Adenoids are a difficult disease

Quite often you can see children and adultspeople who breathe through the mouth, because of what it is constantly open. At first glance it may seem that a person has a common cold with stuffy nose. In fact, it can be a very serious disease with serious consequences.

Adenoids are an inflammatory process associated with the proliferation of connective and lymphoid tissues in the nasopharynx. In general, this pathology occurs in children aged 1 to 15 years.

Normally nasopharyngeal tonsils (adenoids) arepart of the pharyngeal lymphatic ring, which surrounds the oral cavity and nasopharynx. Their lymphatic follicles are not developed at birth. Already by the age of three, the body's defense system is being formed, the purpose of which is to prevent the infection from spreading and spreading. It is in the lymphatic follicles are the immune cells that perform the role of "defenders".

Adenoids (photos) can manifest asan independent disease, and combine with other inflammatory processes, and therefore the causes of the appearance of this ailment are diverse. First and foremost, infections that the woman has experienced during pregnancy, which can lead to anomalies in the development of the fetal organs, can be felt. Also during this period, an excessive factor in the formation of adenoids is the excessive use of medicines by the mother.

Already in the process of development of the child and his immunesystems can provoke inflammation of adenoids can such acute diseases as laryngitis, tonsillitis, sinusitis and others. The cause can also serve as an allergic predisposition and chronic infection.

Adenoids are a chronic process developinggradually and adversely affecting the entire body. When they increase, the normal structure of the tissue changes. Damaged adenoids expand, gradually closing the lumen of the nasopharynx, hence the corresponding symptomatology:

• nasal voice;
• shortness of nasal breathing;
• irritability and tearfulness;
• constant fatigue;
• drowsiness;
• delay in physical development;
• snore;
• hearing loss;
• headache;
• frequent colds and otitis;
• stopping breathing;
• rhinitis, sinusitis, sinusitis.

In childhood it is very important not to admitdeformation of the facial skeleton in the form of an adenoid facial expression. Due to the constant stuffiness of the nose and the mouth that is always open for breathing, the child stretches his face, narrows the nasal passages and lower jaw, bite violation, absence of lip closure.

Adenoids in adults, as in children, are manifesteddifficulty in nasal breathing and discharge of purulent fluid. Also, the constant accompanying disease is a headache (brain tissue suffers from a lack of oxygen and ceases to function normally). And adenoids are an eternal source of infections in the body, so there may be complications such as acute otitis media, glomerulonephritis, rheumatism, myocarditis, chronic diseases of the respiratory system.

Treatment of adenoids is not particularly difficult for modern medicine. It is carried out by a conservative method (medicinal preparations) and surgical, in which the altered tonsils are removed.

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