Many parents find that after the birth of their children, there is always a snoring sound in the voice, and in more serious cases, there is also difficulty in breathing. When they bring their children to the hospital, they are diagnosed with laryngeal chondromalacia, which makes parents anxious. What is laryngeal chondromalacia? What are the symptoms of laryngeal chondromalacia? What is the treatment once diagnosed? This article will provide you with the answers. Molluscum contagiosum has a high incidence of symptoms that appear within 2 weeks of birth. The majority of children can be cured by the age of 2 years without treatment or with conservative treatment, while 10% of children require surgery. If your child develops laryngeal stridor shortly after birth, it is highly suspicious for laryngeal chondromalacia. In addition to laryngeal stridor, your child may exhibit feeding, activity, agitation, crying or lying on his or her back, recurrent upper respiratory infections, or exacerbation of upper respiratory infections. Difficulty in feeding is another typical manifestation of this disease. The child vomits, regurgitates and chokes after breastfeeding, and in severe cases, may suffer from malnutrition, weight loss, or even developmental delay due to feeding difficulties. In severe cases, the child will have difficulty breathing due to laryngeal softening. The child’s lips are purple and blue, and apnea is a sign of respiratory distress. Prolonged oxygen deprivation will affect the child’s cardiopulmonary function, resulting in pulmonary heart disease. Pulmonary hypertension and other serious complications, prolonged dyspnea, because of the child’s respiratory effort, resulting in thoracic dysplasia, deformity, thus bringing more pain to the child. If your child has any of the above symptoms appearing, don’t hesitate to bring your child to the hospital for timely consultation. Different types of laryngeal tenderness will have different effects on your child’s health, and the treatment recommendations given by our doctors will also be different. In order to understand the severity of the disease in your child, we will perform an electronic nasolaryngoscopy, which allows us to see the larynx under direct vision, as well as to see if it is combined with other problems. Often children with laryngeal tenderness will also have a combination of gastroesophageal reflux, neurological disorders (developmental delay, microcephaly, cerebral palsy, etc.), genetic disorders, and other congenital anomalies (congenital heart disease, posterior nasal atresia, hearing loss, etc.). If there is a combination of these problems, take your child for further tests. Once your child is actually diagnosed with laryngeal chondromalacia, your main concern must be the treatment and prognosis. Generally speaking, laryngeal chondromalacia has a tendency to heal on its own. As long as you take good care of your child, feed him well and give him lots of sunshine, about 75% of children with laryngeal chondromalacia have their wheezing gone by the age of 2. Children with other diseases need to be treated at the same time. For children with GERD, anti-reflux treatment is essential. Adjusting the feeding pattern and keeping the child in an upright position can help the child recover more quickly. For children with life-threatening severe laryngomalacia who cannot be fed orally, have difficulty gaining weight, have stagnant growth, have neuropsychiatric developmental delays, have pulmonary hypertension or cor pulmonale, or have hypoxemia or hypercapnia, we need to aggressively pursue supraglottoplasty surgery. Unfortunately, some children with severe laryngeal chondromalacia cannot undergo supraglottoplasty because of their condition, so we will first perform a tracheotomy to save the child’s life, and then perform further surgery when the child’s condition permits. I really hope this article can help you. May your child grow up healthy.