flow into the underlying spaces of the respiratory system, causing numerous inflammatory processes - bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchi), pharyngitis (inflammation of the pharynx), tracheitis (inflammation of the trachea) and laryngitis (inflammation of the larynx).

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