What if the baby has a hoarse voice?

Vocal cords of a small child are very fragile and tender. Therefore, such a phenomenon, as a hoarse voice, is widespread among infants and toddlers. What is the cause of this ailment and how to deal with it, every parent should know.

Why hoarse voice in an infant?

Hoarseness is the result of swelling of the vocal cords. A woman's voice can become hoarse because of the excessive tension of the vocal cords with frequent and prolonged crying. However, more serious causes of malaise are possible: as a rule, they are associated with inflammatory processes in the body or neoplasms in the nasopharynx. If the baby has not shouted for a long time, but he still has hoarseness, consult a doctor: treating the newborn "on the hunch" can lead to bad consequences.

Fallen voice in a baby without temperature: causes

Often from the age of two months, the child's hoarse voice appears, with no increase in temperature. Absence of hyperthermia and other symptoms of ARVI indicates that the reason for a hoarse voice is the frequent and violent cries of the baby, especially if the air is overdried. Parents who take advice from the popular pediatrician Spock in the eighties and do not rock the children before going to bed, and also do not fit during the baby's nightly awakening, a hoarse child is a common occurrence. The desire to accustom the baby to independence from diapers leads to disorders of the nervous system, which are aggravated during adulthood, as well as to prolonged hoarseness of the voice. In case of overexertion of ligaments, the child's voice becomes hoarse because of the bubbles arising in the soft tissues of the ligamentous apparatus. If nothing is done to restore the child's voice, the bubbles form nodules that protrude into the larynx and do not allow the vocal cords to close tightly.

A hoarse voice and a strong cough in the child

When the child's voice becomes hoarse with the appearance of a cough, there is every reason to suspect the initial stage of ARVI. Cold infections often cause swelling of ligaments, both in children and in adolescents. Their main cause - the decline of immunity due to hypothermia, manifested due to circulatory disorders and malfunctions in the work of thermoregulation centers.

With infection and inflammation in the larynx, laryngitis appears - the most common cause of pathological hoarseness in children. Depending on the form, this disease can have different consequences:

• The cataract is the safest. Passes with a rare dry cough and strong salivation.
• Hypertrophic - characterized by thickening of the vocal cords in connection with the proliferation of inflamed tissue. Cough is strong, frequent and dry, with a sensation of a foreign body in the larynx.
• Atrophic - the final stage of chronic laryngitis, during which there is sclerosis of the larynx, including the vocal cords. The cough is painful, with heavily separated mucus.
• Stenosing (false groats) is a separate pediatric form, which is dangerous for the health of the child.

It is also worth mentioning that laryngotracheitis may appear as a result of an allergic reaction, so when symptoms appear, check the child for sensitivity to a variety of irritants.

Hoarse voice in a child: causes and treatment

A hushed voice without temperature in most cases passes without special intervention by the parents. If you want to speed up the recovery process and protect the child from hoarseness in the future, use an air humidifier in the house and teach the child to drink more often to protect the ligaments from drying out. When age allows, teach your child to observe preventive silence. If the child has a hoarse voice because of a cold, the treatment consists in preventive measures and medicamentous effects on the disease. You can treat the neck in such ways:

• an oil solution of chlorophyllipt - to smear a pacifier or tongue 5 times a day;
• plentiful warm drink with milk or currant;
• in severe cases - antibiotics, but only according to the doctor's prescription.

Whatever the reason for the child's hoarse voice is, it's better not to let her arise. Take care of your children and be healthy!