▲Pregnant feeding and starting to eat blocky food within six months are the key to a baby's beautiful face and healthy respiratory tract. (Photo/Provided by Times)
Text/Zhao Zheyang
Prevention is the best treatment: the symptoms of children's snoring need to be treated as soon as possible, but why is the child's nasal passage narrowed? Will your chin become smaller? Why does the tongue have problems with its strength and are so severe that it causes sleep breathing to stop? Why do children with severe snoring have enlarged adenoids and tonsils?
Oral function is abnormal, the throat airway will become narrow
According to an academic report published by Dr. Christin Guilleminault, an authoritative diagnosis and treatment of pediatric sleep breathing apnea at Stanford University in the United States, and Dr. Huang Yushu, a physician in Chang Gung Hospital in Taiwan, the report repeatedly mentioned that "oral function abnormality causes structural abnormalities in the size of the upper respiratory tract", that is, children will have narrow throat airways. The key is that many oral functions such as chewing, swallowing, and breathing are abnormal.
The reason for the abnormal oral function is that when modern children are born, they drink formula milk by holding a bottle to replace breast milk sucking and eating soft and refined food. They lack sucking and chewing, and lack of tongue muscle strength and chewing muscles, resulting in poor facial development of the mouth and jaw, poor oral function, the nose will be blocked, and the function will become worse. Finally, they need to breathe with their mouth. If the child is trained to properly suck and chew oral functions from an early age, these problems can be prevented before they occur.
▲The ability of a cow to chew food. (Photo/Provided by Times)
Prevention: Children should train oral function as soon as they are born
The following is a simple illustration of the period of growth, development and functional development of children. I specifically indicate the peak time of upper and lower mandibular development. Traditional dental correction is done after the child is replaced with permanent teeth columns. It is easier to evaluate whether the tooth arrangement space is sufficient to determine whether the tooth should be extracted and which teeth should be extracted.
▲Simplified diagram of the period of child growth, development and functional development. (Photo/Times Publishing)
In fact, dentate arrhythmia is the result of abnormal jaw bone development. Therefore, to solve dentate arrhythmia or occlusal misalignment, we should start by improving the development of the upper and lower jaw bones around the teeth, and the teeth will naturally have enough space to arrange them. As more devices that can help gum expansion are developed, the direction of correction has gradually changed, mainly starting with promoting the development of upper and lower jaw bones.
If the child is born, parents can guide the child to the following points. The child will definitely have a healthy gum and do not have to spend a lot of time doing orthodontics in the future, as well as nasal congestion, snoring, and sleep breathing interruption caused by abnormal jaw development:
1. Proper breastfeeding within six months.
2. Start eating side food in four months.
3. Can eat blocky food for six months.
4. After six months, gradually feed with blocky food with breast milk.
5. Three years old: The baby teeth have completely germinated and are able to eat hard foods such as nuts.
6. Four years old: Parents help their children check their teeth, nose and mouth:
(1) The incisors of the baby teeth should have gaps between teeth. If there are no gaps between teeth, it means that the gums are too narrow.
(2) Canine teeth should be worn, that is, when chewing, the teeth will grind the food "like a cow chewing food". If the canine teeth are pointed and not worn out, it means that the child will quickly bite the food up and down when chewing. In the future, after changing the permanent teeth, the teeth will be uneven or toothed .
(3) Are there any symptoms related to nasal congestion, colds, breathing with the mouth, dark circles, snoring, and sleep breathing cessation.
This article is excerpted from "Beware! Snoring, children's health alert" /Zhu Jiahong (Director of Taichung Xingjian Orthopedic Clinic)/Times Published
