Conservative treatments for adenoid hypertrophy are paying attention to nutrition, preventing colds, improving immunity, and actively treating the primary disease. With age, adenoids will gradually shrink and the condition may be relieved or the symptoms may disappear completely. There are patients who still need surgery through standardized conservative treatment, so there is no best conservative treatment.
Under normal physiological conditions, adenoids proliferate in children between the ages of 2 and 6 years, gradually shrinking after the age of 10 and disappearing in adults. If adenoid hyperplasia and hypertrophy cause a series of clinical symptoms in childhood, it is called adenoid hypertrophy.
If conservative treatment is ineffective, adenoidectomy should be performed orally or endoscopically as soon as possible. Careful examination should be made before surgery to exclude contraindications. Surgery is often performed together with tonsillectomy, and if there is no clear indication for tonsil surgery, the adenoids can be removed alone.
Timely adenoidectomy can improve symptoms and normalize development and nutritional status as soon as possible. The prognosis of this disease is good, but it is difficult to return to the normal level for those who have developed “adenoidal face” and thoracic deformity.