Treatment of adenoids in children folk remedies

Adenoids in a child bring a lot of trouble and anxiety to parents. The main question is whether you need to have surgery or you can get by with conservative treatment. Is it necessary to give the child a lot of pharmacy drugs or adenoids can be cured at home with the use of alternative medicine, parents ask. We will try to answer this question.

Adenoids are an increase in the nasopharyngeal tonsil, which is also called the palatine. This disease causes a violation of nasal breathing up to the complete lack of the ability to breathe through the nose. Often, adenoids cause pathological hearing loss in a child.

Children more often than adults suffer from viral infections, since their immunity is not fully formed, it is immature. It is clear that adenoids, which are in the forefront of the body’s natural defense, “get” more than other participants in the immune process. This explains the wide spread of the disease among children, especially between the ages of 3 and 7 years.

Inflammation causes the growth of lymphoid tissue, the amygdala thickens. According to how much it is modified, doctors determine the extent of the disease.

• First degree The amygdala is enlarged, the growth is insignificant, does not exceed half the lumen. Nasal breathing disturbed slightly.
• Second degree The nasopharyngeal tonsil has grown so large that it covers two or three lumens. Nasal breathing is significantly impaired.
• Third degree The pharyngeal tonsil is inflamed and enlarged, nasal breathing is absent, as it closes the lumen almost entirely.

Adenitis in acute form is accompanied by fever, sometimes mucous or purulent nasal discharge appears, but attentive parents will never miss the first and main symptom - the baby’s nose does not breathe. Chronic disease is accompanied by chronic dry cough, unproductive (without sputum), aggravated at night. In all cases, the child's voice changes, he begins to "nasal." In most cases, the child's facial expressions change, a “adenoid mask” appears, which is characterized by a parted mouth, facial muscle relaxation, drooling.

The pharyngeal tonsil has absolutely all children a barrier function, but not every child is inflamed. Doctors say that children have a certain predisposition to adenoitis. Most often, ENT doctors make such a diagnosis for babies who are hereditarily predisposed to allergies (mom or dad are chronic allergies). Often, adenoids torture children with reduced immunity, especially those living in ecologically unfavorable areas, often suffering from acute respiratory viral infections and influenza. Often this disease is the result of improper treatment of rhinitis, tracheitis, tonsillitis and other ENT diseases.

Very rarely, the disease has a congenital character, when the growth of the tonsil occurred in the womb. According to medical statistics, the likelihood of such a pathology increases among pregnant smokers and mothers who, while carrying a baby, continue to work in hazardous production or use medicines uncontrollably.

Dr. Komarovsky will tell you about what difficulties arise in pediatric adenoids and how to treat in this case in the next video.

If a child has chronic adenoids, they are treated mainly conservatively with the use of nasal and throat washing, instillation of glucocorticoid drugs. In this case, the child is recommended a special diet, special climatic conditions, as well as physiotherapy.

With the nose almost always blocked with adenoids, the child breathes through the mouth. At first glance, it is not scary. In fact, during oral breathing in the baby, the mucous membranes of the respiratory organs dry up. This causes frequent morbidity, inflammatory processes in the respiratory system. Difficulties with normal breathing also lead to the fact that the children's body chronically loses oxygen, which is so important for him, oxygen starvation of the brain, and this is a very dangerous condition for children.

Sometimes growths can close the Eustachian tube, which connects the throat with the ear. As a result, develops otitis, and the stagnation of mucus significantly reduces the hearing in a child. "Adenoid mask" - a change in the facial skeleton, it is unsafe. If the time of its occurrence (adenoids) is not eliminated in time, then the child will form an incorrect bite and a high predisposition to caries will occur at an early age.

Folk remedies in the treatment of enlarged pharyngeal tonsils are considered an effective way to cope with the disease, but only in those cases where the degree of the disease does not require mandatory surgical intervention. Although simple to prepare and non-toxic folk recipes can help during the recovery stage after the adenotomy performed by the surgeon.

Treatment options for adenoid using aromatherapy can be viewed in the following video.

In any treatment of this ailment, both with a drug and a non-medicinal home, it is important to follow the principles of such therapy and procedure:

• Removal of inflammation, swelling, removal of mucus from the nasal passages.
• Restoration of nasal breathing.
• Strengthening immunity.
• Physiotherapy procedures (if allowed in a particular case by a doctor).
• Creating a favorable microclimate.
• Breathing exercises.

Prepare a tool for these purposes can be one of the following recipes:

• Salt. Regular salt can be found in every housewife. To make a rinse for the nose, you need to take a teaspoon of salt and a glass of boiled, pre-cooled to room temperature water. Stir the salt thoroughly, rinse both nasal passages every 2-3 hours.

• pharmaceutical camomile. Herbal collection of this useful plant can be purchased at any pharmacy. For the preparation of rinsing need 1 teaspoon of vegetable raw materials and 100 ml. water. About a quarter of an hour, everything is cooked in a water bath, and then infused under the lid until it is completely cooled.The broth before rinsing should be thoroughly drained to avoid the smallest particles of plant fragments falling into the nasal cavity.

• Calendula. Dried flowers and crushed calendula leaves in the amount of a teaspoon should be boiled with boiling water (1 cup). Infusion pour into a thermos and stand there for about an hour. Then cool, strain through several layers of gauze and rinse the nasal passages with this agent. The tool can be used and gargle.

This will help natural remedies that have a pronounced anti-inflammatory effect:

• Aloe. A cut leaf of a houseplant needs to be kept in the fridge for several hours, after which it is cut and squeezed with gauze. Bury it in the nose of the child needs 3-5 drops in each nasal passage. Small kids aloe juice can be diluted with boiled water or saline in half. Before each bury we prepare fresh juice.

• Eucalyptus Essential Oil. This is a renowned anti-adenoid remedy. Pure essential oil, of course, can not drip into the nose. For the preparation of drops you will need another, base oil. You can take vaseline. On a teaspoon of "base" you need about 3 drops of the ether component. Bury in the nose the resulting mixture should be 2-3 times a day. After the procedure, the child must lie down with his head thrown back so that the drops could envelop the amygdala as best as possible.

• Propolis. This powerful anti-inflammatory agent can be used for children after 5 years and provided that they are not allergic in general and to bee products in particular. When making an ointment that is effective against adenoids, you will need a teaspoon of propolis (not tinctures), and 10 of the same tablespoons of butter. All put in a glass or ceramic dish, put in a water bath, wait until the ingredients are completely dissolved. Stir and cool. Store the ointment in the refrigerator, applied to the mucous membrane of the nose twice a day using cotton wool or a cotton swab.

• Carnation. This spice not only improves the taste of culinary delights, but also helps to cope with adenoids. Ten buds dipped in half a glass of boiling water and leave under the lid for an hour. Then the agent must strain, cool and drip into the nose up to 4 times a day. Clove perfectly relieves inflammation and reduces swelling of overgrown pharyngeal tonsil.

For these purposes, you can use the time-tested recipes of herbal and berry teas. Very good for adenoids tea from the leaves and berries of black currant. It not only strengthens the immune system as a whole, but also prevents further growth of the tonsil.

Effectively stimulates the immune system of the child Echinacea. This plant is contraindicated in children up to a year. You can use the pharmaceutical tincture, and you can prepare it yourself. 100 gr. chopped herbs will need about a glass of hot water. Fifteen minutes, keep the tool on the steam bath, and then cooled and filtered. The child is allowed to drink 50-60 ml several times a day.

In tea or compote you can mix a teaspoon of aloe juice, we told about it above. Another powerful natural immunostimulant is honey. It can also be given in pure form or added to drinks, if the child is not allergic and has already turned 3 years old.

As for inhalation and warming compresses to the nasal cavity, then you should be extremely careful. Not all children with a diagnosis of "adenoids" are allowed such procedures.Only with the permission of a physician, you can make inhalations with saline solution, with fir and eucalyptus oil, with infusion of pine buds, calcined salt and mineral water. On the nose make warming compresses with honey, mustard cakes. Breathing hot steam in adenoids is strictly prohibited.

Children with an enlarged tonsil need sea air. Optimally, if they will often carry to the sea. But even if this is not possible, parents can create at home the “right” one that promotes a microclimate recovery. First, the air temperature in the room where the baby lives should be not lower than 18 and not higher than 20 degrees. Secondly, you need to pay attention to the humidity. This is a very important parameter for children with respiratory diseases.

The air should not be too dry and too humid. The optimum values ​​of humidity are in the range of 50-70%. To create such a microclimate will help a special device - a humidifier. However, it is not cheap. If there is no possibility to purchase, you can place basins with water in the house, hang wet towels and make sure that they do not dry out. You can additionally buy a small aquarium with fish.

It is also useful to get a home quartz lamp.

Usually, children are prescribed gymnastics according to Strelnikova’s method. The system has quite a lot of different exercises aimed at a variety of pathologies.

How to do breathing exercises by the Strelnikova method can be seen in the next video.

It happens that parents refuse surgery and prefer to treat a child with third-degree adenoids with traditional medicine. Of course, the refusal of surgical intervention is the legal right of moms and dads, but for the consequences of such treatment, they too have the responsibility to bear the responsibility, and above all to their own child.

For those who have doubts, I can cite a curious statistic that the ENT doctors of one of the Moscow children's clinics have derived: more than half of the established diagnoses “third-degree adenoids” occur in children, who have been treated with folk remedies and homeopathy at home for a long time and without result. Almost 70% of them, as a result, still had to have an operation, because the disease at the time of treatment was extremely neglected.

• If the child is diagnosed with adenoids, he should eat right. You can not feed the child with salty foods, pickled and canned foods, sour berries and fruits, as the acid strongly irritates the inflamed pharyngeal tonsil and contributes to the progress of the disease.
• A child should not supercool, drink too cold or too hot drinks.
• Parents should not attempt to treat the affected and enlarged tonsil on their own with antiseptics. All the advice that you can cauterize it and stop the growth with iodine is detrimental to the child.
• During exacerbation of adenitis, it is forbidden to take the child to the bathhouse, to the sauna and to the pool.

• Try to follow a therapeutic procedure: rinse thoroughly before instilling drops in the nose. If there are dry crusts, they should be removed. After the first day of treatment, you need to enter the means for immunostimulation. Then physiotherapy, if allowed by the doctor. You can go to the respiratory gymnastics only when the nasal breathing is restored.
• To conduct inhalation is better with the use of special devices - inhaler or nebulizer. If the child inhales the hot vapors of the healing broth from the saucepan, covering himself with a towel over his head, he may have a burn of the nasal mucosa, larynx, trachea and bronchi.With such a diagnosis, hot vapors are contraindicated, but otherwise you will not be able to inhale the medicinal formulations without the device. Do not inhale or warm compresses if your child has a fever.