Children may also have snoring problems, but snoring children causes have somehow difficult. Here we provide the common snoring children causes.

The incidence of snoring do not apparent age difference in the population, however, as children are at the stage of growth and development, with different physical characteristics of adults, so the pathogenesis of snoring children also have their own characteristics. Statistics show that children snoring have the exclusive causes. But mainly due to the narrowing or occlusion of the anatomical parts of the upper respiratory tract.

1. Lesions of the nasal cavity , pharynx and larynx

Anterior nostril stenosis or atresia, nasal septum deviation, nasal polyps, hypertrophic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, nasal tumor; nasopharyngitis, adenoidal hypertrophy, nasopharyngeal atresia or stenosis, large tonsils on Pakistan, too uvula long or hypertrophy, throat cancer, pharyngeal muscle paralysis; epiglottitis, the epiglottis cyst, epiglottis cancer, supraglottic edema, vocal cord paralysis, laryngeal Egypt, laryngeal cartilage softening; and neck, thyroid and other primary or metastatic mass oppression.

2. Oral lesions

Staggering impact of tongue lesions, such as macroglossia, tongue cancer, tongue base ectopic thyroid gland, mucous edema secondary to increased tongue, cleft palate using pharyngeal flap in some patients.

3. Congenital maxillofacial malformations

• Piene

Robin syndrome, characterized by a small jaw, neck cracking, tongue hanging.

• Prader

Willi syndrome, primarily manifested as dysphagia, obesity, facial abnormalities, sexual dysfunction, mental retardation.

• Down syndrome

Have low and flat nose, the award hypoplasia, a small circle under the collar, high waist bow, mental retardation and so on.

• Treacher

C011ins syndrome, manifested as lower jaw and facial bone hypoplasia, as dangerous defects, abnormal supraorbital margin, small jaw, the amount of bone surface subsidence, lumbar fracture, deformity of epiglottis and ear malformations.

• Crouzon syndrome

There are craniofacial bone hypoplasia, low nasal bridge width, hook nose and nostrils, nasal cavity narrow, nasal septum deviation, the leading subsidence, shortening the upper lip, hard palate Gong, and other large and prominent mandible.

• Hurler

Scheie syndrome, the clinical features range between Hurler syndrome and Scheie syndrome, with characteristics of the cheek retraction (small jaw), symptoms of mental retardation, wiping Confucianism’s disease, multiple bone hypoplasia, corneal opacity, deafness and so on.

4. Systemic diseases

Increased tongue caused by acromegaly , thyroid dysfunction induced myxedema, chronic lymphocytic leukemia of angina.

Children snoring have great influence to children’s growth and development, particularly the impact of the brain and other vital organs. Give serious impact to children ‘s normal life , therefore, parents should pay more attention to children’s snoring problems.

To children, snoring may do enormous harm to the children. It first will cause changes in sleep time, make continuity of sleep disruption and declined sleep quality .

The sleep state, especially deep sleep state, is the time the child brain will release large amounts of growth hormone which  promote the child growth and development of various body systems. Once the decline in sleep quality is bound to make the release of growth hormone decreased, affecting development, such as the sub-dwarf and so on.

In addition, adequate sleep for children’s development of the nervous system is essential, sleep disorders often cause the brain of a hypoxic state, not only the intellectual development of children is not good, may also affect other aspects of the brain, even the heart.

Children’s bones, chest expansion, pulmonary function are in the process of growth and development, in case of sleep-disordered breathing, chest expansion increases the negative pressure may result in a slight deformity, leading further disease risks.

In many people’s minds, snoring seem to be an adult thing, in fact, there are snoring children. If children noticeable snoring, restless sleep, frequent awakening and so on during sleep, will easily lead to children’s daytime fatigue, easy to doze off, unable to focus on school, academic decline and even symptoms of mental behavior disorder, parents should be cautious of children with snoring attacks.

The incidence of children with snoring and found children aged 2-6 in his sleep snoring prevalence rate of 5.5%, accompanied by sleep apnea incidence of 0.19%, 0.6% of children sleeping breath when the mouth opening. The study can represent the major cities in China the incidence of children with snoring results show that snoring and apnea in children is not uncommon.

Relative to adults,  the cause of children snoring relatively clear, the vast majority of the tonsil and adenoid vegetation due. Some children are due to different causes of obesity and snoring occurs.

Promotion of child growth and development of growth hormone, mainly in a state of deep sleep at night secretion of children suffering from snoring due to the poor quality of sleep, reach deep sleep, the general will appear short stature, mental retardation, inability to concentrate,irritability and hyperactivity, do not love to learn and so on. For infants and young children, the nervous system in the developmental stages, is very sensitive to hypoxia, once because of severe apnea attacks frequently lead to hypoxia and metabolic disorders, can easily cause irreversible brain damage.

When children snoring nasopharyngeal obstruction due to long-term mouth breathing, causing the upper and lower teeth bite is not normal, over time, often leading to facial deformity and development, may affect the child’s physical and mental development in the future. Children’s upper airway blockage is apt to cause sinusitis, or otitis media, and recurrent seizures, prolonged unhealed.

The diagnosis of children with snoring, it is necessary to find out by asking children whether the parents of children with nighttime snoring, mouth breathing, shortness of breath, hold back awake, hyperactivity, and inattention, growth retardation, enuresis and other history, so parents daily should carefully observe the situation and daytime sleep of children with a number of activities.