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 a disease that actually suffered by the child."Hypertension can even attack the baby. Figures for hypertension in children has increased from 1-3 percent of the population of children to 10 percent," said consultant pediatrician child kidney disease Telogorejo Hospital Semarang, Rochmanadji Widajat in Semarang City, Saturday (10 / 10).Rochmanadi said, in children, hypertension is usually caused by kidney disease, central nervous, cardiovascular, and endocrine. However, hypertension can also be no known cause. Cases such as hyper tension are called primary 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 incidence of hypertension is not as high this time, parents are usually very rare to measure his blood pressure. Therefore, hypertension is identical with adults, especially those who are overweight, and parents.Children who suffer from mild hypertension, found no presence of other diseases. However, in children treated at the hospital found several systemic diseases that accompany hypertension. Diseases that include acute kidney disease, chronic kidney disease, tumors and severe infection (disease of the central nervous), constriction of blood vessels, and diabetes mellitus.The younger the age of the child, Rochmanadi say, the greater the likelihood that systemic diseases suffered by children who have hypertension. But children who are older, usually an disebabk suffered hypertension by diet and lifestyle."In infants, symptoms are usually fussy prolonged hypertension. While the big kids, the symptoms of hypertension include headaches, anxiety, palpitations, shortness of breath until," said Rochmanadi.Although not many, cases of hypertension in children, mentioned Rochmanadi can take up to adulthood and increase risk of heart disease and blood vessels.For that, parents need to avoid these risks by preventing the children who are growing to not being overweight (obesity), alert to children who are often sick with a fever (with or without other symptoms), alert to the child abdominal pain or recurring back pain, pain urination, and alert when the child's eyes look puffy in the morning.