Generally, you can judge whether your baby has enlarged adenoids from medical history, symptoms and examination.
1. Medical history: repeated episodes of adenoid inflammation, the spread of inflammation in neighboring organs may stimulate the adenoids to undergo pathological hyperplasia, triggering adenoid hypertrophy in babies.
2. Symptoms: babies with adenoid hypertrophy often suffer from hearing loss, tinnitus, nasal congestion, runny nose, paroxysmal cough and snoring during sleep, open-mouth breathing and so on. Some babies with adenoid hypertrophy will affect their facial development because of prolonged open-mouth breathing, which will be manifested by the so-called “adenoid face” such as maxillary bone lengthening and teeth misalignment.
3. Examination: adenoid hypertrophy baby medical visual diagnosis can be derived from “adenoid face”, fiberoptic nasopharyngoscopy can be seen in the hypertrophied adenoids blocking the posterior nasal aperture, the line of the nasopharyngeal lateral X-ray can be observed in the baby adenoid size, nasopharyngeal airway width and narrowness of the abnormality. Some babies with adenoid hypertrophy may also have different degrees of sleep apnea or hypoventilation on sleep monitoring.
It is recommended that parents who suspect that their babies have adenoid hypertrophy should bring their babies to the doctor in time to complete the relevant examinations and standardize the treatment.