A doctor can help diagnose you or your child with stridor, a restricted breathing condition. Treatments depend on a few factors, but a doctor may recommend medication or surgery. Share on Pinterest ...

Laryngomalacia is a condition of the voice box that results in noisy breathing. It occurs when the soft tissues of the voice box pull into the airway when a person inhales. Another symptom of this ...

Supraglottoplasty is a procedure usually performed on children to treat laryngomalacia — a condition that obstructs a person’s airway. It may also be performed on adults and is usually regarded as a ...

Background: Laryngomalacia is the most common cause of congenital stridor. It usually presents by high pitched inspiratory stridor which is often present at birth and is usually noticed by 2 weeks of ...

Babies born with laryngomalacia—a type of birth defect— make a noisy sound when they breathe. In fact, this condition is the most common cause for your infant's noisy breathing. The noise tends to get ...

A baby girl was noted to have stridor on day 1 of life. Her examination was otherwise normal, and a provisional diagnosis of laryngomalacia was made. However, she continued to have intermittent ...

A term baby boy presented to our institution with stridor and cyanosis. He was born at 40 weeks gestation at the referring hospital to a 23-year-old primigravida woman by vacuum-assisted vaginal ...

Sophie Hinchliffe, known as Mrs Hinch, has revealed the scare she experienced when she rushed her newborn son Vinnie to the hospital earlier this week. It was there that he received a diagnosis for ...

Stridor is a high-pitched squeaking or whistling sound, usually due to an obstruction in an airway. Stridor is a sign of an underlying health issue rather than a diagnosis or disease in itself. This ...