ADENOIDS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4852, 13 July 1925, Page 4

ADENOIDS.

A SHORT DESCRIPTION. Probably everyone in these days has heard of adenoids. But perhaps some would like a more definite idea of them. Adenoids form a mass a good deal like a tonsil, in the upper part of the throat, above the palate and behind the nose. Probably the worst thing they do is to cause ear trouble. The little tubes which ventilate the ears open into the throat just where the adenoids can block them or infect them. This lends to deafness, earache, running cars, and mastoid operations. They prevent proper breathing through the nose, which leads to all sorts of trouble. The nose not being used it does not develop properly ; the child has to keep its mouth open, taking the unfllted air right into its lungs, causing lung trouble, frequent colds, sore throats, and croup. The mouth being always open gives tne child a stupid expression, which H never entirely gets over. It is a handicap through life. The upper jaw is often deformed. They also interfere w;tn proper rcist at night; they interfere with Tie mentality of the child, preventing it from getting on as it should at school.

Parents sometimes argue against the removal of adenoids on the grounds that they usually disappear later ’n. life,’and because they sometimes return after removal. They often do not disappear ; many adults are cursed with them, and they do not often return except jn very young children, and not by any means always then. The trouble is that while waiting for the child to outgrow his adenoids he is subject to all these disastrous consequences enumerated above. It is small comfort to have him outgrow his adenoids after ,he has become permanently deaf, and a confirmed mouth breather, with a pinched-in, undeveloped nose, deformed jaw, and stupid face.