Adenoids are mass of lymphatic tissue, present behind the nasal cavity at the roof of nasopharynx junction. Adenoids are essential part of immune system in children. They play important role to fight against infection in children. But they become less important till 5 years of age.  With the growth of the child adenoids get shrunk down till 5 years of age, and disappear once child became teenager.

Symptoms of adenoids:

  • Stuffy nose: Nose always feel blocked due to excess mucus secretion. Difficulty in breathing due to blocked nose. Child’s voice acquire nasal twang due to chronic nose block.
  • Sleep apnea: which causes lack of concentration in child and drowsiness all the day due to disturbed sleep. In chronic situation snoring also present.
  • Soreness of throat: very painful and red throat is the main symptom of adenoids. There is difficulty in swallowing food due to inflammation.
  • Ear infection: is very common in adenoids condition, as adenoids and opening of Eustachian tube is close in throat. So suppurative otitis media and ear pain are common symptoms of adenoids.
  • Sinusitis: due to blockage of nose, bacteria get multiplied leads to infection of paranasal sinuses resulting into sinusitis.
  • Swollen neck: is also common symptom as adenoids inflammation causes inflammation of surrounding structure too.

Causes:

Adenoids traps bacteria and virus infection to enter in the body with the help of tonsil and prevents us to fall ill during childhood. Adenoids get enlarged while playing defense mechanism role and get back to normal size once the infection gets over. But in some cases adenoids, fail to return to their normal sizes. These enlarged adenoids are responsible for the symptoms mentioned above.

Homeopathy treatment:

Homeopathy treatment acts wonderfully on enlarged adenoids, and it prevents surgery too. Homeopathy medicines are very safe and doesn’t have any side effects if you are taking medicines by consulting homeopathy doctor. Homeopathy treats adenoid in 2 stages. In first stage recurrent attacks of adenoids gets treated. In second stage homeopathy treatment helps to increase immunity of child to fight against infections and respiratory illness. So automatically role of adenoids decreases and they get time to shrink back to their normal size.

Homeopathy medicines:

There are more than 65 homeopathy medicines to treat adenoids. Following are few examples of it

  • Calc. Carb
  • Bar. Carb
  • Merc. Sol
  • Tuberculinum

Note: self-medication is strictly prohibited.