Patient's question:
Baby is 2 months and 7 days old. I always feel like there is phlegm in her throat. After a thorough check-up, the doctor said it's due to congenital soft laryngeal cartilage. What should I pay attention to, and what kind of interference might this have on her future development?Doctor's answer:
Baby is 2 months and 7 days old. I always feel like there is phlegm in her throat. After a thorough check-up, the doctor said it's due to congenital softening of the laryngeal cartilage. The doctor's advice is as follows: In medicine, we call this laryngeal cartilage softening. The larynx of a small infant is narrow. In children with soft laryngeal cartilage, the larynx deforms during inhalation, blocking the entrance to the larynx and causing difficulty in breathing again. Due to the narrowed airway, a sound is produced as the airflow passes through, which can be referred to as stridor. This sound is caused by the vibration of the aryepiglottic folds. Stridor can also occur when the tracheal cartilage rings are weak, deformed, or abnormally.