Vegetation operation, when it should be done and in what it consists
It's time to sleep, the boy snores. It's time to wake up and have bad breath. He also usually breathes with his mouth open and when he speaks he seems to have a blocked nose even though he does not have snot. Several symptoms that usually lead to a diagnosis: vegetations, a diagnosis that often requires surgical intervention.
Now, as with any intervention of this kind, many doubts arise, beginning with the question of whether there is no alternative treatment that is not as invasive as an operation. When should you proceed like this? What is the natural evolution after this performance? These are some of the explanations given by pediatricians to those parents with children diagnosed with vegetations.
What are vegetations
In the first place, it is necessary to explain what the vegetations consist of. Pediatricians define vegetations as a more extensive part of an organ that draws a kind of circle that surrounds the area of the throat through which food passes. When the adenoids of this part of the body grow more than the account, can be considered that we are before a case of vegetations.
The pediatricians explain that all the children have vegetations, since these organs fulfill a function of analysis of all strange body that enters the body through the mouth. However, it is the size of these adenoids and the pharynx where they are located that determine if they cause any type of problem in the patient. Experts also clarify that there may be growth of this area of the throat in periods of colds or because of an infection.
How to determine the size of the adenoids
At what point is it determined that the adenoids are affecting the little ones in the house? It will be necessary to pay attention to the symptom - snoring, difficulty swallowing, bad breath, stuffy nose - and in others like ear infections or sudden runny noses without a cold. In these cases, the child must be taken to a otolaryngologist to evaluate this patient.
Due to its location the adenoids must be evaluated by means of an X-ray since they can not be seen through visual diagnosis. You can also perform a sleep test to assess how the vegetations affect the rest of the smallest of the house. Once confirmed that the size of these elements of the body are affecting the child, we must assess whether to intervene surgically.
When do you have to operate
These factors must be taken into account when deciding whether to fit operate or not. The first one is the size of the adenoids, if these exceed the recommended measures and affect the quality of life of the child, we must intervene. Other matters that indicate that vegetations must be removed through this action are episodes of He drowned during sleep, prolonged presence of ear and throat infections that are not resolved with antibiotics.
Ultimately it will be the otolaryngologist who decides whether to operate. This surgical intervention consists of the reduction in size of the adenoids and not in their total extirpation. For this reason it is possible that after the first operation is required another months or years later for a new recovery of the measures of these bodies.
If the operation is successful, after a few days the child will breathe well through the nose and no longer have to open his mouth to be able to take a breath. Most stop snoring and change their nasal voice to a more acute tone. If there were previously more serious complications of the adenoidal hypertrophy, these revert rapidly after the adenoidectomy.
Damián Montero
