ENT diseases in children: symptoms and consequences

ENT diseases (i.e., throat, ear and nose)are the most common among children. The flow of some of them can be very difficult. Consider some ENT diseases, symptoms and their consequences.

The most frequent and quite dangerous of them is a common cold. In pediatrics, he is named acute rhinitis. Predisposing factors to itsoccurrence are: supercooling, temperature sharp fluctuations, air pollution in cities, living in unventilated rooms. Rhinitis is expressed in the congestion of the nose, the presence of mucous membranes, and then purulent discharge. In addition, fatigue, weakness and fever are observed.

In the absence of targeted treatment, rhinitis can become a factor provoking other ENT diseases.

First, the presence of frequent recurrences of colds, which follow one after another, lead most often to the development of a different form. Chronic rhinitis will require careful and long-term treatment.

Secondly, if there is no treatment for an acute cold, then otitis media and acute sinusitis may develop. Consider the data of ENT diseases.

Acute Sinusitis is the presence of inflammatoryprocess in the paranasal sinuses. The disease appears in the event that the infection begins to spread through them. As a result, the child is troubled by nasal congestion, abundant purulent discharge, severe headaches in the nose, forehead and under the eyes.

Acute otitis media appears when the infection penetrates into thean auditory tube. It is a kind of conductor between the "nasopharynx" and the middle ear. The disease usually begins suddenly and sharply, quickly the temperature is understood. The child begins to complain about the discomfort in the ears. If there is no timely treatment, the disease will very quickly become a form purulent otitis, and then, perhaps, in meningitis.

Adenoids or adenoid vegetation arehypertrophic inflamed tonsil. This pathology is common in children aged three to nine years. The causes can be: cooling, allergic condition, chronic rhinitis. All this provokes the further development of adenoids. The disease is manifested by the presence of obstructed nasal breathing, an obvious decrease in hearing, snoring, nasal in the voice, nocturnal enuresis. At the fourth stage, the ENT doctor recommends the removal of adenoids.

Tonsillitis is one of the most commondiseases of the throat. But enlarged tonsils can not be a sign of chronic form. Most often this is a consequence of the active development of immunity, or simply an anatomical feature.

Chronic tonsillitis has two forms: decompensated and compensated. Consider these diseases of ENT organs in detail.

With an uncompensated type of disease, a childis considered almost healthy, there are only small signs of a chronic inflammatory process in the tonsils. If there are provoking factors, then there is a risk of recurring acute angina or even paratonsillar abscess.

Compensated form of tonsillitis is verydangerous. Such children should be registered with the Laura and receive advice at least twice a year (in spring and autumn). To get rid of this disease you need:

• Carry out decontamination of carious teeth, which are considered the main source of infections in the oral cavity;
• to restore the broken nasal breathing (to cure rhinitis, to remove adenoids).

Compensated form of tonsillitis contributes to the emergence of a number of diseases: cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and kidney (pyelonephritis, glomerulonephritis).