Ask Ma Bao: Do you like sleeping on your stomach at night? Drooling? Do you like tossing and turning in bed when you sleep? Love sweating? Still snoring?
Always get a positive answer.
This is often a symptom of adenoidal hypertrophy in children during sleep. In addition, children may often have short stature, inattention, poor academic performance, chest deformity and other manifestations.
1, why don't children with adenoids grow tall?
People's sleep is divided into deep sleep period and shallow sleep period. When people enter deep sleep, the body will secrete growth hormone, which will help the growth of children's height. Hyperplasia of adenoids leads to respiratory obstruction in children, especially in sleep, airway obstruction is aggravated, and oxygen supply to the brain is insufficient, which directly leads to hypoxia in the anterior pituitary gland secreting growth hormone, resulting in decreased growth hormone secretion. This will not only affect the height of children, but also cause the decline of physical resistance, and also affect the development of children's intelligence.
Therefore, children's restless sleep, always tossing and turning, and even often waking up in their sleep are actually caused by lack of oxygen in the brain.
2. What about adenoidal hypertrophy? Do we have to have an operation?
Sleep disorder caused by adenoid hypertrophy also belongs to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The reason why this problem bothers many parents is that many children's symptoms are good and bad, which makes parents in a dilemma. When they are not well, they can't wait to have an operation at once. When it was good, they were glad they didn't have a hasty operation.
Many children go to the ear, nose and throat examination, adenoids are enlarged, and the posterior nasal passages are blocked by 40-50%. Usually the symptoms are not obvious, and I open my eyes a little when I sleep at most. Doctors don't recommend surgery, but only nasal spray or nasal washing, so parents don't care too much. But after a few years, the children are obviously shorter than their peers. ...
In fact, adenoidal hypertrophy is by no means the only way to go, and surgery can't solve all the problems of children with adenoidal hypertrophy. Dr. Li has treated many cases of recurrence of adenoids and tonsils, and some have had more than one operation.
There is nothing superfluous in a person's body. You can't cut off your finger if it is inflamed and swollen, can you? Adenoids and tonsils are both immune organs of human body, which play an important role in resisting the invasion of viruses and bacteria. When there is a problem, you don't consider the cause of the problem, but simply cut in rudely. For western medicine, this is only a last resort-because western medicine has no better way and the effect of conservative treatment is not ideal.
3. What does Chinese medicine think of adenoidal hypertrophy?
Adenoid hypertrophy, in fact, has no special corresponding disease name in Chinese medicine (it is classified as nasal smothering disease in modern times), so the problem that children with adenoid hypertrophy don't grow up is not well understood by the ancients and rarely described by doctors in past dynasties.
How to understand and treat adenoidal hypertrophy with traditional Chinese medicine? After a long period of clinical and thinking, Dr. Li has come up with a set of his own views and treatment plans, which I would like to share with you briefly.
Chinese medicine believes that height is mainly determined by kidney essence and kidney qi, and kidney belongs to water and is congenital. Under normal circumstances, height is mainly determined by the essence in the kidney (congenital inheritance).
Adenoids are located in the posterior nasal meatus, which belongs to the classification of lungs in traditional Chinese medicine-the lungs control breathing and enlighten the nose. Personally, most adenoid hypertrophy has a basic pathogenesis, that is, deficiency of both lung and spleen, heat depression of lung meridian, internal resistance of phlegm and dampness, and phlegm and blood stasis.
Lung belongs to gold, kidney belongs to water, and gold gives birth to water. Therefore, the lung is the mother of the kidney, and the mother's illness is easy to hurt the child. Therefore, it is difficult for lung doctors to use kidney qi to play normal physiological functions, which leads to the situation that children are not tall.
Therefore, in the treatment of adenoid hypertrophy, Dr. Li often mainly regulates the lungs and kidneys, and adds Polygonatum, Cornus officinalis, Dioscorea opposita, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli and so on. Achieve the goal of "golden water and water" by going to the basics. Clinical practice has proved that the self-made Yizhi Zhuyang Pill combined with Adenoid Pill 1 No.2 has a definite therapeutic effect.
Generally speaking, early children are treated and intervened in time when they are still young, and their height is still better. In the later period, especially when the child is almost ten years old, it is more difficult. But can it be saved? Personal experience has proved that accurate prescription and medication not only have no side effects, but also have better effects than injection of growth hormone.