What is the best treatment for snoring in children?

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Snoring in children, also known as obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome in children, is mainly caused by adenoid hypertrophy and tonsillar hypertrophy blocking the upper airway, resulting in obstructive airway gas exchange and decreased blood oxygen content during sleep, resulting in brain hypoxia and cardiovascular dysfunction. At the same time, it affects children's maxillofacial development, complicated with secretory otitis media, and even sensorineural deafness, It is harmful to children's physical and intellectual development. Now I'd like to introduce the best treatment for snoring in children?

What is the best treatment for snoring in children?

Severe snoring and sleep apnea syndrome should be treated by surgery to remove the soft tissue that obstructs the respiratory tract. However, six months after surgery to pay attention to monitoring the situation of snoring, to see if there is a tendency to relapse.

Children with mild snoring can use children's intelligent snoring pillow, monitor the snoring of children's colleagues, and lie on their side to make the soft tissue blocking the respiratory tract fall to one side, so as to open the respiratory tract to the greatest extent and improve the snoring situation.

It is very necessary to monitor children's snoring and sleep, whether it is postoperative observation or prevention of the development of sleep apnea. The most advanced algorithm in China is the neural network method for snoring recognition.

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Control your child's weight. Sleep medicine experts point out that weight loss is the most fundamental treatment. Research shows that as long as you lose 3-5kg, you can effectively control snoring. Try to sleep on your child's side. Lying on your back will increase the frequency of snoring. It's better to sleep on your side. Because when sleeping on your back, it's easy for your tongue to slide to the back and block your throat. In addition, also pay attention to the child's pillow is not too low, so easy to make chin up, resulting in mouth breathing, leading to snoring. Avoid tranquilizers before going to bed. Sedatives tend to cause muscle relaxation, making snoring more serious. Train your child to breathe deeply. This can keep the nasal passage smooth and reduce snoring. Make children smile often. Smiling often helps to stretch the tongue muscles and reduce snoring. Let the children sing in their spare time. Studies have shown that singing more can improve snoring, because singing can exercise the sound.