Snoring Children Causes
April16th,2010Children 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
- Prader
- Down syndrome
- Treacher
- Crouzon syndrome
- Hurler
Robin syndrome, characterized by a small jaw, neck cracking, tongue hanging.
Willi syndrome, primarily manifested as dysphagia, obesity, facial abnormalities, sexual dysfunction, mental retardation.
Have low and flat nose, the award hypoplasia, a small circle under the collar, high waist bow, mental retardation and so on.
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.
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.
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.