That morning
My best friend sent a WeChat message:
Tsk tsk, the corrupt life of contemporary young people…
The hoarseness of the voice can be trivial or serious!
It’s really not easy to ignore
A little more attention, there will be one more good voice in the world!
What is it like to have a “hoarse voice”?
In daily life, when the patient’s voice is mildly hoarse, the patient’s speaking volume and pitch become lower; the voice sounds faintly magnetic, also known as “Adu’s voice” .
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If it develops into a severe hoarseness, you can only hear the voice in your own ear, and sometimes you can’t even make a sound.
Why do you have a good voice and say it is silenced?
This also starts with the structure of the vocal cords.
The main vocal organs of the human body are the vocal cords in the middle of the larynx. They do not vibrate by themselves. Just like our two lips, they rely on the airflow to vibrate the vocal cords to resonate and produce sound.
A lesion on either side of the vocal folds can lead to abnormal vibration of the vocal folds, hoarseness or loss of voice.
People who use their voice excessively or in the wrong way for a long time, such as teachers who teach for a long time, small vendors who shout loudly, singers who often perform, and who love to go to karaoke rooms High-pitched people are more prone to this problem.
Generally, you can get better after a few days with a break or some medicine.
Some people may not get well for a month or two or even a few years, and then you should pay attention-
Hoarseness can be caused by lesions in the larynx (especially the vocal cords), or even a systemic disease.
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Some time ago, Mr. Dong, a 71-year-old from Shenzhen, woke up and found that his voice was hoarse. At first he thought it was a common cold or that he was eating too much spicy food, so he took some lozenges, but to no avail, the symptoms were getting worse.
He went to the ENT department to see a doctor. No problem was found in the throat, but the doctor reminded the uncle to check whether there is any problem with the nerves that control the movement of the vocal cords.
By CT examination, it was found that a pseudoaneurysm with a diameter of about 5cm grew in Uncle Dong’s aortic arch (above the heart). There is a danger of rupture at any time, which may cause massive bleeding and death!
It turned out that the “landmine” compressed the recurrent laryngeal nerve, causing unilateral or bilateral vocal cord paralysis, and he developed hoarseness.
Uncle Dong’s aneurysm is not actually a “tumor” on the blood vessel, but a disease of the artery.
Aging blood vessels with aging, coupled with chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia, cause atherosclerosis, arterial ulcers, etc., causing blood vessels to “swell” into small balls, like a Raised “tumor”.
Small bulges are false aneurysms, and if they expand as a whole, they are true aneurysms.
(aortic aneurysm)
Uncle Dong was lucky. A small “sign” of a hoarse voice can find the root cause in time and recover from surgery before the condition worsens.
But many people are not as lucky as Uncle Dong, and even have cancer when they are discovered.
For example, early-stage throat cancer, esophageal cancer, thyroid cancer and other tumor lesions may invade the normal vocal cord structure, or compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve that controls the movement of the vocal cords, resulting in hoarseness.
In 2019, the famous writer Liushahe died of throat cancer. He said in a video interview more than a year before his death that he was old and his voice was not very good. speechless.”
(Source: Red Star Video)
If throat discomfort worsens, swallowing and speaking are significantly affected, and there is no improvement after taking medication for a period of time, further investigation is required,< strong>Particular attention should be paid to middle-aged and elderly men, smokers and alcoholics.
Due to the influence of the pace of life and daily diet, throat diseases (including laryngeal aneurysms, etc.) have increasingly plagued young people.
Of course, most short-term hoarseness is caused by common laryngeal problems such as acute and chronic laryngitis, vocal cord nodules, and vocal cord polyps [1].
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