11/26/2012

Children of hypertensive patients how to care, parents is the key

Hypertension as a popular disease, in recent years has the tendency of young markers, many children with hypertension, and parents are unaware of children, because of their protective consciousness is weak, and not care about his body, many hidden safety trouble arose so. Early childhood hypertension often has no obvious symptoms, when the blood pressure increased significantly, there will be a headache, dizziness, vertigo, nausea and vomiting.

Infants who cannot speak, often exhibit irritability, crying, too excited, irritability, crying and screaming, night. Some patients with no increase in body weight, growth stagnation. High blood pressure as a child, also increased occurrence of headache and dizziness, palpitation dyspnea, blurred vision, convulsions, aphasia, hemiparesis, hypertensive crisis. Brain, heart, kidney and other organ damage is serious, can lead to stroke, heart failure, uremia, life-threatening.

Secondary hypertension in children in addition to the above-mentioned performance, accompanied by the onset of the symptoms, such as acute glomerular nephritis in children with elevated blood pressure, at the same time, have a fever, dropsy, hematuria, oliguria, protein in the urine. Pheochromocytoma patients except for elevated blood pressure, and heart palpitations, arrhythmias, excessive sweating, cold limbs and other symptoms. Renal artery stenosis, polycystic kidney disease in infancy can cause high blood pressure, and often have a fever in children, cough, swelling, pallor, fatigue, culminating in heart failure, is often misdiagnosed as heart disease.

Diagnostic criteria of hypertension in children is not uniform, usually above the age group that the percentile values of blood pressure, or above the mean plus two standard deviations. If the newborn is greater than 12.0/8.0kPa ( 90/60mmHg ), 13.3/8.0kPa ( 100/60mm Hg ) than infants, preschool children greater than 14.7/9.33kPa ( 110/70mmHg ), school-age children greater than 14.7/10.7kPa ( 110/ 80mmHg ), and after repeatedly confirmed, can diagnose.



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