Does your child have trouble breathing? If so, they may be experiencing issues with their tonsils and adenoids. To correctly identify the sinus needs of your child, a visit to your local otolaryngologist will be beneficial.
Obviously, your child's health is something that is very important to you. It is often difficult to understand what health issues are affecting your child, especially if they are young. For this reason, ENT clinics are very useful. It is important to ensure your child gets the care they need by having an ear, nose, and throat specialist analyze the source of their discomfort instead of making an educated guess on your own.
While a general practitioner is usually a good place to start, this can sometimes be a waste of time if they are already going to recommend you visit a pediatric otolaryngologist in Nashville, TN.
Here’s how a pediatric otolaryngologist can help your child:
Pediatric ENT Services
Pediatric Health Assessment
Sinus & Nasal Surgery
Ear Tube Solutions
Pediatric Otolaryngology with OAT
Pediatric ENT Services
At OAT, our team of Pediatric specialist provide a full array of pediatric ear, nose, and throat services and treatment for the following:
Chronic or recurring ear infections
Ear tubes
Hearing screening and testing
Balance disorders
Diagnosis and treatment of pediatric sleep apnea
Tonsils and adenoids
Pediatric allergies
Pediatric sinusitis
Pediatric head and neck tumors
Speech and language disorders
Tongue tie
Swallowing disorders
Pediatric Health Assessment
As with any doctor's appointment, a pediatric otolaryngology appointment will begin with a health assessment of your child. When it comes to young children who like to rough house and get their hands dirty, frequent nose bleeds or other sinus issues are not uncommon.
However, when you begin to notice an abnormal amount of nosebleeds or discharge from your child’s sinuses, a visit to a local ENT might be in your best interest. From sinus issues such as labored breathing, issues with swallowing, excessive snoring or even allergies, a pediatric ear, nose and throat specialist can ensure that your child is experiencing any life threatening issues.
Similarly, outside of sinuses, your child may be experiencing some form of hearing loss. With that in mind, an experienced otolaryngologist can also assess your child’s hearing. While our children might not listen to us every time we speak to them, if your child has been notorious for not listening, but has a decent temperament, you may want to seek the opinion of a local ENT specialist. When it comes to your child, what seems like a lack of listening skills may actually have nothing to do with your child’s attention span.
Sinus & Nasal Surgery
For many pediatric patients, allergy treatment and antibiotics can control sinusitis; however, for others, surgery may be required. At OAT, our highly-qualified otolaryngologist surgeons can perform balloon sinuplasty, a minimally-invasive, in-office sinus procedure for patients seeking relief from painful sinus infections.
For young patients whose breathing problems are caused by their tonsils and adenoids, removal surgery can help to improve airflow, or can even reposition the breathing mechanism to help patients breathe more freely. Upon visiting your local ENT specialist, you’ll be able to decide which plan of action will be best for your child.
Whether your child will need surgery or a simple antibiotic will depend on the severity of the sinus situation.
Contact Otolaryngology Associates of Tennessee for your pediatric nasal and sinus issue needs.
Ear Tube Solutions
While it is normal for the majority of children to experience some form of an ear infection over the course of their lifetime, it is not normal for a child to experience an ear infection every year. While the majority of these cases can usually be cleared up with antibiotics, more severe cases occasionally arise and tend to persist.
If your child experiences multiple ear infections within six months, or has a resistance to antibiotics used to treat ear infections, see a pediatric ENT. In this case, ear tubes will likely be necessary and provide the greatest ease for your child's discomfort.
Pediatric Otolaryngology with OAT
At OAT, we treat each and every child as if they were our own. We provide cutting-edge routine and specialty care for ear, nose, and throat disorders and diseases in children. Our practice has generations of experience treating the children of Middle Tennessee.
Whether your child suffers from tongue tie, chronic ear infections, tonsillitis, allergies, or hearing loss, we can help. OAT offers a wide range of in-office diagnostic tools and procedures and our board-certified specialists compassionately work with you and your child to find the right course of treatment.
