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Enlarged Adenoids Affect Your Hearing

Enlarged adenoids affect your hearing.  When enlarged adenoids block eustachian tubes, fluids build up in your middle ear decreasing your ability to hear.

Testimonial: A parents’ determination to learn why snoring continued after removal of enlarged adenoids.

Auditory Integration Training is physical therapy for the ears teaching them to work together.

Full Impact of Snoring Caused by Enlarged Adenoids

According to the Mayo Clinic,  snoring is associated with numerous conditions. Behaviors are clues!

Researchers found that children, five to fourteen years of age, with enlarged adenoids have an increased risk of these behaviors shared below.

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While sleeping, does the person

  1. Breathe in a strange pattern
  2. Seem to stop breathing, gasp, cough, or choke
  3. Move often
  4. Wake up complaining their chest hurts
  5. Disturb covers until they are off the person

In the morning, does the person

  1. Wake up tired, grumpy, irritable
  2. Sound hoarse
  3. Need to cough up or spit out fluids
  4. Share their throat hurts
  5. Complain of a headache

During the day, does the person look

  1. Sleepy or falls asleep
  2. Absent-minded, daydreams, lacks attention
  3. Confused, unable to recall what just heard
  4. Irritated while listening and noise level increases
  5. Intense while trying to concentrate
image of a child's eustachian tubes compared to an adult's eustachian tube

Age & Eustachian Tube Position

When a person sleeps, enlarged adenoids block eustachian tubes. Thus, fluid builds-up in the middle ear. Depending on age and size of adenoids, the amount of fluid varies.  In toddlers and preschoolers, the neck is short. As a result, eustachian tubes have a more horizontal position.

When fluid sits in eustachian tubes blocked by enlarged adenoids, bacteria grows. The end result, distorted sounds are heard and you have an increased risk of ear infections.

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Empowering parents to answer this question after a sleep study. “Do you want adenoids removed?”

Learn how the strength or weaknesses within your child’s hearing system is affecting the development of auditory processing skills and tolerance to sounds increasing risk of developing learning challenges.

Research Shows Negative Impact of Enlarged Adenoids

Haapaniemi (1995) found that participants with normal-sized to medium-sized adenoids experienced the behavioral characteristics below only 7% to 9.8% of the time while 25% (133 children) of 663 children, seven to 14 years of age, with enlarged adenoids experienced the following behavioral characteristics 14% to 30% of the time:

  • Open-mouth breathing
  • Snoring with first graders being the most affected age group
  • Chronic congestion (blocked nasal pathway) also called sinusitis or rhinitis
  • Decreased hearing by 1.1 to 4.2 decibels depending on size of enlarged adenoids
  • Eight times more likely to have experienced four or more ear infections

Statistically significant differences between the two control groups showing an increased risk for decreased sound energy reaching the cochlea:

  • Greater hearing loss during a common cold (.0003)
  • Abnormal color and position of ear drum (tympanic membrane .0001)
  • Lower pressure (60 to 70mm H2O) in the middle ear when compared to participants with typical-sized adenoids.

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Eustachian Tube Inflammation in Adults & Children

Food allergies and intolerances cause eustachian tube inflammation in adults and children with and without fluid build-up.  Eustachian tube inflammation contributes to ear pain, ear infections, and even the ability to hear your own voice. Surprisingly, you may even experience difficulty keeping your balance. The why behind balance difficulties still astonish me.

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Six Foods Contributing to Inflammation

There are six foods contributing to the inflammation of the eustachian tubes according to research. I have seen adults and children become calmer and less prone to episodes of anger when they remove inflammatory foods from their diet. Many children I have worked with started listening with comprehension and asking questions instead of simply doing all the talking with almost no interactions. I have even seen children with a mild stutter gain fluent speech after the identification and removal of a food allergen. The book, The Second Brain, shares how the food we eat quickly affects our brain. 

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Answers, Help, and Hope with Auditory Integration Training

My son was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), an autism spectrum at age 4. He had speech and developmental delay. At the advice of the public-school system, I enrolled him in their special preschool program. It was supposed to help with his speech and language development, but by kindergarten, his symptoms were worse. He showed behavioral problems that were not there before. I knew something was wrong and that the Speech-Language program the school provided for him was not helping. I didn’t know what to do.

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FDA Statement On AIT

"Auditory Integration Training remediateds impairments in auditory discrimination (sound sensitivity and auditory distortion) associated with Autism, Learning Disabilities, and related disorders - ADD, ADHD, CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Deficits), SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder), Dyslexia."