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Many people think that high blood pressure is a "patent" for the elderly, or that at least adults can get high blood pressure, so they neglect to test their children's blood pressure. But in fact, high blood pressure has long been targeted at children, and in recent years, the probability of children suffering from high blood pressure has also increased year by year. In Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, 8-year-old Doudou has often suffered from headaches for no reason recently.
Wang Aizhen, director of the Department of Pediatrics of Taizhou City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Headache, no fever, no cough, no obvious vomiting or anything, the child's body shape is relatively fat, so our doctor from the differential diagnosis, first from a child has no hypertension, to give him a blood pressure was high pressure 150, low pressure 100.
According to doctors, headache is often the first and most common symptom of hypertension, and the headache of Doudou has a great relationship with high blood pressure.
Wang Aizhen, director of the Department of Pediatrics of Taizhou City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: First, is not the high blood lipid hyperglycemia caused by the child's obesity, which causes a high blood pressure On the one hand; the second, we must consider the child's hypertension, we must pay attention to a renal artery stenosis, the renal artery is called renal hypertension.
Doctors remind that long-term excessive amounts of fried food, high-sugar and high-salt food, is not good for the child's health, should be encouraged from an early age to eat more fruits and vegetables, especially with a family history of hypertension, parents should control the child's diet.
Wang Aizhen, director of the Department of Pediatrics of Taizhou City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: At the same time, increase exercise, increase his consumption, control weight and height at an ideal level, and secondly, we have to do a health examination for children almost every year.