Psychosomatics of adenoids in children

Adenoiditis is one of the most common "childhood" diseases. In adults, this problem does not occur. Very often, children's doctors cannot explain why this or that child has developed an enlargement of the pharyngeal tonsil. Parents only receive an appointment sheet or referral for surgery. At the same time, psychosomatics as knowledge will help to avoid an unpleasant ailment.

General information about the disease

Adenoids or adenoiditis in medicine are called pathological enlargement of the pharyngeal tonsil. It consists of lymphoid tissue and performs protective functions - it stops the advancement of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi. During an illness with the flu, for example, the pharyngeal tonsil may enlarge, but after recovery it returns to its normal size.

In some children, the amygdala is enlarged without regard to the disease itself. The proliferation of lymphoid tissue is recognized as pathological, it leads to difficulty or complete disappearance of nasal breathing.

Most often, enlarged adenoids are found in children aged 3 to 7 years.

The reasons for the development of pathology are precisely unknown to medicine. Viruses and bacteria are considered guilty in everything, as well as respiratory diseases preceding the growth.

There are several degrees of the disease, and if nasal breathing is partially preserved in the first and second degrees, although it is difficult, then in the third degree it is completely absent. In addition, hearing may be impaired, there is no sense of smell, the child begins to "gundos", as the timbre of his voice changes.

The kid tries to breathe only through his mouth, which significantly increases the likelihood of pulmonary and bronchial pathologies, he does not sleep well at night, and may snore. Due to the need to constantly breathe through the mouth, the child develops a special facial expression, decreases his learning ability, attention, and communication skills.

1-2 degrees of adenoiditis are usually treated conservatively, with 3 degrees an operation to remove the overgrown lymphoid tissue is indicated pharyngeal tonsil. Conservative treatment is very often unsuccessful.

Psychosomatic causes

Psychologists, psychotherapists and pediatricians have long been interested in the question of why viruses and bacteria equally affect all children, and not everyone has adenoid vegetations. There is no need to talk about individual predisposition, because adenoids are not inherited.

Often sick babies are also not the reason, because among them there is a large percentage of children who, although they often get sick, do not suffer from adenoiditis.

Psychosomatic medicine, located at the intersection of psychology, physiology and anatomy, claims that a child is always trying to communicate something to the world with adenoids.

If the parents hear and understand, then the problem will be solved, the amygdala will reverse development, as it happens after a normal viral disease in a healthy baby. If they do not hear and will continue to intensively treat the child from adenoiditis, then you cannot do without an operation.

From the point of view of psychosomatics, the pharyngeal tonsil, as a part of the human lymphatic system, performs the function of a sewer, a scavenger. It collects all unnecessary and removes from the body, it is the first barrier to viruses and bacteria. Psychosomatics treat negative emotions and thoughts like garbage. They also need to be collected and removed in a timely manner..

If the child does not cope with the abundance of his own negative thoughts, if too many of them accumulate, then the pharyngeal tonsil begins to grow vigorously in order to have time to process a large amount of "garbage".

When adults hear about such a concept as negative thoughts in children, they are perplexed - how can babies have so much negativity?

Let's look at what the true causes of adenoids in a child can be.

Maternal fears and anxiety... Experienced pediatricians even have a special term - restless mother syndrome. Such mothers worry about every pimple that appears on the baby's skin, they immediately run to the doctor for an appointment, most of their worries are far-fetched, trifling fears. The child feels this excessive anxiety and regards it in the only correct way - as a threat to his existence. If the mother at the same time begins to treat the toys with an antiseptic, talk about the danger of puddles and flowers in the yard, about the danger of stray animals, then the baby risks not only getting an overgrowth of tonsils in response to a threat from the outside, but also becoming allergic.
Family scenes... If a child has an increased sensitivity of the nervous system and a gentle psyche, then family scenes, conflicts and scandals of parents become a real threat from the outside. If the psychological background in the family is unfavorable, then the child has no choice but to defend himself on his own. How can he do this? Physically - almost nothing. But his immunity-defender comes on alert in response to the alarm, and among the first, the pharyngeal tonsil begins to grow.

Thus, in children who feel threatened from the outside (real or imagined by their parents), the proliferation of adenoids has an exclusively protective mechanism.

How to be treated?

Understanding and discovering the psychosomatic cause of adenoids in no way relieves parents from the need to comply with medical prescriptions. Psychological work should be carried out in parallel with treatment, then the result will be faster and more positive.

Very often, a child with adenoids needs a good child psychologist. Since the prerequisites are usually created by the parents themselves, this specialist should work not only with the baby, but also with his parents.

It is very important to make the child stop being silent and start talking about everything that worries him, what scares him and what he is afraid of. You need to understand what the baby is trying to defend against by the proliferation of lymphoid tissue.

Parents are shown the correction of home relationships... If scandals and quarrels cannot be stopped, you should think about the child's separate living with one of the parents, at least for a while.

The kid should feel loved, protected, desired... Hug the child more often - in the ring of mother's hands, children at any age subconsciously return to the times when they were very young, and mother's hands were the boundaries of a safe world. Very it is important to praise the child more often, express words of love and gratitude to him more often for the fact that he is.