Approximately from the age of 12 adenoid sizes begin to decrease, and in the period from 16 to 20 years only adenoid tissue remains. As for adults, they often have a complete atrophy.
There are three degrees of development of adenoids:
- First degree. During the day, the child can breathe freely, but in a dream, when the adenoid volume increases (which is affected by the horizontal position), breathing becomes more complicated.
- The second degree. Children often experience snoring during sleep, so they breathe mouth almost round the clock.
- The third degree. This degree is characterized by complete or almost complete blockade of breathing by adenoid tissue. Air does not enter the windpipe from the nose, and children are forced to breathe only through the mouth.
Breathing through the mouth. Effects.
The inhalation of air with the mouth can lead to such unpleasant results as:
- pneumonia, bronchitis, laryngitis, chronic tonsillitis, tonsillitis;
- swelling of the nasal mucosa, violation of air circulation in the paranasal sinuses;
- hearing loss when the pharyngeal opening of the auditory tube is closed. As a result, children hear much worse. This can lead to chronic inflammation of the middle ear.
Medical practice shows that adenoids are often observed up to 10 years of age, both in boys and girls.
The causes of adenoids can be and infectious diseases, such as influenza, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, and other prerequisites. Often there is inflammation of the adenoids, which leads to the development of adenoiditis.
Adenoids are characterized by a permanent or periodic nasal congestion, with a secret secret from the nasal cavity. Children usually breathe through the mouth, so they sleep by opening it. Sleep is often accompanied by loud snoring, children sleep restlessly, often there are attacks of suffocation, due to the fact that the lower jaw hangs, and the root of the tongue sinks. If the adenoids have reached an excessively large size, there is a disruption of the phonation. The voice often becomes nasal. Holes of the auditory canals are closed by adenoids, which leads to a disruption of the normal ventilation of the tympanic cavities. As a result, hearing loss in children. Often this phenomenon is accompanied by inattention and absent-mindedness. Children always walk with their mouth open, when the lower jaw hangs, nasolabial folds are smoothed out, the hard palate becomes roof-shaped, and the teeth are deformed and are not arranged as planned by nature: the incisors start to bulge incorrectly. Sometimes there is an unpleasant phenomenon, like urinary incontinence at night.
Adenoids and folk methods of their treatment.
If adenoids of the second and third degrees are observed, then their removal is indicated.
For the treatment of adenoids, folk healers advise several recipes:
- Mother-and-stepmother (grass -1 part), turn (grass - 3 parts), St. John's wort (grass - 2 parts). Collect the mix, take a couple of table. spoons of this mixture of herbs, pour 1 glass of boiling water, insist on the thermos for about an hour, filter. Add a couple of drops of eucalyptus or fir oil. Bury the tincture in each nostril in quantities of up to 4 drops a couple of times a day.
- Currant (leaves - 1 table, lodges), chamomile (flowers - 2 tablespoons), calendula (flowers - 1 teaspoon), viburnum (flowers - 1 teaspoon), rosehip (fruits - 2 tablespoons .). All ingredients should be thoroughly mixed. Take a dining spoonful of collection, pour a glass of boiled water. In a thermos can withstand up to 8 hours and strain. Then add a couple drops of fir oil. Tincture should be instilled in each nostril 4 drops a couple of times a day.
- Oak (bark - 2 table spoons), St. John's Wort (grass - 1 tablespoon), mint (leaves - 1 table., Lodges). Mix everything, take about 1 teaspoon of herbal mixture, add 200 milliliters of water (cold), wait until the boil, boil for about 5 minutes. In the thermos we stand an hour, filter. To drip such infusion it is necessary on 2-5 droplets in each nostril a couple of times a day.
- Eucalyptus (leaf - 1 table, l.), Chamomile flowers (1 tablespoon), birch (leaf - 1 tea l.). All natural ingredients are well mixed, poured with boiling water (200 ml), we stand in the thermos for about an hour. Bury the tincture from the collection of a couple of drops of 2 times a day.
- Grate the grated (shallow) pre-peeled beets, squeeze the juice from it. For 1 cup of juice, add 1 table. l. honey and mix well. In each nostril we dig in three drops a day for 5 droplets. This course should be continued, approximately, 20 days, and the mixture should be stored in a cold place (refrigerator).
Today, laser therapy and washing with antiseptics are very popular, which are often prescribed by doctors. But these methods of treatment are not so effective in the treatment of chronic diseases. They are more suitable for weakening the acuteness of the inflammatory process of adenoiditis.
If even suddenly your child is shown surgery by the doctors, let her remain an extreme case. Try first to remove the inflammatory process of adenoids, and only then decide to remove them. The fact is that often doctors can not completely stop the infectious focus, which threatens with a protracted postoperative period and complications. It often happens that the adenoids grow back. This is due to the fact that during the operation, some part of the adenoid tissue may not be removed (it is impossible to foresee everything, because the nasopharyngeal form is individual in all), it (the tissue) starts to grow. In these cases, it is not advisable to do a second operation, doctors prefer a conservative way of treatment.
Adenoids and essential oils.
In adenoids, mint, juniper and cypress essential oils are used.
The aroma of oils is inhaled from the vials or pre-applied to cotton wool or cloth. It is necessary to inhale oils evenly and deeply. Inhalation by time is carried out up to 10 minutes. And the eyes advised to close with inhalations.
Tougal oil is digested 3 drops into each nostril a couple of times a day for 4 weeks.