腺样体增生肥大并引起相应症状称之为腺样体增殖或腺样体肥大。腺样体肥大的病因是多因素的。既往的研究主要集中于腺样体肥大的微生物学及免疫学方面的改变,反复急性病毒、细菌感染,致病菌的定植,慢性细菌感染,过敏反应发作等都可能导致腺样体肥大及淋巴滤泡增殖。此外,
Adenoid hypertrophy is a disease that mostly occurs among children of 3-5years old.It is caused by repeated inflammation and infection of nasopharynx and its adjoin parts,or the adenoid itself,which will finally leads to pathological hyperplasia of adenoid.With so much information we have acquired about this disease,its specific mechanism remains unknown.In recent years,some researches have indicated that adenoid hypertrophy may have something to do with extra-gastroesophageal reflux,in which pepsin plays a very important role,and pepsin will do a series of pathological damages to the upper airway as it reaches the upper respiratory tract.Based on relative domestic and foreign literature,this paper attempts to make a review about the relationship between gastroesophageal reflux and adenoid hypertrophy.