Other Names:
Adenoid Hypertrophy

Symptoms:
It hurts at the back of the child's throat. When he opens his mouth, the area of the tonsils appears red and swollen.

Cause:
Like tonsils, adenoids help keep your body healthy by trapping harmful bacteria and viruses that you inhale. Adenoids also contain cells that make antibodies to help your body fight infections.

The infection-fighting job of adenoids happens in the first few years of a kid's life, a job that grows less important as you get older and your body develops other ways to fight germs. Some doctors believe that adenoids may not be important at all after kids reach their third birthday. In fact, adenoids usually shrink after about age 5, and by the teenage years they often practically disappear.

What is commonly called adenoids is enlargement of the pharyngeal tonsil, which is a tissue close to the tonsils. This infection frequently occurs in children.

Treatment:
• Do a 3-5 day fast on diluted citrus juices. Follow this with a careful diet.

• Three times a day, give herb teas such as red clover, sassafras, and burdock root.

• Gargle several times a day with goldenseal tea. Echinacea and myrrh are very good for all glandular swellings.