​Adenoids hypertrophy plasma surgery

The best way to treat enlarged adenoids is to undergo plasma surgery for enlarged adenoids. The surgery for glandular hypertrophy is not difficult. It is just a simple operation with very small risks and postoperative complications. Many friends have certain misunderstandings about plasma surgery for adenoid hypertrophy, so let’s take a look at what these misunderstandings are. Friends who have similar ideas can correct them.

Misconception 1: General anesthesia will affect children’s brain development – ​​Wrong!

There is no clear scientific evidence that general anesthesia will affect brain development, but many parents still ask: Why do we need anesthesia during surgery? The main function of anesthesia is to relieve pain, make the child fall asleep and reduce his psychological fear. Moreover, although anesthetics need to reach a certain concentration in the human body to be effective, the human body will metabolize them quickly. When there is no anesthetic in the body, the nervous system will return to normal. Therefore, anesthesia does not have a big impact on children's growth and development.

Misconception 2: Adenoids are an immune organ and removing them will affect children’s immunity - Wrong!

Adenoids are not the main immune organ of the human body. Before the age of 5, the tonsils play a certain immune role. If the adenoids have formed lesions and caused the child to snore and have a runny nose for a long time, it will actually aggravate the respiratory tract infection, not to mention the so-called immune effect. Therefore, there is no need to worry that adenoids are immune organs and that their removal will have an impact on children.

Misconception 3: The surgery will affect the child’s voice – Wrong!

The adenoids are located at the top of the nasopharynx, and pronunciation is done by the vocal cords. We can see from the picture that the vocal cords are located far below the adenoids, so this surgery actually has little to do with pronunciation, and the surgery will not damage the recurrent laryngeal nerve.

Misconception 4: Surgery will cause bleeding and it will be difficult for children to recover – Wrong!

First of all, before performing adenoids surgery, the doctor will do some routine preoperative examinations, especially coagulation function tests. If the coagulation function is normal, the amount of bleeding will not be too much. The amount of bleeding in endoscopic incision and aspiration surgery is generally around 10 ml to 20 ml, and the amount of bleeding in plasma surgery is very little or even no bleeding.

Misconception 5: Children will feel a lot of pain after surgery - Wrong!

Children will not feel pain after simple adenoids surgery. If tonsil surgery is performed at the same time, there will be a little pain in the wound within one week after the operation, but the pain will gradually subside as the wound recovers.