Paediatric Snoring Clinic

If you’re worried about your child’s noisy breathing at night, it can be upsetting, especially if you’ve noticed pauses, gasping, or daytime tiredness. At Midland Health in Birmingham, we offer specialist paediatric snoring assessment to help you understand what may be driving the snoring and what child snoring treatment options make sense for your child.

How We Can Help With Paediatric Snoring 

Our consultant will assess paediatric snoring and sleep-breathing concerns by looking carefully for causes such as enlarged tonsils or adenoids, nasal blockage, and recurrent infection. Snoring usually happens when airflow is partly narrowed and soft tissues vibrate. This often happens around the tonsils and adenoids. However, persistent loud snoring, breathing pauses, choking or gasping noises, or restless sleep can be features of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). This is a common condition and can be treated without surgery in many cases.

Who This Clinic May Be Suitable For

This clinic may be a good fit if your child snores most nights, breathes through their mouth, or has restless sleep. It can also be helpful if snoring sits alongside recurrent tonsillitis, frequent infections, or ongoing nasal blockage. 

Nighttime signs that parents often notice  include:

• Loud snoring, pauses in breathing, gasping/choking noises
• Restless sleep, unusual sleep positions, sweating, wetting the bed 

Daytime signs that can occur because of poor sleep include:

• Ongoing mouth breathing or nasal-sounding speech
• Morning tiredness, irritability, poor concentration

Our Approach To Finding What’s Causing Your Child To Snore 

Our diagnoses involve a careful decision process based on symptoms and our findings from physical examinations findings. In some cases, keeping a sleep diary or carrying out at-home sleep testing is the best way to gather data and understand what is happening to cause your child’s snoring. Common ENT causes we can assess for:

• Recurrent infection and throat inflammation
• Enlarged tonsils and adenoids, a common driver of obstruction
• Nasal obstruction from rhinitis/allergy-type inflammation, congestion, or structural narrowing

Our Approach To Finding What’s Causing Your Child To Snore 

We’ll listen to your concerns about your child’s snoring and sleep quality and how this is affecting family life. Your child will have a ENT examination of the nose and throat, including the tonsils, and we’ll explain what we can and can’t conclude from the examination on the day.

Our consultants will speak calmly and use age-appropriate methods to focus on what is most useful and least distressing. If needed, we’ll talk through alternative ways to gather the information safely.

Our Approach To Finding What’s Causing Your Child To Snore 

Your child’s treatment plan will depend on what we find. We’ll talk through options in a calm, step-by-step way so you can make informed decisions. Depending on the likely cause, treatment may include:

• Saline rinses/sprays and nasal care routines
• Nasal steroid sprays (where clinically appropriate)
• Allergy or rhinitis management (if suspected)
• Further assessment for sleep apnoea such as questionnaires, sleep diaries, 

If an obstruction is the likely cause of snoring, and cannot be reduced or removed by other methods, we will discuss surgical options with you. This will only be suggested if it is in the child’s best interests, such as to reduce sleep disturbance or discomfort.

Your Clinical Team

We understand that sleep is a key concern for parents. Our team works collaboratively to diagnose and address the root cause of your child's snoring trouble and find suitable management and treatment options.

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Why Choose Midland Health 

As parents, you want to know that your child’s health is in good hands. Our paediatric snoring clinic is set up to provide straightforward assessments and helpful treatment plans that help your child get a good night’s sleep.

• No GP referral required 
• No waiting lists 
• Same-day / next-day appointments (where available)
• Calm, child-friendly environment
• At-home testing options

How to Find Us 

Our Paediatric Snoring Clinic is located at Midland Health on Francis Road in Edgbaston, a modern, comfortable setting that's easy to reach by bus, tram or train, with parking available nearby.

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