Your homes children high blood pressure

Posted by sldol on November 18, 2008 in Internal Medicine

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Children hypertension as the primary clinical manifestations of age and not, feeding difficulties, Yi Jire, not crying, hyperactivity, seizures, difficult to discipline, vomiting, respiratory distress, cyanosis, serious headache as an, and so on. More atypical symptoms, are often misdiagnosed as headaches, gastrointestinal disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, epilepsy, and so on. Infant and child hypertension often without any clinical manifestations, is often the primary disease or have very serious complications of hypertension have taken place when found. Therefore, children, young people in the targeted blood pressure measurement is essential.

If parents find their children have the following situation should be promptly to the hospital for blood pressure checks: ① development and age do not match: many congenital diseases in the cause of growth retardation associated with high blood pressure and more at the same time, such as congenital aortic stenosis, congenital urinary System abnormalities, such as renal artery stenosis. ② obesity: obese children’s blood pressure is basically in the normal children the same age limit, with its higher degree of severity of obesity and the increased age. If the children found a body weight of the increase, but growth is relatively slow or even halt, and there looking Crimson, Hanmao many and long, should be vigilant endocrine diseases caused by hypertension. ③ urine anomaly: acute and chronic glomerulonephritis often lead to high blood pressure. ④ abnormal sexual development: whether boys or girls, if so abnormal sexual development (precocious puberty, there is no levy Second Sex), should be measuring blood pressure.

Children under 3 years old in the following circumstances should be regularly measured blood pressure: ① a premature birth, low birth weight or other neonatal intensive care to be a history of the disease; ② have congenital heart disease (the restored or repaired) history; ③ have repeated urinary tract System infection, hematuria or proteinuria; ④ have kidney disease or urinary system abnormalities; ⑤ a family history of congenital kidney disease; ⑥ entities after organ transplants; ⑦ suffering from cancer or have undergone bone marrow transplantation; ⑧ are taking on blood pressure-sensitive Drugs; ⑨ suffering from neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, and so frequently have high blood pressure systemic diseases; ⑩ increased intracranial pressure.

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In recent years the research shows that children’s blood pressure level of the big factors. Therefore, the children’s blood pressure should be determined combination of age, gender and other factors determine. High blood pressure in children should be reviewed after two weeks, three times in a row for the diagnosis of hypertension may be abnormal.

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And adult hypertension, high blood pressure children into primary and secondary hypertension hypertension. Children with secondary hypertension mainly with age, hypertension gradually increased the proportion.

The exact cause of primary hypertension is not clear, but genetic research tips and a certain relationship. A family history of hypertension than the children without a family history of hypertension children more prone to hypertension. Obesity, exercise too little, too much salt, nervous, irritable personality and so may lead to children suffering from hypertension.

Children of secondary hypertension are common causes of the following: ① kidney disease: glomerulonephritis, interstitial nephritis, renal artery stenosis, congenital urinary tract abnormalities and kidney cancer, the most common, accounting for about Secondary hypertension 80%. ② cardiovascular diseases: congenital patent ductus arteriosus, congenital aortic stenosis, the main artery Yandeng. ③ endocrine diseases: pheochromocytoma, adrenal hyperplasia, hyperthyroidism, and so on. ④ nerve: traumatic brain injury, cerebral vascular accident, hydrocephalus, meningoencephalitis, and so on. ⑤ External-derived drugs and poisons cause: hormone cortisol, cyclosporine, excessive vitamin D, and so on.

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At present, children should be integrated treatment of hypertension, including non-drug treatment and drug treatment. Specific phases of hypertension specialists should be determined.

1. Non-drug therapy

Non-pharmacological treatment of children is the key to the treatment of hypertension, the measures include: ① diet and exercise: no matter in what form (reduced calorie intake and increasing physical activity), can persist as long as the long-term, effective weight loss can lower blood pressure levels. Must be changed sedentary fixed (a long time watching television, playing computer games) way of life, physical exercise as a treatment means, running, cycling, swimming, playing, and other aerobic exercise to reduce weight and control of hypertension is very favorable . ② diet control: control the intake of salt, less sugar and fat, especially fried foods (potato chips, fried Wings) and sugary drinks. ③ spirit of factors: avoid prolonged Internet, learning lead to an excessive burden on the spirit of tension, to a relaxed environment for children, and also helps buck.

2. Drug Treatment

Children with high blood pressure, as a non-drug therapy three to six months invalid, two children with high blood pressure, and there has been the target organ damage in children with high blood pressure, subject to anti-hypertension drug treatment. Have made it clear the cause of children with high blood pressure, should be cause for treatment, and of multiple drug control blood pressure. Have renal artery stenosis and children with a narrow aorta, viable operation. Patients with hypertension need to take antihypertensive drugs, the preferred calcium antagonists and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. β-blockers as a nervous, high sympathetic activity in children with the first-line treatment of hypertension drugs.

Expert advice

Although children less hypertension than adult hypertension, but as people raise the level of economic, lifestyle changes and the popularity of conventional blood pressure measurement, the detection rate of hypertension in children showed an upward trend year by year. Parents should make a conscientious, once their children have found that strange, as soon as possible with children to hospital, in order to get early treatment.

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