Many parents feel that children snore when they sleep is a good performance, in fact, snoring is also a “disease”, medically known as “snoring”. The reason why children snore in their sleep is due to the narrowing of the nasal, nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal airway, the airflow through the whistling process is not so smooth, airflow at high speed through these narrow parts will produce turbulence, causing the surrounding soft tissue vibration and emitting low-pitched sound (see below), you can hear the child snoring bursts with the whistling. In other words, a child who snores in his sleep means that there is an obstruction in the airway of the child’s nose, nasopharynx or oropharynx during sleep. If the obstruction is not serious and only causes snoring, medically it is called “primary snoring” or “simple snoring”; if the obstruction is serious, in addition to snoring, there is also whistling pause (whistling briefly stop), breath-holding, hypoventilation, low blood oxygen, etc. Medically it is called “severe snoring” or “obstructive sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome”. Snoring, especially severe snoring, has a series of adverse effects on children, mainly including: 1. Airway obstruction during sleep, a certain degree of oxygen deprivation, affects the quality of sleep, children love to doze off during the day, even if the sleep time is long enough during the day is not bright, serious will cause sleep deprivation, resulting in children’s inattention, memory loss, impairment of complex cognitive ability, etc., causing learning problems, affecting school; sleep deprivation can also lead to impulsivity, rebellion and aggression, etc., causing behavioral problems, sometimes diagnosed as It can also lead to behavioral problems, sometimes diagnosed as attention deficit or hyperactivity disorder, and can cause mood disorders, including moodiness, emotional instability, depression and irritability. 2, affect the child’s facial bone development, so that the child’s face value reduced. When the child is still developing, if the nasal, nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal obstruction occurs, the facial bones will compensate during the development process, resulting in the maxilla (when the nasopharynx is obstructed) and/or mandible (when the oropharynx is obstructed) protruding forward and growing, causing “adenoid face” or “geodesic face”. This can lead to “adenoid face” or “geodesis”. 3. It can also affect the growth and development of the child. For snoring for a long time, airway obstruction serious children, there may be growth retardation or stagnation, on the one hand, because of airway obstruction, whistling effort, increased energy consumption during sleep, on the other hand, because of poor sleep quality, the night growth hormone secretion is reduced caused. Others can cause enuresis, morning headache, thoracic deformities, pulmonary heart disease, and systemic hypertension. As you can see, sleep snoring can be big or small and can affect the physical and mental health of your child if it is serious. Of course, although snoring is one of the manifestations of sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome, but most people who snore are not so serious as to “whistle apnea hypoventilation”. The common cold, seasonal allergies, deviated nasal septum, enlarged tonsils, enlarged adenoids, and obesity can all cause snoring. Parents who haven’t noticed before can pay attention to whether their children snore while they sleep. If your child snores in his sleep, parents need not panic first, but must pay attention to it and take your child to the doctor in time. The actual “otorhinolaryngology” and “ophthalmology” are the best ways to check whether the obstruction is in the nose, nasopharynx or oropharynx, so that the problem can be detected as early as possible to prevent regrets.