The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-30
WHY CHILDREN HAVE ADENOIDS.

WHY CHILDREN HAVE ADENOIDS.
Many authors tell of the trouble
caused by adenoids, but there they stop,
they do not go on back and explain why
adenoids exist.
These abnormal growths of tissue in
children cause 6eafness, earache, in
distinct enunciation, suffering or STAN
mering enuresis, mouth-breathing and
snoring at night.
Everyone is familiar with the poor
little drawn face, with its pinched ex-
preston. The lips are usually thick
and swollen.
Ofcourse no one child has all of these
symptoms, but every case of adenoids
has some of them. The severity of the
symptoms depend upon the location, as
well as the extent of the growth, for
instance: if the growth were at the
enstanchean orifice a very small area
being involved would produce deafness.
| A large area elsewhere would not effect
the hearing.
! Children who have adenoids have fre-
quent colds and bronchial trouble. They
are also much less immune to contage-
Gus diseases than others.
Authorities on childrens diseases viii
tell you all the above and will advocate
operation. They will also state that,
''in spite of the most careful operation
adenoids viii frequently recur."
They have told you nothing of the
etiology of adenoids.
Osteopathy explains the presence of
adenoid growth and remover the cause
for it, this being eliminated there can
be no recurrence.
In infancy and childhood just as in
young plant life, the tissues are very
tender and susceptible to change and
outware influence. Exposure, catching
severe colds. unsuitable diet, are con-
tributing causes of these growths, but
the real primary cause in nearly every
case is some form of injury to the It's
sues about the neck, upper part of the
chest, or shoulders.
This injury may occur at birth
through some unavoidable difficulty and
will not be known at the time Every
child from the time it is born is having
all sorts of falls off of beds. couch
es, out of chairs, all of these are
forgotten as soon as baby's crying
stops, but very few get through this
age without injuries of more or less
Importance. Some of the little ribs,
or collar bone, are wrenehed or twisted.
Falling on heads or shoulders causes a
violent wrenching and straining of the
vertebrae and tender muscles and other
tissues OF the neck and throat.
In babies and children the lymph
glands are relatively much larger and
more numeroue than in adults. The
| lymph and blood vessels in growing
children are very tender and suscepti-
BILE to change. Injury of the neck viii
interfere with the vasomotor nerves
controlling size of vessels) causing a
change in the caliber of the vessels in
she naso-pharynx membrane at the
back part of the nasal passages and
mouth.)
Irritation to the motor nerves caused
by colds, fatigue or injury produces
muscular contraction which in turn
makes pressure upon the blood and
lymph vessels. Cell formation is so r.
pid in a small child, that if for any
reason too much blood, unless it be in
active Inflammation, is kept in one re-
gion, it causes abnormal growth. This
is what occurs in the adenoid tissue of
the naso-pharyngeal membrane.
Osteopathic treatment will correct
the position of the ribs and clavicles
fcollar bones,) relax and ncrmalize the
tissues of the neck and throat, allowing
free and natural flow of blood and
lymph. This viii usually cause the ade-
mold growth to disappear or reduce it in
size until it viii cause no further trou-
bic. If it is necessary to remove some
remaining tissue after treatment Is fin
ished, there viii be no danger of recur-
renee, the primary cause having been
removed. DR.. T Il. Clover.