What are the dangers of snoring and breath holding in children?

Clinically, snoring in children is generally caused by enlarged adenoids. Snoring in children is not a bad habit, but a disease. If the child's adenoids are too enlarged, it may cause nasal congestion and the child will develop the habit of breathing through the mouth, which makes it easy for him to snore while sleeping. This situation needs to attract the attention of parents. So, what are the dangers of snoring and breath holding in children?

Disease hazards

1. It will make children short

If a child has snoring symptoms, he or she will often wake up several times during sleep due to difficulty breathing, and his or her sleep will be constantly interrupted. This will reduce the child's actual sleep time, reduce the secretion of growth hormone, and affect the child's height growth.

2. Cause pigeon chest in children

Poor sleep quality and lack of oxygen in the body can easily cause children to have difficulty breathing during sleep, and can also lead to chest deformity and pigeon chest. The harm caused by snoring in children also manifests itself in excessive sweating during sleep at night. The main reason is the neuroendocrine and metabolic dysfunction caused by lack of oxygen. Among the symptoms of snoring in children, the incidence of abnormal conditions such as sleepwalking and night terrors is significantly increased.

3. Make children less intelligent

Snoring in children can cause a decrease in oxygen levels in the blood, and the brain is most sensitive to oxygen. Children's brain development will be affected first.

Children's growth and development require adequate nutrition as support, and the human body can only synthesize many nutrients well during sleep. In this way, once the child's sleep is affected, nutrients cannot be synthesized well, and no matter how much he eats, it will not promote the child's growth.

4. Changes in children’s facial appearance

Causes abnormal development of craniofacial bones. According to long-term clinical observations, about 15% of children with snoring have facial deformities, which are mostly caused by mouth breathing. Babies with snoring breathe with their mouths open while sleeping, and the impact of the airflow may cause their faces to become deformed, expressionless, and have a "dementia" look.

If you want to avoid snoring in your child, you should start with the diet. You should add complementary foods to your child when it is time to do so, ensure that the types of food are diversified, and pay attention to reasonable feeding methods. At the same time, we should find ways to strengthen the baby's physique so as to prevent respiratory tract infections in children. The secretions in the child's nostrils should be cleaned up in time.