ABOUT THE DISEASE throat

* Tonsils

Tonsil or tonsils are attached to the right and left wall of the throat that serves as the body's defenses. Generally be enlarged tonsils at the age of 5 years and this is a natural thing. However, the amount should match the size of the anatomy.

If this enlarged tonsils causing complaints, such as a child so hard to breathe, while eating frequent vomiting because there was a lump in the throat, then when it had happened focal infection. Tonsils which serves to filter impurities from the incoming air is already full of germs.

Infection of the tonsils cause the symptoms:

* Trouble breathing
* Frequent vomiting while eating because it feels there is a lump throat
* Difficulty swallowing because of sore throat
* Fever if just a little tired
* Mouth odor is often due to "junk" that accumulate germs
* Body weight down
* Children are often sick

When in the year the child has strep throat more than 5 times, can be said tonsils had no longer functions as a fortress. As a result, these organs contain only the dirt just so weakened immune children and he often sickly.

If there are indications that the tonsils are a problem, it needs to be discarded. If maintained, children suffer through adulthood because often sickly. In addition, the infection can spread to other areas, such as the sinuses.

Surgery will be done by looking at the condition of the child. Although still small, but when experiencing breathing problems and even risk apneu sleep or stop breathing suddenly in his sleep, then the operation must be done immediately. In harmless conditions, surgery may be postponed until the age of children over 3 years. Better yet, over the age of 5 years.

* Adenoid

Just as the tonsils, tonsils in the back of the nasal cavity will be enlarged at the age of 3 years. After it was supposed to shrink and gradually disappear. If you continue to work adenoid bacteria filter, it will remain large and could be a source of infection. In children, these cases can develop into hipertropi adenoid or an enlarged adenoid to cover the channel so that the child's nose hard to breathe.

Beware if in sleep children often snore loudly. Breathing disorders were often shown with restless sleep, frequent waking, and nightmares.

Physically, children who have hipertropi adenoid face is recognizable from the typical or adenoid face (facies adenoid) with features:

1. mouth is always open
2. palate grows upward concave
3. upper jaw teeth forward

Due to the always open mouth, germs easily enter the body so that the infection easily occur. Tonsils had to work hard so it would grow.