What is a children's snoring? What are the causes of children's snoring? Answers to the questions you will find in the article.
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If they snore children...
Children, like adults, also snoring in a dream, and it delivers inconvenience not only «listeners», but also the little row. According to statistical data, about 5% of children snatch in a dream (aged 1 to 7 years).
Snoring is not always dangerous. Every person, regardless of age, sometimes screames in a dream. Specialists are distinguished «normal» and «pathological» snore.
It should be worried if the snoring is loud, interferes with the child to sleep, he often wakes up, breathing badly and day, if the snoring is intermittent and accompanied by a breath retention.
The most common cause of children's snoring is enlarged adenoids, the runny nose acute or chronic.
The curvature of the nasal partition and anomaly in the structure of the bones of the facial skull, soft and solid sky.
Currently, endoscopy of nasopharynx is used to diagnose the causes of snoring. This method is informative and practically painless.
Often, the survey does not reveal acute pathology and the operational method of treatment is not required, however, if the doctor insists on operations, then it should be heard to his opinion, and in parallel to pass the survey from other specialists.
Nevertheless, before deciding to radical measures, several simple ways to help in the fight against snoring should be applied:
- Support normal humidity in the bedroom. Dry air (especially in autumn - winter) causes the formation of dry «Cork» in the nose that interfere with nasal breathing and cause snoring. Wet cleaning for the night, humidifiers and drops in the nose will help «Aquamaris» or «Salin».
- Choose a comfortable pillow. Too high pillow can provoke snoring, t.To. causes the gear of the neck. Try using a flat pillow with a height of no more than 3-6 cm., which can be sewed from the sinteration.
- Use vesseloring drops into the nose. This way you can use if the snoring in the child is caused by the acute nasal congestion. Apply such funds constantly and without consultation does not follow a doctor, t.To. This can lead to even more negative consequences. Successful examples of vesseloring agents, is «Vibrocil», «Tizin», «Orivin».
