Stridor

What is stridor? **Stridor** is a clinical term that characterizes the clinical manifestations of a patient’s breathing with a voice disorder due to a narrowing of the lumen of the larynx above the glottis. The main mechanism of respiratory disorders, which determines the narrowing of the pharynx due to the reflex narrowing of the vocal folds with difficulty in the passage of air through the respiratory tract. These are the sounds of cackling, cackling or whistling, most often appearing with various respiratory pathologies in children or during sleep.

The main symptom of stridor is difficulty breathing during speech or at rest, a rough, low, deafening sound that can be aggravated by crying, breathing through the nose, inflating a balloon, bending the head forward, or pressing on the chin. At