Question
A four-year-old boy is attending kindergarten. He often has a hoarse voice. Besides the situation of eye-blinking exhalation. This time, due to rhinitis, he was carefully examined and it was found that the rhinitis is basically resolved. However, along with coughing, the phlegm produced is yellow. Blood tests and lung percussion indicated a respiratory infection. Today I saw information about laryngeal cancer, and the child’s eye-blinking exhalation might be due to throat discomfort. When I asked him if it hurt or felt uncomfortable, his expression was not very clear. There was a previous instance of ear pain and fever, where a thorough examination revealed that the ear was completely blocked by earwax, and medication for ear drops was prescribed to resolve it. The symptoms include eye-blinking deep breathing and then exhaling. I would like to ask the doctor what this situation is and consider taking him for a detailed examination in the otorhinolaryngology department.
Answer
Based on your description of the condition, considering that your child may have chronic pharyngitis, the hoarseness may be caused by vocal cord nodules. It is recommended that you take your child to the hospital’s otorhinolaryngology department for a follow-up examination, where an otoscope examination can be performed to determine the condition of ear blockage, and after softening the earwax, it can be removed under endoscopy. At the same time, it is recommended that your child drink plenty of water, maintain a light diet, avoid spicy and irritating foods, and take lozenges containing honey and hawthorn for treatment of pharyngitis. In daily life, relieve symptoms through reasonable diet.