Is it normal for children to snore?

Snoring is also called snoring. Many people snore, including infants. Infants will make slight snoring sounds when they sleep, which is normal, but if the snoring is loud, it is not normal. In this case, it should be considered a disease. The most common one is hypertrophy of proliferative bodies, which brings great harm to people. Let's take a look at whether it is normal for babies to snore.

The adenoids, also known as the adenoids, are a large piece of lymphoid tissue located on the posterior wall of the nasopharynx behind the nasal cavity. The proliferative body develops rapidly in early childhood, with the most vigorous growth between the ages of 3 and 6, and gradually shrinks during puberty. Therefore, hypertrophy of proliferative bodies is a unique lesion in early childhood. Normal-sized proliferative bodies have no effect on children, but if the proliferative bodies are too large, they will affect their physical and mental health.

Growth changes, malnutrition, decreased resistance, or colds, tonsillitis, rhinitis, and sinusitis can all lead to hypertrophy of the proliferative body. The nasal condyle is too enlarged and blocks the posterior nostril, which not only blocks the drainage of nasal secretions but also blocks the air from entering and exiting the nasal cavity. After the child falls asleep, the gas exhaled from the trachea is forced to be exhaled from the mouth. Because the muscles of the whole body relax during sleep, the tongue also relaxes and falls into the pharynx, making the pharynx narrow and blocked. At this time, the gas will impact the root of the tongue and the suspensory tissues from time to time, making bursts of nocturnal sounds with breathing.

If young children snore, hold their breath, and breathe through their mouths for a long time, it will affect their physical and brain development, causing their intelligence to decline, their reactions to become slow, their expressions to become dull, and their appearance to suffer from the disappearance of the nasolabial grooves, thickening and upturned upper lip, protruding and exposed upper incisors, sagging mandibles, and a high and arched hard palate, forming a special "proliferative face". Hypertrophy of the eustachian tube cartilage can also hinder the movement of the eustachian tube cartilage, making it easy for middle ear effusion to occur, causing otitis media and conductive hearing loss.

The above are two common factors that cause snoring in babies. Through the above introduction, we know that snoring in babies is abnormal. No matter which of the above reasons is caused, or if both exist at the same time, you must actively go to the hospital's ENT department for examination, and then actively treat it, so as to avoid the condition from getting worse.