For children, obesity can lead to pharyngeal stenosis, which in turn leads to pharyngeal inflammatory membrane hypertrophy and respiratory tract obstruction. In turn, it leads to snoring, so children should maintain a healthy body and pay attention to avoiding excessive weight loss in diet. In addition, obesity may bring other negative effects. Therefore, parents should make their children nutritionally balanced and not obese.
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Snoring is a common sleep phenomenon. During sleep, when the upper respiratory airflow passes through, it impacts the secretions on the edge of pharyngeal mucosa and the surface of mucosa, causing vibration and snoring. Its location starts from nasopharynx and includes soft palate, uvula, tonsil and its palatopharyngeal arch, palatoglossal arch, tongue root, pharyngeal muscle and pharyngeal mucosa. Snoring can make sleep breathing pause repeatedly, cause cerebral blood hypoxia and induce various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Diet control: body mass index >; 24% obese patients should be instructed to lose weight, control the total calorie intake and choose a reasonable diet to lose weight. Give priority to light vegetarian diet, eat less fat and animal offal, choose fish, lean meat, milk and beans, and choose fresh vegetables with high vitamin and cellulose content; It is advisable to eat iodine-containing foods with lipid-lowering effect, such as kelp and seaweed; Avoid pickled products and limit the intake of sodium salt. Pay attention to the ration of diet, don't overeat, distribute the three meals reasonably, so as to "eat well early, eat well in the middle and eat less at night", give priority to dinner, drink less juice and carbonated drinks, and reduce entertainment and supper.
Drinking and smoking can aggravate patients' breathing disorders at night, and advise patients to quit smoking and drinking or reduce their drinking, so as to ensure that they do not drink alcohol within 3 hours before going to bed. Let patients know the specific methods of quitting smoking and drinking, strengthen supervision, encourage patients more and enhance their determination.
Closely and continuously monitor the patient's respiratory state. Corticosteroids or antibiotics and cool and moist oxygen were given to relieve edema of palate and tongue. Laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy are needed to eliminate airway obstruction or to conduct sleep research. The most common causes of snoring and breathing in children are eye, nasal cavity, tonsil, secondary adenoid hypertrophy or foreign body obstruction.