Breathing through the mouth may be caused by physiological factors such as poor sleeping posture or pathological factors such as enlarged adenoids, and can be treated by adjusting the sleeping posture and treating the cause of the problem, depending on the situation.
If the child’s breathing through the mouth only occurs in recent days, it may be a transient phenomenon caused by the child’s recent cold or poor sleeping posture. Parents can appropriately adjust the sleeping position for the baby, sea salt water spray nasal cavity to ensure that the child sleeps comfortably.
If your child has been breathing through his mouth for a long time and the problem persists, it may be caused by nasal diseases such as deviated septum and adenoid hypertrophy. For deviated septum, mometasone furoate nasal spray can be used as anti-infective treatment, and if conservative treatment is not effective, surgery can be performed.
For tonsils, adenoids are too enlarged to cause airway obstruction, most of them can be gradually atrophied with age, such as obvious impact on life, can be treated surgically.
There may be other reasons for children to breathe through their mouths besides those listed above, so parents can bring their children to the ENT clinic in time for professional treatment under the guidance of the doctor.