Adenoids can grow not only at preschool age, but at any time, from the first days of life to puberty, but most often it occurs in the age range of 3 to 7 years. Until recently, the report that their son or daughter had adenoids terribly frightened young parents and caused great anxiety.
This was due to the fact that the treatment of this disease most often involved surgical intervention, which it was rather difficult for the child to transfer. Today, the medical approach to enlarged adenoids looks completely different. In most cases, modern treatment of adenoids in children is performed without surgery, and cardinal measures are taken only as a last resort. In this article, we will tell you in more detail how to get rid of this disease.
How to treat adenoids in children without surgery?
Every day more and more doctors and parents of small patients give their preference to an effective method that allows to do without an operation - treatment of adenoids in children with a laser. This procedure does not cause the crumbs any discomfort and very quickly and painlessly reduces the size of the enlarged lymphoid tissue, which allows the child to feel a noticeable relief of breathing.
In most modern medical clinics that deal with laser removal of adenoids in children, high-precision equipment is used. With his help, in 7-15 sessions of such a procedure you can completely forget about the presence of any health problems and completely return to the usual way of life.
The impact of the laser is always very well tolerated by the kids. The only thing that can cause inconvenience to young boys and girls is that the clinic has to come to the procedures every day, and during the session it is necessary to sit quietly and not move for several minutes. If your child has too restless character, it can cause him some difficulties.
After the course of treatment, which is from 7 to 15 procedures, depending on the severity of the condition of the small patient, it is recommended that 2-3 more similar courses be taken during the calendar year in order to avoid relapse.
In addition, if the adenoids have not grown too much, you can try to use some effective methods of traditional medicine, for example:
- washing of the nasopharynx with the decoction of the ovary or horsetail;
- instillation into each nostril of concentrated decoction of duckweed, tuya oil or walnut pericarp.
Drugs are also actively used in the treatment of adenoiditis in children, mostly to get rid of unpleasant symptoms and to relieve the condition of the baby. So, to relieve the feeling of nasal congestion and to ensure free air access, often used vasoconstrictor drops and sprays, such as "Vibrocil", "Nazivin" or "Galazolin."
If the cause of the disease is associated with an allergic reaction, antihistamines can additionally be used, for example, Zirtek, Tavegil or Fenistil.
It should be understood that although today in the treatment of adenoiditis operations are extremely rare, in some cases, they may be necessary. In particular, it is not necessary to refuse surgical intervention, if as a result of an ailment the baby had severe oxygen starvation, various maxillofacial anomalies or abnormal hearing loss. In all these cases, you should immediately consult a doctor and strictly follow all of his recommendations.