Mouth breathing in children with learning disorders

• Autor(a) principal: Fensterseifer, Giovana Serrao
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Carpes, Oswaldo, Weckx, Luc Louis Maurice [UNIFESP], Martha, Viviane Feller
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1808-8694.20130111; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/36685
• topic: adenoids; learning disorders; mouth breathing; nasal obstruction

Given the importance of studying the causes of learning disorders, we designed this case-control study to assess the nasal cavity volume, pharyngeal and palatine tonsils in children with and without learning disabilities.Method: A total of forty-eight children were enrolled in the study: twenty-four coming from the Center for Evaluation and Early Stimulation (CADEP), in which the criterion is the school failure of at least two consecutive years; and twenty-four students with normal learning - which made up the control group. the children were submitted to ENT examination (history, physical examination) and specific tests (acoustic rhinometry, cavum radiography).Results: the results showed that students with learning disabilities have a higher prevalence of pharyngeal tonsil hypertrophy: p < 0.001, and palatine tonsil hypertrophy: p < 0.001. the average volume of the nasal cavities showed no statistically significant association with learning difficulties (P = 0.75).Conclusion: Based on this study, we concluded that children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy have more learning difficulties when compared to children without such hypertrophy.