Question
A two-and-a-half-year-old child has been diagnosed with adenoid hypertrophy, and the symptoms have persisted for a month without improvement, despite having taken various medications. How should this situation be handled?
Answer
Adenoid hypertrophy is usually caused by a child’s incomplete recovery from a cold or cough. Persistent nasal congestion may lead to facial deformities, intellectual impairment, and may also result in otitis media. Therefore, timely surgery or iontophoresis treatment is very important. In some cases, if the symptoms are not severe, parents can opt to wait until the child is around 10 years old, when the adenoids may naturally regress.