Beware of Hypertension in Children

Parents should be aware of hypertension or high blood pressure that occurs in children as soon as possible. Hypertension in children is usually a symptom of the real disease suffered by children.

"Hypertension can even attack the baby. The number of hypertension in children has increased from 1-3 percent of the child population to 10 percent," said consultant pediatrician children with kidney disease Telogorejo Hospital Semarang, Rochmanadji Widajat in the city, Saturday (10 / 10).

Rochmanadi said, in children, usually caused by hypertension, kidney disease, central nervous, cardiovascular, and endocrine. However, hypertension can also cause unknown. Such cases referred by primary hyper tension or essential hypertension.

Dangerous when the cause of hypertension is unknown. Therefore, parents must be constantly vigilant with her blood pressure measured regularly.

Before the high incidence of hypertension is not present, parents are usually very rare to measure his blood pressure. Because hypertension is identical with adults, especially those who are overweight, and parents.

Children who suffered from mild hypertension, may not find any other disease. However, in children treated at the hospital found several systemic diseases that accompany hypertension. These diseases include acute kidney disease, chronic kidney disease, tumors and severe infections (central nervous diseases), narrowing of blood vessels, and diabetes mellitus.

The younger the age of the child, Rochmanadi says, the greater the likelihood of systemic diseases were suffered by children who have hypertension. But children who are older, usually hypertension an disebabk suffered by diet and lifestyle.

"In infants, symptoms are usually fussy prolonged hypertension. While the big kids, symptoms of hypertension include headaches, anxiety, palpitations, shortness of breath that," said Rochmanadi.

Although not many, cases of hypertension in children, mentioned Rochmanadi can take up to adulthood and increase the risk of heart disease and blood vessels.

For that, parents need to avoid these risks by preventing the growing child for not being overweight (obesity), alarmed by a child who is often sick with a fever (with or without other symptoms), alert to the child's stomach pain or recurring back pain, pain urination, and alert when a child's eyes look puffy in the morning.