The child grunts his nose, but no snoring? Komarovsky: possible causes and characteristics of treatment

A trembling attitude to the health of the child is the primary duty of conscious parents. Modern pediatricians are not surprised by the instant reaction of adults to the slightest sneeze. However, is this reaction to changes in the child's organism always justified? For example, is it worth worrying if the child grunts his nose, but there is no snot? Komarovsky EO enlightens concerned parents in this matter. Let's find out what the doctor thinks about this.

A baby child grunts his nose

Literally right after discharge from the maternity hospital, a young mother can discover that her baby is loudly sniffling and making specific sounds. The newborn does not cough, the mucus does not secrete from the baby's nose, there is no purulent discharge, the body temperature is not increased. Expressed simpler, the child grunts his nose, but there is no snot.

Komarovsky does not consider such a phenomenon a reason for parental hysteria and excessive excitement. According to the expert, the grunting breath of crumbs disappears to the 2-3th month of life. Maximum of a year your child will nasal, after which his breathing normalizes. What, after all, is the cause of the unpleasant phenomenon?

All the fault of the physiology

Why does the baby grunt his nose? Dr. Komarovsky attributes such a manifestation to the attempts of the child's organism to adapt to new conditions for him.

Soply can disturb a newborn baby and during a teething. Abundant regurgitation after feeding is another physiological factor provoking a grunting breath. Babies, after eating mother's milk (mixture), return to their usual position - horizontal. Part of the food is in the back of the nasal passages. When air passes through the nasopharynx of a child, a specific sound resembling grunting occurs.

Your child's mouth snarls, but there is no snot. "Is it a cold?" - you ask. This is a physiological rhinitis. The mucous membrane of the newborn is irritated in response to dry air in the room, dust, animal hair, pollen of plants. This is a kind of allergic reaction caused by the factors of the new habitat.

If only after a night's sleep your child sniffs, but there is no snot, Komarovsky connects it with a snot cluster in the area of the posterior nasal department. The reason for this - the narrow nasal passages of the child, swelling in response to changes in environmental conditions. This may occur after the heating is switched on in winter.

Is not this a pathology?

The newborn child "grunts", but there is no snot. The reasons for this may also be pathological.

Among the most common:

• Congenital abnormal structure of the septum of the nose. Pathology originates in the process of intrauterine development of the fetus. Correction is made after a preliminary consultation with a specialist.
• Swelling of the mucosa, which was preceded by injury to the nasal cavity. With a similar may encounter parents who sloppily cleaned the child's spout with cotton swabs and thereby damaged the nasal mucosa. The result is swelling and grunting breathing.
• Mechanical damage caused by bruises, bumps or foreign body noses.

Unclear diagnosis - stridor

Stridor is a disease that can diagnose ENT when examining a newborn baby. Literally, the diagnosis sounds like "noise at breathing". Some babies have softened laryngeal cartilages or narrow nasal passages from birth. In such situations, the child in the process of breathing snorts and produces specific sounds resembling grunting. As the growth of crumbs, breathing normalizes.

If the stridor is diagnosed, there is a need for additional examinations that will help to eliminate serious ailments associated with heart disease, problems with the thymus gland, bronchial tubes. This fact explains the need for an additional examination of the child by a doctor at the age of 2-3 years.

How to help the baby?

The throat sniffs, but there is no snot. What to do? In the case of physiological reasons to solve the problem, parents need to eliminate allergens and provide comfortable living conditions for the child, namely air temperature within 20 degrees and humidity 50-70%.

Remove from the nursery all the dust collectors: furniture, carpets, books, etc. Try to keep pets as far from the child as possible. The same applies to feeds for aquarium fish, flowers and other potential allergens.

In order to ease the condition of crumbs, Komarovsky advises using saline solution to moisten the nasal passages. Drip the product you need every 60 minutes for 3-4 drops. It will also help wash using water with sea salt.

Do not forget about regular walks in the fresh air, which help the nasal mucosa remain hydrated, and the nasal passages - clean. Contraindications to long walks can only be an acute form of the disease, provoking a high body temperature.

Drink plenty of bread. This will help to establish water-salt metabolism and make up for the fluid imbalance in the child's body. Children older than six months can drink fruit juices containing vitamin C (cranberry, raspberry, etc.).

Does your baby literally choke on snot? From white transparent mucus can be eliminated with a special suction, syringe or a regular syringe. During the procedure, you should use the composition to clean the nasal passages. They can be found in the pharmacy.

Prolonged mucus secretion, its abundant congestion in the nasopharynx, discoloration of the snot on yellow or green are unequivocal reasons for seeking medical help. The opinion of a specialist is necessary for any of the above-mentioned pathological causes of the phenomenon.

Flush the child's nose correctly

Why the child grunts his nose, but no snot, we found out. We also learned about ways to relieve the condition of crumbs, among which the primary washing of the nasal passages is paramount. What about the technique of the event?

For the beginning we lay the child on a side and we irrigate a solution with the top nostril. In the case of newborns, it is better to use isotonic drops, rather than agents in the form of sprays. To wash the nasal passages with saline solution is also not worth it. The concentration of salt in it exceeds the salt percentage in the child's blood by hundredths. This is enough to overdry the mucous baby nose.

Then we carry out the same actions with the second nostril. At the end of the procedure, the aspirator (syringe) must be cleaned. To wash the nasal passages Komarovsky advises to resort every time with nasal congestion.

Preventive measures

Your child snorts, but does not have a sniff? Komarovsky comforts his parents, focusing on the physiology of the child. However, this does not mean that preventive measures should be neglected.

More about them below.

1. We maintain the humidity index in the room 50-70%. We regularly hold a wet cleaning, use an air humidifier (cover the batteries with wet towels) in the heating season.
2. We maintain the air temperature at 18-20 degrees. Regularly aired.
3. We get rid of the dust accumulators.
4. We often walk with the child in the fresh air.
5. We help the baby roll over on the tummy, hold his head - this helps normalize breathing.
6. We carry out regular care for the nose of the newborn.
7. We bathe the baby regularly.
8. Regularly drip into the nostrils of the child's physiological solution: 2 drops 2-3 times a day.

How correctly to look after a nose of the kid?

In the first month of life, crumbs should be cleaned twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. The procedure is carried out with the use of cotton buds. Before the tool touches the mucous membrane, it must be dipped in oil or greased with petroleum jelly to avoid damage. White mucus should be regularly removed with a syringe (syringe). If the baby has crusts in the nose, soak them with oil.

The nose is laid, snot missing - how to be?

How to act in a situation where there is no sniff, but the baby does not breathe? The Ukrainian pediatrician here also comes to the aid of troubled parents.

Often, the cause of this phenomenon in the enlarged pharyngeal amygdala is an adenoid. It stands on the way to the nasopharynx, making it difficult for the air to pass through. The child gets used to breathe through the mouth, he talks in the nose.

Similar can be encountered in polyps - benign formations located on the nasal mucosa and preventing normal breathing. The clinical picture is supplemented by a headache, high fatigue. Polyps are removed surgically.

The curvature of the septum is also one of the possible causes of congestion. This can be caused by trauma accompanied by swelling and bruising.

In each of these cases, the need to address the problem to the otolaryngologist is obvious.

Observance of preventive measures and parents' watchful attitude to the child's health guarantee the avoidance of the described problems with a nose crumbs. Does your child for a long time grunt in the nose, but there is no snot? Komarovsky advises to immediately contact the observing doctor. This especially applies to cases of fever, the appearance of lethargy, coughing.