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Sorry by mistake, yes she is 3.5 years old and it is her first school year. We also noticed that she keeps mouth open during sleep. Is this related?
29 أبريل 2015
If infections recur, this tissue enlarges (hypertrophy) and so causes obstruction of the upper
airways. So a child with a hypertrophic adenoid often have difficulty breathing through their nose, and compensates by mouth breathing. This may interfere with eating because these children have to stop chewing to catch their breath after swallowing.
Another complication is a continuous runny nose. This is because the enlarged adenoid tissue prevents the mucus (normally produced in the nasal cavity and goes backwards to be swallowed) from exiting the back part of the nasal cavity. When an adenoid is infected, it compresses the eustachian tube (a thin tube that functions in can also impair draining fluids from the ear), so fluids will build up behind the eardrum (otitis media) or there will be dysfunction of the eustachian tube.
An enlarged adenoid also causes upper airway obstruction in children, resulting in loud snoring. In addition, a child with an enlarged symptoms may continuously suffer from sinus symptoms.
The mainstay of treatment is a trial of oral anti-histamine plus intra-nasal steroids for a few months; should these medications fail to produce noticeable improvement, surgical intervention may have to be considered.
Regarding a supplement to boos immunity, some ear-nose-throat and immunology specialists recommend the use of bacterial extracts, a long-term treatment that may reduce the frequency of upper airway infections in children with enlarged adenoids and allergic tendencies, and there is a good number of scientific studies to support the use of such products.
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