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 illness suffered by the child's true. "Hypertension can affect even infants. Rate of hypertension in children increased from 1-3 percent of the population of children to 10 percent," said consultant pediatrician child kidney disease Telogorejo Hospital Semarang, Semarang Rochmanadji Widajat on 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. Such cases are called hyper tension with primary or essential hypertension.
Harmful when the cause of hypertension is unknown. Therefore, parents must be constantly alert to measure his blood pressure regularly.
Before the occurrence of hypertension is not as high this time, parents are usually very rare to measure her blood pressure. Therefore, hypertension is identical to the 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 infections (central nervous system disease), constriction of blood vessels, and diabetes mellitus.
The younger the age of the child, Rochmanadi say, the more likely that systemic diseases suffered by children who have hypertension. But children who are older, usually an disebabk hypertension suffered by diet and lifestyle.
"In infants, symptoms are usually fussy prolonged hypertension., While in older children, symptoms of hypertension include headaches, anxiety, palpitations, shortness of breath up," 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.
To that end, parents need to avoid these risks by preventing the growing child not to be overweight (obese), alert to children who are sick with a fever (with or without other symptoms), alert to the child's stomach or recurring back pain, pain urination, and alert when a child's eyes look puffy in the morning.