Ask Bao Dad: Do you like sleeping on your stomach at night? Drooling? Tossing and turning in bed while sleeping, restless sleep, night sweats, snoring and even breathing with your mouth open?
Always get a positive answer.
This is often a symptom of adenoidal hypertrophy in children during sleep. In addition, children may often have short stature, inattention, poor academic performance and adenoid face.
Why don't children with adenoid hypertrophy grow tall?
People's sleep is divided into deep sleep period and shallow sleep period. When people enter deep sleep, the body will secrete growth hormone, which will help the growth of children's height. Hyperplasia of adenoids leads to respiratory obstruction in children, especially in the sleep state, the airway obstruction is aggravated, and the oxygen supply to the brain is insufficient, which not only leads to children's restless sleep and reduces deep sleep, but also directly leads to hypoxia in the anterior pituitary gland secreting growth hormone, leading to a decrease in growth hormone secretion. This will not only affect the height of children, but also cause the decline of physical resistance, and also affect the development of children's intelligence.
Therefore, children's restless sleep, always tossing and turning, and even often waking up in their sleep are actually caused by lack of oxygen in the brain.
What about adenoidal hypertrophy? Do we have to have an operation?
Sleep disorder caused by adenoid hypertrophy also belongs to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The reason why this problem bothers many parents is that many children's symptoms are good and bad, which makes parents in a dilemma. When they are not well, they can't wait to have an operation at once. When it was good, they were glad they didn't have a hasty operation.
Many children go to the ear, nose and throat examination, adenoids are enlarged, and the posterior nasal passages are blocked by 40-50%. Usually the symptoms are not obvious, and I open my eyes a little when I sleep at most. Doctors don't recommend surgery, but only nasal spray or nasal washing, so parents don't care too much. But after a few years, the children are obviously shorter than their peers. ...
In fact, adenoidal hypertrophy is by no means the only way to go, and surgery can't solve all the problems of children with adenoidal hypertrophy. Dr. Li has treated many cases of recurrence of adenoids and tonsils after operation, and some of them have been cut (scraped) more than once.
There is nothing superfluous in a person's body. You can't cut off your finger if it is inflamed and swollen, can you? Adenoids and tonsils are both immune organs of human body, which play an important role in resisting the invasion of viruses and bacteria. When there is a problem, you don't consider the cause of the problem, but simply cut in rudely. For western medicine, this is just a last resort.
How does TCM treat adenoidal hypertrophy?
Adenoid hypertrophy, in fact, has no special corresponding disease name in Chinese medicine (it is classified as nasal smothering disease in modern times), so the problem that children with adenoid hypertrophy don't grow up is not well understood by the ancients and rarely described by doctors in past dynasties.
How to understand and treat adenoidal hypertrophy with traditional Chinese medicine? After a long period of clinical and thinking, Dr. Li came up with a set of his own views and treatment plans. I'm here to tell you briefly. Haha, why can't you elaborate? Because I talked about some colleagues in detail, I learned all the tricks I worked hard to learn ...)
Chinese medicine believes that height is mainly determined by kidney essence and kidney qi, and kidney belongs to water and is congenital. Under normal circumstances, height is mainly determined by the essence in the kidney (congenital inheritance).
Adenoids are located in the posterior nasal meatus and belong to the lungs of traditional Chinese medicine. Personally, most adenoid hypertrophy has a basic pathogenesis, that is, spleen and lung deficiency, lung meridian heat depression, phlegm and dampness resistance.
Lung belongs to gold, kidney belongs to water, and gold gives birth to water. Therefore, the lung is the mother of the kidney, and the mother's illness is easy to hurt the child. Therefore, it is difficult for lung doctors to use kidney qi to play normal physiological functions, which leads to the situation that children are not tall.
Therefore, in the treatment of adenoid hypertrophy, we can focus on conditioning the lungs and kidneys, and add Polygonatum, Cornus officinalis, Dioscorea opposita, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli and so on. To the basic side, so as to achieve the purpose of "golden water coexistence".
Generally speaking, early children are treated and intervened in time when they are still young, and their height is still better. In the later period, especially when the child is ten years old, it is more difficult. But can it be saved? Personal experience has proved that accurate prescription and medication not only have no toxic side effects, but also have unexpected effects than injection of growth hormone.