Chandra McGuire thought she’d have to learn to live with her 2-year-old son’s snoring and pauses in breathing that roused him, and her, two to four times a night. “He’s always been hyperactive and had a very quick temper,” McGuire said. “His doctors kept telling me it was colic, but when you can’t sleep it affects everything else.”
Lately, though, her son Francis Massey V has been sleeping through the night for the first time in his life, two months after his enlarged tonsils and adenoids were surgically removed at Boston Children’s Hospital, a procedure his doctors hoped would open his airways and help him breathe better during sleep.
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If the boy in the picture lost weight and engaged in basic kid physical activity, a lot of his issues would resolve. My 7 year old developed such brutally enlarged tonsils and adenoid that surgical removal was acutely necessary. she is very slender and active, but the apnea was violent and her behavior and daytime alertness in such decline that surgery was the only remedy. She was immediately a different child, sleeping through the nigh so quietly and soundly that I kept having to check her to see if she was alive! The surgery was the best thing I could have done for her. And it is adenoid, not adenoidS. We only have one, and in some rare cases, it grows back. Typical for the Globe to make such a basic fact-checking error.
I agree 100% with jacobus57 the kid first needs to try the obvious remedy, lose a little weight.