Adenoid hypertrophy in children is a common disease that affects the growth and development of children, and in recent years has received increasing attention from doctors and parents. Opinions vary. Often, the patient’s family has different opinions. Mom and dad say they want surgery, but grandparents and grandma and grandpa are upset that the child can’t have surgery. Parents are torn, family members are torn. In the end, how to do well which? We need to find out the source of the disease to evolve the benefits of surgery. Here I will tell you one by one. A, what is adenoid hypertrophy, it has what harm to children? Adenoids, also known as proliferators or pharyngeal tonsils, is a lymphatic tissue of the human body, located at the back of the nasal cavity, the top of the nasopharynx, under normal circumstances, a few mm thick, has a certain immune role, if it is too large, can block the nasal cavity from the back of the nasal cavity, causing nasal congestion in patients, a long time can cause chronic hypoxia in the child’s organism, and chronic hypoxia in children, can lead to the child’s growth and development is affected, which aspects of development can be affected? Mainly in the following 3 aspects. 1, physical development, can affect the child’s growth, affecting the height of the chicken chest; 2, affect the development of the brain, affecting intelligence; 3, can affect the development of facial appearance, so that the child’s teeth are not aligned, the upper lip upturned, thick lips, dull expression called adenoid face. In addition to the above, it can also block the patient’s eustachian tube pharynx causing exudative otitis media. What is the performance of adenoid hypertrophy patients? 1. Snoring (also known as snoring) during sleep, open-mouth breathing, increased urination at night, etc. can be the most important. 2, can have a sense of ear blockage, hearing loss and other exudative otitis media performance. 3, can have nasal congestion symptoms, easily misdiagnosed as rhinitis. 4. There can be adenoid face. 3. How to diagnose? It is mainly based on the patient’s performance mentioned above. As the adenoids are located at the back of the nasal cavity, they cannot be seen directly, so we have to rely on the following two methods: 1. x-ray, lateral nasopharyngeal film (or nasopharyngeal CT), and 2. electronic nasopharyngoscopy. The pros and cons of the two are as follows. The former, convenient, economic child painless, easy to cooperate, but to contact the X ray and not intuitive (CT children contact X ray more, I do not recommend) and the latter intuitive clear, children do not contact X ray but spend a little more money and children are not easy to cooperate, there is a certain pain.