Nose adenoids surgery

Enlarged adenoids in the nose are also quite common in our daily life. The adenoids are located at the top of the rhinitis. They belong to a lymphatic tissue. If inflammation occurs in daily life, it will easily lead to hypertrophy of the adenoids. This situation is quite harmful. Generally speaking, it is easy to cause snoring. In addition, severe cases can also cause shortness of breath. For some children, this situation will also affect their development.

Adenoids enlargement surgery

Adenoids, also called pharyngeal tonsils or adenoids, are located at the top of the nasopharynx and the posterior wall of the pharynx. They belong to lymphoid tissue and have an orange-segment-like surface. Like tonsils, adenoids gradually grow larger with age after birth. They proliferate most rapidly between the ages of 2 and 6 and gradually shrink after the age of 10. Adenoids hypertrophy is a pathological proliferation of the adenoids due to repeated stimulation of inflammation, which causes symptoms such as nasal congestion and mouth breathing, especially at night, and causes snoring and restless sleep. Children often turn over from time to time, which is more obvious when lying on their backs. In severe cases, sleep apnea may occur. This disease is most common in children and is often associated with chronic tonsillitis and tonsil hypertrophy.

If conservative treatment is ineffective, adenoids should be removed surgically as soon as possible. The surgery is often performed together with tonsillectomy. If the tonsils are not large and rarely inflamed, adenoidectomy can be performed alone.

Main hazards

1. It is easy to form "adenoid face"

Since children's nasopharynx is relatively narrow, when the adenoids are enlarged, they have to breathe through their mouths due to nasal congestion that affects their breathing. Long-term mouth breathing, the airflow impacting the hard palate will cause the hard palate to deform and arch. Over time, the face will develop out of shape, with a short, thick and upturned upper lip, drooping mandible, disappearance of the nasolabial groove, a high and arched hard palate, uneven teeth, protruding upper incisors, poor bite, and a flat and curved nasal septum. The facial muscles are not easy to move and lack expression, and they look like Zhu Bajie or the ugly duckling. Medically, this is called "adenoid facies."

2. Susceptible to tracheitis

Enlarged adenoids in children can cause nasal congestion, causing the child's nasal mucus to flow back into the pharynx, irritating the lower respiratory tract mucosa, often causing bouts of coughing, and making the child more susceptible to bronchitis.

3. It is easy to cause children to be depressed and slow to react

If children breathe through their mouths and have blocked noses for a long time, it is easy to cause ischemia and hypoxia in the head, resulting in mental depression, headache, dizziness, memory loss, slow reaction, etc.

4. Affect children's growth and development

Since children need a lot of oxygen to develop, snoring will cause children to suffer from severe hypoxia during sleep, which will directly lead to insufficient oxygen supply for brain development and cause a decrease in the secretion of growth hormone. This will not only affect the child's height, but also reduce the body's resistance, and will also affect the child's future intelligence.