Question
How to treat a baby’s noisy breathing due to nasal congestion?
Answer
As the body relaxes during deep sleep, the tongue also relaxes and falls into the oropharynx, narrowing it and causing it to be less open. At this point, gases continuously strike the base of the tongue and the epiglottis, etc., producing a series of snoring sounds with each breath. Long-term snoring, shortness of breath, and mouth breathing in infants can interfere with physical and brain growth and development, leading to a decline in intelligence, slower responses, dull expressions, and visible changes such as the disappearance of the nasolabial groove, a thickening and upward curling of the upper lip, weakly exposed upper incisors, curved mandible, and an elevated hard palate, forming a special “adenoid face” appearance.