Snoring is a relatively common disease that occurs in both adults and children, but we must not ignore children snoring, children snoring is extremely harmful to have to prevent!
What is the cause of snoring in children? In clinical practice, we find that almost all snoring in children is caused by tonsillar hypertrophy and adenoid hypertrophy.
So, what are the dangers of snoring in children? As children are growing and developing, long-term hypoxia and open-mouth breathing have multiple effects on the affected children: if long-term open-mouth breathing leads to malformation of oral and maxillofacial development, long and narrow face, receding jaw, high palatal arch, thick lips, etc.; asphyxial brain damage due to hypoxia, and epilepsy in severe cases. Brain development is affected and learning cognitive ability is reduced. Behavioral and psychological changes, hyperactivity and irritability. In addition, snoring in children can cause secretory otitis media, which can cause hearing loss, affect intellectual development, and may lead to cardiovascular disease.
Last year, our department met a 7-year-old girl from Ganquan who came to our department for examination because of snoring (extremely enlarged tonsils) and was recommended to be hospitalized for surgery. However, the child suffered respiratory arrest in the early morning of the next day after going home from the outpatient visit and died when she was brought to our hospital.
It is because of the great danger of snoring in children that when the symptoms of snoring appear in children, they have to be prevented. At this time, parents are advised to take their children to the ENT department of regular hospitals for examination and, if necessary, surgery.
Our department adopts the advanced low-temperature plasma system to treat pediatric snoring, which makes use of the characteristics of low-temperature plasma with ultra-low temperature (40℃～70℃), strong hemostatic function and no radiation to cut the enlarged tonsils and adenoids, and it is feasible to ablate the tonsils of younger children, which can not only relieve the snoring symptoms but also preserve the function of the tonsils and reduce the concerns of parents of younger children. Therefore, plasma surgery has been considered as the most ideal way to treat pediatric snoring.
In just one week in July this year, five children with snoring disorder were hospitalized in our department and asked for plasma surgery, so our department adopted the advanced plasma knife to remove the enlarged tonsils and adenoids of the children with almost no bleeding, reaching “0” bleeding (traditional surgery to remove tonsils and adenoids often requires tens of milliliters or even hundreds of milliliters of bleeding). ml). It is truly a minimally invasive surgery with fast post-operative recovery, reducing post-operative hospitalization and post-operative medication for the child.