Trouble with breathing

Sneezing. Children easily begin to sneeze. Sneezing is usually not associated with a cold, unless accompanied by a runny nose. It is usually caused by dust and dried mucus that collects in the nose of the child and tickles. Weak breathing. Young parents are sometimes disturbed by the breathing of a newborn, because it is often irregular and sometimes so weak that it can not be heard or seen. Parents can also worry when they first hear how a child snores easily in a dream. Both these states are perfectly normal.

Chronic noisy breathing occurs in some infants. In one case, the child snores, but not in a dream, but during wakefulness. It seems that such snoring is caused by the fact that the child has not yet learned to control the soft palate( palatine curtain).In time, learn.

The most common type of chronic noisy breathing is associated with the larynx. The fact is that the epiglottis, the fleshy tissue over the vocal folds, in babies is so soft and flexible that it can sag and starts vibrating along with the vocal cords. This causes a loud snoring sound during breathing. The sound is like a child choking, but he can continue to breathe indefinitely. In most cases, snoring happens only when the child breathes deeply. And when the breath is shallow or when the baby sleeps, the snoring ceases. Sometimes snoring disappears if the baby is put on the stomach. It should be consulted with a doctor, but treatment is not required and does not give anything. Snoring disappears when the child becomes older.

Difficulty breathing, which suddenly begins in an older child, has a completely different nature than chronic noisy breathing. A possible cause may be croup, asthma or another disease. Such breathing requires immediate medical intervention.

Every child with noisy breathing, chronic or acute, should be examined by a doctor.

Breath holding. Some children are very angry when crying and so hold their breath that they turn blue. When this happens for the first time, parents are very frightened. But in fact, such seizures do not testify anything, except for the type of temperament of the child. Very often, the same child at other times behaves perfectly normal. You should tell the doctor about this so that on the next visit he can check if the child is physically healthy;besides this, you do not need anything. And it is not due to such attacks to keep the child from crying. If you take it every time, the child will be spoiled.

Heel( thymus) gland. You've probably heard some say with fear of the thymus gland. And you think that this gland is very dangerous. Sometimes, in very rare cases, when an infant dies without any apparent reason, the goiter is blamed. The bad reputation of the goiter is not based on anything at all. Each child has such a gland. The normal size of the thymus gland slightly protrudes from the respiratory throat, but almost never causes any symptoms or troubles. Now it is considered unnecessary and even unreasonable to treat it with X-rays.

It used to be believed that an increase in the thymus gland causes an unexpected death. This error was caused by the fact that there was no clear idea of ​​the normal size of this gland. Now we know more about this;Thyroid gland in a sudden death of children of the most usual size. With more careful investigation, it appears that the cause of sudden death is always an unexpected infectious disease.

So do not worry about the thymus gland. And you do not need to scan a healthy newborn X-ray to determine its size.