Vocal fold polyps are gray-white, smooth surface polyp-like tissues that occur in the front middle edge of one side of the vocal folds, mostly single or multiple on one side, with a tip or wide base, often gray-white translucent-like, or red small protrusions, with a tip often move up and down with breathing, large ones can block the vocal folds to occur breathing difficulties, affecting pronunciation. The position is located in the junction of the anterior and middle third of the vocal folds, generally children with vocal fold nodules can be temporarily not to deal with, adults with nodules or polyps generally need to be treated through surgery. After the surgery, you should routinely abstain from the sound and can do nebulization treatment, and pay attention to the method of pronunciation and avoid excessive vocalization to prevent recurrence. Etiology Vocal cord polyps are mostly caused by inappropriate or excessive vocalization, and can also be caused after a strong vocalization, so the disease is mostly seen in patients with occupational vocalization or excessive vocalization, and can also be secondary to upper respiratory tract infection. Chronic laryngitis of various causes, can cause vocal cord polyps, especially long-term excessive use of voice, or inappropriate use of voice, has an extremely important stimulating factors, the disease is common in occupational vocal and excessive use of voice, such as shouting, adults and children can be affected. Symptoms The main symptom is hoarseness, the degree of which varies depending on the size and type of polyp. Small limited polyps have only slight voice changes, while polyps with a wide base have more severe hoarseness, a low and monotonous tone, inability to sing, or even loss of voice. Large polyps can cause laryngeal tinnitus and dyspnea. Hazards 1. Vocal fold polyp can make the vocal folds close incompletely during pronunciation, resulting in hoarseness. And due to the increased weight of the vocal cords, resulting in pronunciation fatigue, without timely treatment will gradually aggravate, and later hoarseness will gradually aggravate and persistent, there may also be blood in the sputum, lymph node metastasis in the neck and other symptoms, and even the possibility of complete loss of voice. 2.The most terrible feature of vocal cord polyp is that it can become cancerous. And in the cancer or after the cancer, many patients with vocal cord polyps do not have any uncomfortable feeling, however, they are developing unknowingly, unknowingly cancerous, so the lethal power of vocal cord polyps is sudden cancer. If you have vocal cord polyps, you should get timely treatment. Diagnosis 1.Various degrees of hoarseness. 2, laryngoscopy: vocal fold polyps are grayish white or light red smooth redundant organisms on many sides, with a tip or broad-based or diffuse vocal fold edges with grayish white salami-like masses. Treatment General treatment: 1, actively treat respiratory infectious diseases, avoid excessive use of the voice, especially during acute laryngitis, menstruation. 2.Do not hold your breath too hard and too long when lifting heavy force, so as not to strain the vocal cords too hard. 3. Early patients should strictly abstain from voice for 2-3 weeks, and 1 week after surgical treatment. Vocal training should be conducted immediately after the recovery of the incision to correct incorrect vocal methods and prevent recurrence. Local treatment: 1. Steam or nebulized inhalation, treatment with benzoin tincture, menthol or potassium iodide, soda. 2.Use chlorhexidine or iodine-containing laryngeal tablets for containment. 3.Surgical treatment: Surgery is the main treatment for the disease and is suitable for mature polyps. Surgical treatment: Patients with larger or fibrotic vocal fold nodules and long-term vocal fold polyps should be treated by surgery when vocal fold rest, vocal training and medication are ineffective. Currently, there are two main surgical methods available to patients: ① Removal of vocal fold nodules or vocal fold polyps through indirect laryngoscopy under local anesthesia (now largely unused); ② Removal of vocal fold nodules or vocal fold polyps under fiberoptic laryngoscopy. Since early vocal fold cancer and some vocal fold polyps are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. Therefore, corresponding pathological examination should be performed on the removed vocal fold polyps. For patients who cannot cooperate with the treatment under local anesthesia, they should be treated surgically by general anesthesia.