Why does the baby snore when sleeping?
Causes that can explain why a child snores in a dream, there is quite a lot. Meanwhile, the most basic of them is a common cold and all kinds of colds. If there is a stuffy nose and snot that secrete from the nasal passages, unexpected snoring arose in most cases does not surprise young parents and does not cause them anxiety.
Moms and dads perfectly understand that it is difficult for the crumb to breathe through the nose, which is why characteristic sounds resemble snoring. Normally, this phenomenon disappears after the final recovery of the baby, but if this does not happen, you should show the crumb to the doctor-otolaryngologist.
Nevertheless, most mothers are interested in the question of why a baby snores in a dream when it does not have snot. This situation is observed in a number of cases, for example:
- The most common cause is adenoids. In this disease, lymphoid tissue is overgrown, thereby creating a mechanical obstacle in the air path. At night, when the baby is sleeping, the muscles of his throat relax, and its lumen is correspondingly narrowed, resulting in snoring.
- Older children may become obese because of snoring . When a child weighs several times more than normal, the fat tissue begins to be deposited not only in the subcutaneous fat, but also in the soft tissues of the pharynx, as a result of which the lumen narrows.
- If such a situation is observed in the maternity hospital, perhaps the reason why a newborn baby snores is covered in a congenital anomaly of the development of the bones of the skull.
Thus, it should be understood that the occurrence of snoring in childhood in the absence of nasal congestion is not a variant of the norm. If the baby does not catch cold, but suddenly begins to snore in sleep, or the snoring does not stop, despite the fact that the child has already recovered, - necessarily show it to the doctor.