Adenoid enlargement, should I have surgery? Many parents often ask this question. We often encounter children who snore at night and breathe with their mouths open, and when they go to the hospital for examination, they are found to have adenoid hypertrophy. So adenoidal hypertrophy, do you need to do surgery? What kind of adenoidal hypertrophy requires surgery and does adenoidal hypertrophy surgery affect children? Will it cause anesthesia accidents? First of all, let’s take a look at what adenoids are. Adenoids are lymphatic tissues that grow in the nasopharynx. Every child is born with adenoids, some children are congenitally hypertrophic, normally, there will be physiological hyperplasia from the age of 3 to 6 years old, after 9 to 10 years old will gradually shrink, some children due to repeated upper respiratory tract infections, repeated rhinitis, pharyngeal infections, will lead to adenoid hyperplasia, followed by open mouth breathing, snoring, secretory otitis media, etc., so adenoids surgery, not adenoid hypertrophy are to do surgery The adenoids are located in the nasopharynx, and it depends on whether he has symptoms or not. The adenoids are located in the nasopharynx, so the surgery is entered by the mouth, operated under the endoscope, there are two kinds of electric cut and suck and plasma, are minimally invasive surgery, the child is not too uncomfortable after surgery, postoperative care, the next day after surgery can eat normally, so the surgery is less painful, parents do not have to worry about the child can not tolerate surgery Third, surgical anesthesia will not affect intelligence The current children’s surgery are intravenous compound anesthesia, simply put, is the infusion of anesthesia with the anesthesia. The child will wake up soon after the surgery, so it will not affect his intelligence. 4. Is it okay to not do adenoid surgery? Parents often ask, “Is it okay not to have surgery for adenoid hypertrophy? In fact, whether adenoidal hypertrophy needs surgery or not depends on what problems it brings. If it is just a little snoring, it is not necessary to do it, but it is better to do it if it causes apnea and secretory otitis media.