At night children snore timely seek medical advice

The capital medical university affiliated Beijing children's hospital professor ShenKunLing

Sources: health

        In the 11th breathing physician BBS, experts point out that children night snoring nots allow to ignore.

        Children patients with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrom, English referred to as OSAHS in children, cardiovascular system, physical development, respiratory system, learning ability, cognitive, listening, inflammation factors change, all affect the quality of life.

        OSAHS the most common and most serious complications is children's growth and development lag behind and cardiovascular disease. Early influence on children's cognitive ability, cause learning disabilities, developmental delay. The international famous experts Gozal and Pope study found that the elementary school grade 1 and grade 2 is a sleep-related breathing disorder in children treated, can prevent them to high school cognitive defects occurred.

        According to statistics, Beijing children's hospital OSAHS in the main cause of 62% pure adenoid body, tonsil hypertrophy, 30% for the diagnosis of adenoid tonsil hypertrophy, with obesity, 5% fat, 1% for the diagnosis of adenoid, tonsil obesity with nasal polyp, 2% for the other. Patients the symptoms of night appear for mouth breathing, bruxism, snoring, sleepwalking, sweating, secondary night enuresis, sleep uneasy, nightmares, lachrymation, night fear. The day of symptoms for the behavior difficulties, language defect, hyperactivity, dysphagia, and not normal shy, decreased appetite. School-age children can appear class the attention is not centralized, study result drops, sleep in the daytime or doze, rebellion or aggressive behavior, since morning headache, developmental delay. Parents find children sleep snoring need to be vigilant, don't think this is the child sleep sweet performance, with low bridge of the nose, chin small children more should observe their sleep, because these children's physiological airway will be more narrow, are more likely to happen obstructive apnea.

        The treatment of OSAHS include adenoid body, tonsil hypertrophy surgical resection, may need to use a noninvasive ventilation, position treatment, control weight, drug use, oral orthopedic and cranium facial surgery, etc.