Causes of snoring in one-year-old and two-year-old babies.
1, sleeping posture problem. If the baby often sleeps on his back, it is easy to cause the root of his tongue to fall back, causing throat stenosis and snoring.
Suggestion: the sleeping position is mainly lateral position. Compared with supine position, lateral sleeping can reduce the decline of tongue root and relieve snoring symptoms. A mother can sew a soft elastic ball on the back of her baby's pajamas, which is beneficial to controlling sleeping posture and reducing the chance of sleeping on her back. In addition, babies who snore are generally sensitive to environmental stimuli, so it is necessary to create a good sleeping environment and avoid external stimuli.
2. The height of the pillow. Improper pillow height can also lead to neck flexion and airway obstruction.
Suggestion: 3-month-old babies begin to learn to look up, and the spine begins to bend forward naturally. At the same time, with the development of the body, the shoulders gradually widen. In order to make the posture suitable when sleeping, the baby can start to use the pillow after 3 months, and the height is generally about 4 cm. With the increase of age, the height of the pillow also increases gradually.
3. disease. Adenoids and tonsils develop rapidly in early childhood. Adenoid hypertrophy and tonsil hypertrophy are unique diseases in childhood. When the temperature changes, malnutrition, decreased resistance or upper respiratory tract infection, inflammation involves tonsils and adenoids, causing further swelling, blocking the posterior nostril and oropharynx, leading to airway obstruction and snoring.
Suggestion: Generally speaking, if snoring caused by tonsillar or adenoid hypertrophy is diagnosed, excision is the main method.
4. swallow it. If the baby doesn't swallow it completely when feeding or the mother immediately puts the baby down to sleep, it may cause the milk in the baby's mouth to block the throat and cause snoring.
Suggestion: After feeding, you can pat your baby on the back to promote swallowing, and then feed some water to avoid milk lumps in your mouth. If the baby has symptoms of nasal congestion, you can use nasal spray containing normal saline.
5. Obesity. The baby's oropharyngeal fat pad is thickened. Due to gravity, the throat and retrolingual space becomes narrower during sleep, and the accumulation of fat pad aggravates the narrowing of airway space, which is easy to cause snoring.
Suggestion: Obesity is not only easy to cause snoring, but also increases the burden on the heart and affects reproductive development. Studies have shown that obese children can improve the state of hypoxia during sleep and reduce the occurrence of sleep apnea if they can reduce their standard weight.
Second, what should the baby do when he sleeps and snores?
It is necessary to find and treat early, and at the same time pay attention to a balanced diet and keep a regular schedule. If the baby is found to be snoring and breathing poorly during sleep, parents should carefully observe the child's condition and take it to the hospital for special examination if necessary. If necessary, surgical treatment, such as tonsillectomy, gland curettage, maxillary and mandibular plastic surgery, nasal surgery, etc., are all effective measures to treat children's respiratory disorders.
What should the baby do when he sleeps and snores at night? Mom can do the following things every day:
1, balance the baby's diet, 10 months. Baby should add complementary food in time, increase the diversity of food and feed it reasonably.
2, help your baby to enhance physical fitness and reduce the chance of upper respiratory tract infection. For example, bask in the outdoor sunshine and breathe fresh air; Play a crawling game to make the baby strong.
3. Help your baby clean up secretions such as runny nose in time and keep your nose relatively unobstructed.
4. If the baby sleeps on his back and snores, try to change his sleeping position and put a baby pillow on his head.
5. If the symptoms of snoring are serious, you should seek medical advice in time and cooperate with the treatment. If the adenoid hypertrophy is serious, you can also choose surgery.
In addition, to prevent the baby from snoring, we should also pay attention to maintaining a balanced nutrition, prevent obesity due to overnutrition, ensure the regularity of its work and rest time, and reduce strenuous activities at night. At the same time, we should pay attention to strengthen the baby's physique, reduce the chances of suffering from various acute and chronic respiratory infectious diseases, and avoid upper respiratory tract obstruction caused by inflammation.
Third, the danger of snoring when the baby sleeps at night.
Most patients with infant snoring are caused by abnormal development of adenoids and tonsil hypertrophy or craniofacial structures in the nasopharynx. Due to obvious airway obstructive lesions, apnea is prone to occur, leading to hypoxia, which affects the normal development and learning of the baby. It is reported that severe snoring can lead to infant dementia. Therefore, if the baby snores at night, is inattentive in class, lethargy, poor memory and poor academic performance, he should go to the ENT department to check his nasopharynx and tonsils first. If hypertrophy is obvious, corresponding treatment should be carried out.
Baby snoring will reduce the quality of sleep and affect the development of the body, especially the intelligence. For the baby, the sleep breathing disorder caused by snoring is very harmful, which will change the sleep time, interrupt the continuity of sleep and reduce the quality of sleep. In the sleep state, especially in the deep sleep state, the baby's brain during the growth and development period will release a lot of growth hormones to promote the growth and development of various systems of the baby's body. Once the quality of sleep declines, it will inevitably reduce the release of growth hormone and affect development, such as short stature.
In addition, adequate sleep is very important for the development of the baby's nervous system. Sleep disorders often lead to hypoxia in the brain, which not only makes the baby mentally stunted, but also may affect other aspects of the brain and even the heart.
The baby's bone, chest and lung functions are all in the process of growth and development. If you have sleep apnea, the negative pressure in the chest will increase, which may cause slight deformity and become a hidden disease when you grow up. Infants and young children should be more careful about this symptom, because once sleep apnea occurs, it may even lead to sudden death of the baby due to excessive hypoxia during sleep.
Fourth, the nursing focus of infant sleep snoring
1, adjust the sleeping position of the child.
Parents can let their children sleep on their side. Lying on their side can change the position of the throat tissue, so that the root of the tongue will not droop excessively and block the breathing passage, and the secretion will be reduced and stay in the pharynx, so that the child will not be blocked from breathing and snoring.
2. Children should be actively treated when they catch a cold.
It can be used reasonably under the guidance of a doctor to reduce respiratory secretions and tonsil swelling. It is also important to improve children's immunity. Usually let the children move farther away to enhance their physique.
3. Let children develop good living habits
What a mother has to do is to prepare three meals with balanced nutrition for her children, to prevent them from being overweight, to ensure a regular schedule, and not to do strenuous activities before going to bed. Don't let children eat too much sugary food, which will help prevent children from snoring.
4. Treat children's snoring with pepper.
Mom can soak 5 ~ 10 pepper in a cup of boiling water and drink a cup of cold pepper water every night before going to bed for 5 days, which may have unexpected effects.
5. Surgery can be used to treat children's snoring when necessary.
If the child snores badly, it is confirmed by the doctor that it is caused by adenoidal hypertrophy, and other treatments are ineffective, surgery can be considered.