Eating habits Children generally prefer sweets and greasy food, but as parents, they must not be spoiled. Too greasy diet will not only burden the stomach, but also affect the normal blood lipid level, resulting in obesity, high blood pressure, thick blood lipids and many other problems.
Fried chicken and braised pork are very popular among teenagers. Children with good family conditions still have a lot of snacks to eat. As time goes on, children gradually become obese and weigh much more than adults of the same age. Some children are obese and grow taller at the same time. Some parents feel relieved that their children can eat and gain weight, but they don't know that they are harming their children.
Obese children should control their weight, delay the upward trend of body mass index (BMI) and reduce body fat content while ensuring their height development;
This diet is high in salt, sugar and fat. Fruits, vegetables, foods with high fiber and calcium intake are less. There are also many children who take sugary drinks as the main drinks to quench their thirst. Diet should not be too full or too fast, and you should chew slowly when eating.
Now there is not enough sleep. For various reasons, children will have some obstacles in sleeping. One is that the sleep time is not enough. The second is that the rhythm of sleep is wrong. The other one will also have these symptoms similar to adult snoring, which is a kind of hypoventilation sleep. It is these reasons that will lead to high blood pressure in children.
After lifestyle intervention, the blood pressure of most hypertensive children can reach the control standard. At the same time, monitor the changes of blood pressure every year. For children with persistent hypertension, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring can be used to identify white coat hypertension and understand the circadian rhythm of blood pressure.
Keep exercising. As long as the child is 2-5 years old, ensure outdoor physical activity for more than three hours every day. Play, climb mountains, anything, as long as he is moving. School-age children aged 6-7 should have at least one hour of moderate and high-intensity physical activity every day, except attending physical education class at school.
If your child is obese and has what experts say, you should pay attention. Please take your child to the hospital for examination, and make a weight loss plan and strictly implement it. Chronic diseases such as hypertension, the focus is not on treatment, but on prevention and management.
Conclusion The prevalence rate of hypertension among primary and middle school students in China is 14.5%. The main manifestation of secondary hypertension in children is obvious increase in blood pressure, but it can also be manifested as mild or moderate increase.
Children over 3 years old should have a physical examination accompanied by their parents every year, pay attention to measuring blood pressure and monitor it together with physical development indicators. If you find abnormal blood pressure, seek medical advice in time.