According to foreign statistics, approximately 10% children with snoring symptoms. Chinese scholars on Chinese children in 8 cities 28,424 2~12sui epidemiological investigation on sleeping status shows: incidence of sleep frequent snoring in children of 5.7%. But many parents think that children sleep snoring, is slept.
In fact, this is a sick, medically known as obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome in children, referred to as snoring in children. Snore in addition to affect a child\'s job, the daily rest, growth and intellectual development of children will have some impact.
Snoring in children may cause harm
1. the child growth
Sleep quality once the decline will certainly decrease the release of growth hormone, bone development affecting children.
2. intellectual development lag behind
Germany Hannover medical school researchers found that children snore will directly affect their school performance. They chose 1144, 8~10sui children in school, children snore regularly found in natural subjects such as arithmetic, spelling, and on the number of people who get low marks to 3~4 times greater than never snoring children.
3. children\'s snoring may affect the face
Children because of nasopharynx obstruction at snoring, mouth breathing, upper and lower teeth occlude properly, over time, can lead to development of facial deformity, causing micrognathia, uneven, long maxillary dentition \"adenoid decent capacity\".
4. causes of exudative otitis media
Adenoid hypertrophy of hyperplasia if blocked Eustachian tube of pharyngeal opening of nasopharyngeal lateral wall, you can cause exudative otitis media occurred ear sense of tightness, tinnitus, hearing loss and other symptoms if blocked nasal, nasal secretion drainage barriers, will be complicated by sinusitis.
Parents usually have to observe
Important symptoms of sleep apnea snoring is presenting parents with children. Whether parents should watch their children sleep, breathing evenly, there is an obvious such as snoring, Alar flutter, mouth breathing; sleep apnea in; whether any unusual movements or status, such as lay sleeping, waking, and stretching of the flexion of the knee to the chest, crying the neck position.
Of course, not all children who snore are problematic, if it is a transient and snoring, was likely caused by rhinitis or upper respiratory tract infection, not too worried.
Timely treatment to good effect
Most common causes of snoring in children is tonsillar and adenoid hypertrophy, so removal of tonsil and adenoid surgery is the preferred treatment. Chronic sinusitis, after surgical removal of tonsil, adenoid, and then by the correct anti-inflammatory treatment, most patients can be cured.
Experts say that children\'s snoring treatment effect on overall good. Study confirmed that tonsil, adenoid body resection in patients with growth hormone secretion after increase weight gain. Improvement of life quality in patients with 87.7%~95% after the operation.
Three aspects of prevention of snoring in children
1. nutrition is to maintain balance, prevent due to nutrition and obesity. Parents should limit the excessive intake of sugar and caffeine for children, likes to drink Coke habit is not good for children\'s health.
2. ensure the regularity of children\'s daily schedule, reducing violent activities at night.
3. takes note of strengthening body resistance, reduce the occurrence of various acute and chronic respiratory diseases, avoid upper airway obstruction caused by inflammation.
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