Why surgery is not recommended for children with enlarged turbinates

Surgery is generally not recommended for children with enlarged turbinates, meaning that in younger children the disease is often caused by infections, allergies, and imperfect development of the autonomic nerves, and symptoms can often be effectively controlled with standardized conservative treatment. In older children, when the effect of conservative treatment is unsatisfactory, surgical treatment can also be selected to alleviate the symptoms and avoid complications. Turbinate hypertrophy in children is a hyperplasia and hypertrophic change of the mucous membrane or bone of the turbinate, often manifested as obvious hypertrophy of the inferior turbinate, or hypertrophy of the inferior turbinate and the middle turbinate. For pediatric turbinate hypertrophy try to use standardized conservative treatment under medical advice, such as: budesonide nasal spray nasal spray, montelukast sodium chewable tablets orally, physiological seawater nasal spray nasal wash and so on. If the standardized conservative treatment fails to improve the symptoms, and the acute inflammation of the nasal cavity and sinuses is frequent, causing ear and respiratory complications, surgical treatment can be considered. Pediatric patients with turbinate hypertrophy, due to the existence of ventilation abnormalities, breathing through the mouth, so daily attention should be paid to nasal cleaning, oral care and other issues. For healthy children, all types of rhinitis should be actively prevented to prevent recurrent inflammation leading to turbinate hypertrophy.