DS1 is 5 and a half, and he has been having problems with mouth breathing, bad breath, snoring, and recently recurring throat infection. We took him to an ENT specialist last year as his paediatrician said his tonsils and adenoids were huge, but the ENT specialist said that it was best to leave them. Since then, he has develope all sorts of peculiar breathing habits (mouth breathing and struggling to take a satisfying breath - even though his heart and lungs are fine), and the snoring and bad breath has got worse (someone at school called him stinky breath and we know for a fact its not his teeth as I help him clean them twice a day and his dentist says they are fine). He's also developed a very strange nasal voice, that sounds persistently muffled, as if he has a blocked nose. He's also had a recurring throat infection that has lasted about 6 weeks, despite treatment with antibiotics.....his appetite is diminishing and he really is starting to get quite tired and skinny through lack of proper sleep (due to the snoring). Has anyone else had experience of this sort of thing, and do you think I should take him back to the ENT again for another opinion, or do you think it will just pass as he gets older? I don't want to subject him to unneccesary surgery, so part of me is reluctant to push it, but he really is not himself.