Children snore less, but we must not relax. Because there are many reasons for 3-year-old children snoring, we should understand the reasons and treat them in time. Now let me introduce the causes and treatment of 3-year-old snoring. I hope I can help you.
Causes of snoring in 3-year-old children
1. Poor sleep posture
For example, when the baby sleeps on his back, the root of his tongue falls back due to gravity, and the respiratory passage is partially blocked. When the air flows in and out of the nasal cavity, oropharynx and throat, the nearby mucosa or muscles vibrate and snore. Let the child sleep in a comfortable position first. For snoring babies, try sleeping with their head on their side or lying on their stomach (that is, one side of the face is close to the bed surface, but do not cover their mouth and nose), so that the tongue will not hang back too much to block the breathing channel.
2. Heredity
If parents have abnormal jaws and narrow respiratory tract, as is usually the case with their children, breathing will be hindered during sleep. This is determined by genetic factors and generally cannot be solved. But parents don't have to worry. In this case, children's sleep and snoring will not affect their health.
3. Obesity
The soft meat structure of the fat baby's pharynx is relatively thick. When sleeping, the oropharyngeal airway is easy to be blocked, snoring occurs, and even apnea occurs in severe cases. Obese babies should find ways to lose weight, make the soft meat of the oropharynx thin, and the breathing pipe diameter is unobstructed, so that the breathing will become smoother than before.
4. Respiratory tract inflammation
Inflammation of the upper respiratory tract and chronic sinusitis will cause congestion and edema of the child's nasal mucosa, abnormal hypertrophy of the tonsil proliferator, obstruction of the ventilation of the nasopharynx, and inability to breathe through the nose during sleep. Therefore, snoring with breathing occurs. This situation belongs to pathological reasons. Parents should take their children to see a doctor in time. After the disease is cured, the number of children sleeping and snoring will gradually decrease or even disappear.
5. Adenoid hypertrophy
Adenoids are located at the last end of the nostrils. Some babies' adenoids proliferate slowly with age. When hypertrophic glands block the nasopharynx, snoring will occur. After a child enters puberty, most adenoids will disappear. At this time, the phenomenon of sleeping and snoring will naturally disappear.
6. Narrow nasal passage
The baby's pharyngeal cavity is short, the nasal tract is narrow, and it is easy to block if there is a slight secretion or mucosal swelling. Babies within half a year old often have nasal sounds, stuffy noses or phlegm sounds in their throat, which is caused by this reason. As the baby grows up, the development of the nasal cavity will gradually improve, the narrow nasal tract will gradually disappear, and the child will no longer snore when sleeping.
Treatment of snoring in 3-year-old children
1. Physical examination on time.
Babies should have regular physical examination, especially those under the age of three. They should often test their basic physical indicators. Once they are found to have physical abnormalities, they should be treated in time. If your baby snores frequently, you should also go to the hospital for examination in time. If it is caused by other diseases, you should seize the time for treatment to avoid aggravating the condition or causing other more serious diseases.
2. Pay attention to diet.
To ensure the healthy growth of the baby, scientific diet is the key, especially for the lactating baby. Its main nutrition comes from breast milk, which can not improve all the nutrition needed for the baby. As the baby grows up, it is necessary to increase other nutrition. It can be fed with nutritious foods such as meat and vegetables. In order to help the baby digest, the vegetables can be squeezed into vegetable juice, Or make the meat into meat stuffing and then give it to the baby. In addition, the protein content of breast milk is high, which is easy to cause the baby to get angry, so you should give the baby an appropriate amount of food to remove the fire, such as fruit.
3. Develop good sleep habits.
The baby should develop good sleep habits from an early age. Try to teach the baby to sleep on his back or side. Don't sleep on his stomach. When sleeping, the height of the pillow should be appropriate and don't sleep with his head covered.
Common problems of snoring
1. How about your sleep quality
Some people will ask, "I've slept for more than ten hours and still feel sleepy, while some people are energetic and refreshed after sleeping for four or five hours. Why?" This is the problem of sleep quality. Sleep quality mainly depends on the amount of deep sleep in phase 3 and 4. If you sleep in phase 3 and 4 for a short time, or even very little, and mainly sleep in phase 1 and 2 for more than ten hours, you will still feel tired and sleepy. If you have long deep sleep and less sleep in phase 1 and 2, you can still be energetic and healthy even if you only sleep five or six hours. Therefore, sleep focuses on quality, not time.
If you want to know your sleep quality, you can monitor it in detail by using polysomnography.
2. Under what circumstances should sleep diseases be considered
Unhealthy sleep conditions include snoring, mouth opening breathing, and even temporary cessation of breathing. Keep awake repeatedly during sleep and have restless sleep. Angina pectoris and arrhythmia often occur at night. Headache and dizziness after waking up, and high blood pressure after waking up in the morning. Fatigue and weakness during the day, drowsiness, drowsiness, and even falling asleep during work meetings or driving. Memory decline, slow response, work and learning ability decline. Decreased sexual function, impotence, etc. If the above manifestations occur, sleep diseases or obstructive apnea syndrome should be highly considered. First, the pharynx should be examined in the otolaryngology department and polysomnography should be carried out.
3. Snoring is also a disease
Snoring patients used to think it was sleeping incense, but now people have come to realize that it may be a morbid disease. Snorers are often complained by others, and the relationship with their roommate or spouse becomes extremely tense, which annoys snorers. However, the greater harm of snoring is to cause apnea. The snorer's airway is narrower than that of the normal person. When the airway is serious, the airway can be completely obstructed, apnea occurs. When the apnea is *, the gas can not enter the lungs, causing hypoxia and carbon dioxide retention in the body. Severe cases can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, arrhythmia, cerebrovascular accident, diabetes, kidney disease, hypothyroidism, etc., and even sudden death in sleep.
4. What is the mechanism of snoring
The airway of snorers is usually narrower than that of normal people. When awake during the day, the compensatory contraction of throat muscles keeps the airway open without blockage. However, when sleeping at night, the nerve excitability decreases, the muscles relax, and the pharyngeal tissue is blocked, resulting in the collapse of the upper airway. When the air flow passes through the narrow part, it will produce vortex and cause vibration, resulting in snoring. In severe cases, the breathing can be stopped temporarily, thus affecting people's health. In addition, there are a few people because of central reasons.
5. Common causes of snoring and apnea
Respiratory tract stenosis caused by various reasons, mainly the upper respiratory tract stenosis above the tracheal plane, can cause snoring and even apnea, including nasal stenosis caused by deviation of nasal septum and nasal polyps. Pharyngeal stenosis: tonsil hypertrophy, pharyngeal relaxation, uvula is too long. Hypertrophy of tongue body, tumor of tongue root and suffix of tongue cause pharyngeal stenosis. Maxillofacial developmental deformity, such as small jaw deformity, obesity. Children are mostly due to tonsil hypertrophy and adenoid hypertrophy.
6. What about snoring?
If snoring patients want to know their sleep quality, how many times they have apnea during sleep, how long they pause each time, the oxygen content in blood during sleep, the change of heart rate during sleep, you only need to do one night's polysomnography monitoring. Polysomnography has been considered as an important examination for snoring patients. It can detect the EEG, ECG and EMG of patients during night sleep, Dynamic observation of oral and nasal airflow, blood oxygen saturation and heart rate, so as to understand the impact of snoring on the body, and then guide the treatment of snoring.
8. General treatment of snoring
The treatment of snoring patients should be different according to different reasons. The choice of treatment method is the most important factor to determine the treatment effect. We will talk about the main methods of treating snoring in four times. First, general treatment. Weight loss: obesity is one of the factors causing pharyngeal stenosis. Weight loss can reduce the degree of airway obstruction. Smoking cessation and alcohol: smoking can stimulate pharyngeal inflammation and cause pharyngeal edema and stenosis. Wine can relax muscles and make the root of the tongue fall back, thus aggravating obstruction. In addition, disobedience to sedative sleeping pills before going to bed and sleeping on your side are all good for snoring.
9. Drug therapy for snoring
Modern medical research has confirmed that the main causes of snoring are stenosis and obstruction in the nose, nasopharynx, oropharynx, soft palate and tongue root. In addition, the relaxation of pharyngeal soft tissue and the falling back of tongue root during sleep lead to the inability of air flow to pass freely through the airway of pharynx. At present, there are many drugs that can treat snoring at home and abroad. Acetazolamide and thyroxine tablets promote metabolism and have a certain effect. They can be relieved to a certain extent during medication, but they can not be cured.
10. Surgical treatment of snoring
Different surgical methods should be selected according to the plane of obstruction. For example, patients with nasal obstruction should undergo nasal surgery to make the nasal tract unobstructed. Patients with pharyngeal stenosis can undergo palatopharyngoplasty. This operation is mainly through the removal of part of the uvula and tonsil to increase the pharyngeal space, so as to treat snoring. It is the most commonly used surgical method for the treatment of snoring and sleep apnea. Its success depends on the choice of surgical patients. In addition, patients with small jaws are easy to fall back and can undergo orthognathic surgery.