(Correspondent Li Han) snores even more when sleeping at night. The 4-year-old girl is significantly lower in height and weight than her peers. She went to the hospital for sleep monitoring and found that she would hold her breath once every 1 minute on average, and the apnea index exceeded that of her peers 58 times. The doctor helped her cure her sleep and breathing disorder through adenoidectomy. On October 17, the girl's sleep returned to normal and her height and weight improved significantly.
4-year-old girl Qiqi lives in Wuchang . She has a weak constitution since childhood and often catches colds and has been treated repeatedly for more than half a year. Since last year, her parents have found that she snored more and more frequently when she was sleeping, and even snoring all night long and often woke up. During this year's kindergarten physical examination, her height and weight are lower than her peers. Three months ago, the anxious parents took Qiqi to Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University for treatment. After sleep monitoring at the Sleep Medical Center, Qiqi's parents were shocked: during the 9-hour sleep time, Qiqi's blood oxygen value was lower than the normal value; the hourly apnea and hypoventilation (AHI index) exceeded 58, which means that the average breath will be held once a minute every minute during sleep, which is more than 58 times the normal value of peers. After further examination, Qiqi's bilateral tonsil hypertrophy blocked the airway and had a long-term lack of oxygen in her sleep. Professor Chen Xiong, director of the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Zhongnan Hospital, performed Qiqi's surgery and successfully removed her hypertrophic adenoids and tonsils.
The day after surgery, Qiqi's sleep quality improved significantly, and the frequency and duration of snoring decreased significantly. On October 17, Qiqi, who was three months after the operation, went to the hospital for a follow-up examination. All sleep indicators completely returned to normal, and her height and weight also improved significantly.
Yang Xiuping, a doctor at the Sleep Medicine Center of Zhongnan Hospital and an internationally registered polysomnography technician (RPSGT), analyzed that Qiqi has repeatedly caught a cold, and the immune organs such as tonsils are "stimulated" for a long time, which can easily cause tonsil inflammation or hypertrophy. The "sewments" caused by this cold are often easily ignored by parents. The hypertrophy of tonsils blocks the airway, causing sleep breathing disorders and leading to growth and development delays.
"Most of children's snoring when sleeping is caused by tonsillar and adenoid hypertrophy, which can be solved through surgery." Yang Xiuping said that snoring not only affects children's cognitive ability, physical development, behavioral temperament, but also makes their appearance ugly. Once parents find out, they must pay attention and intervene as soon as possible.
