Is the baby sick?

Don't look at the sound of some babies snoring while sleeping, but the harm is indeed considerable. So, is the baby snoring sick? Please see below.

Snoring is also called snoring. Under normal circumstances, young children often make a slight clicking sound when they sleep. However, continuous loud snoring is abnormal and should be considered as a disease, the most common of which is proliferative hypertrophy.

Proliferation body, also called adenoid, is a large piece of lymph tissue located on the back wall of the nasopharyngeal cavity behind the nasal cavity. Proliferators develop rapidly in early childhood, and proliferate most vigorously at the age of 3-6 years, and gradually shrink in adolescence. Therefore, proliferative hypertrophy is a unique pathology in childhood. Normal-sized proliferators have no effect on children. If proliferators are too hypertrophy, it will affect their physical and mental health.

Changes in temperature, malnutrition, decreased resistance, or colds, tonsillitis, rhinitis, and sinusitis can cause proliferative hypertrophy. The proliferative body is too hypertrophied and blocked the nostrils. Not only the drainage of nasal secretions is blocked, but also the air in and out of the nasal cavity is blocked. After the child falls asleep, the air exhaled from the trachea is forced to exhale from the mouth. As the whole body muscles relax during sleep, the tongue also falls loosely into the pharyngeal cavity, making the pharyngeal cavity narrow and not clear. At this time, the gas hits the base of the tongue and the hanging tissues from time to time, making bursts of noise with breathing. Young children’s long-term snoring, holding their breath, and mouth breathing will affect the development of the body and brain, causing them to decline in intelligence, slow their reactions, and sluggish expression. On their appearance, the nasolabial folds disappear, the upper lip becomes thick and upturned, the upper incisor is protruding and the lower jaw is exposed Drooping bones, high arches of the hard palate, etc., form a special "proliferative face". Proliferative hypertrophy can also hinder the movement of eustachian tube cartilage, prone to middle ear effusion, causing otitis media and conductive deafness. Toddlers often open their mouths and breathe during sleep and are not in a smooth state. They cannot get enough rest at night. They have poor energy during the day, poor appetite, and insufficient intake of food calories. This can also lead to growth and development retardation, and their height and weight are lower than normal for the same age. Child, the body resistance is reduced. Therefore, such children are not only susceptible to respiratory infections, but also susceptible to chicken breasts, pectus excavatum, and even pulmonary heart disease. Of course, snoring in young children may also be caused by excessive hypertrophy of the tonsils in the pharynx, resulting in partial congestion of the pharyngeal cavity.

Whether it is proliferative hypertrophy or excessive tonsil hypertrophy, or both coexist, you should go to the hospital for ENT.

Sleeping and snoring can cause suffocation

Baby snoring is not a trivial matter. Parents should pay attention to the baby snoring. Why? Please see below.

1. It's not a trivial matter that the child sleeps and snores

Someone may ask, is snoring also a disease? Some scholars believe that sudden child death is related to sleep apnea syndrome, especially when a cold causes acute tonsillitis and pharyngitis, which may cause respiratory obstruction and suffocation.

See how sound the child sleeps and snoring! Wrong, this is not a good thing, because healthy children do not snore, which may be a manifestation of sleep apnea syndrome.

2. The respiratory tract becomes narrow and the snoring sound is loud

During sleep, the upper airway narrows due to some reasons. At this time, the resistance generated by the respiratory airflow will increase, which will cause the bronchial mucosa and mucus, as well as the nostrils, soft palate, and tongue base, which will be heard by people next to you. There was a loud snoring sound.

3. It may affect the "growth taller"

There is a more serious consequence of children's snoring: they may suffer from sleep apnea syndrome. Medical investigations have found that almost every 5 snoring patients have sleep apnea syndrome, and there is a relationship between the two.

The harm of this disease can be said to affect the whole life, it will affect the growth and development of the child, so that your child will not grow tall. Because its symptoms are apnea during sleep lasting for more than 10 seconds, and the number of apneas in a night exceeds more than 30 times. Ruan Yan said that growth hormone in the human body is secreted during deep sleep. Light sleep or repeated short-term awakening caused by sleep apnea syndrome will inevitably inhibit the secretion of growth hormone.

What to do if the baby snores

Baby screaming, what should moms do?

1. Balance the baby's diet, and the baby should add supplementary food in time to increase the diversity of food and feed rationally.

2. To help babies strengthen their physical fitness and reduce the chance of upper respiratory tract infections. For example, get more exposure to the outdoor sunshine and breathe fresh air; do crawling games to make your baby stronger.

3. Help the baby clean up the secretions such as nasal mucus in time and keep the nose relatively unobstructed.

4. If the baby is sleeping on his back and snoring, try to change the sleeping position for the baby. The head can also be properly raised with a baby pillow.

5. If the symptoms of snoring are severe, consult a doctor in time for treatment. If adenoid hypertrophy is severe, surgery can also be chosen.

Baby snoring is not a trivial matter, parents should pay attention to the baby's sleep snoring, find out the reason and treat it in time.