Fatty liver in children is increasing “little fat pier” parents should be alert

  March 18 is the National Liver Day, experts from Shandong Provincial Hospital pointed out that eating more, exercising less, unbalanced diet and love of foreign fast food make more and more children grow into “little fat dun” while also facing the risk of developing fatty liver in children.  According to the deputy chief physician of hepatology department of Shandong Provincial Hospital, the chance of obese children suffering from fatty liver is high, and the incidence of fatty liver in children is increasing day by day. The youngest child with fatty liver he saw was only 13 years old, 1.60 meters tall and weighing more than 70 kilograms, and was diagnosed with moderate fatty liver by ultrasound, while liver function tests revealed that both glutamic transaminase and glutamic oxalacetic transaminase had exceeded the normal value by about two times, and the liver had been more seriously damaged.  ”Children with childhood fatty liver often don’t feel anything, so it’s easy to ignore.” Nowadays, very few parents take the initiative to bring their children to the hospital to check if they have fatty liver,” says KORO. In many cases, it is only during a health checkup or other tests that children are found to have childhood fatty liver, but in some cases, it has developed into steatohepatitis because it is not detected in time.” It’s actually easy to detect whether a child has fatty liver, as long as a liver ultrasound is done at the hospital.  Experts point out that the prevention and treatment of fatty liver in children should be prevention-oriented, parents should let children do more physical exercise, appropriate more housework, while parents should balance the child’s diet, less children consume too much calorie food and drinks, quantitative intake of protein, control the intake of sugar and fat, and to encourage children to eat more grains and cereals, vegetables and fruits, so as to prevent children from becoming This will not only prevent children from becoming “fatty”, but also effectively prevent children from becoming “fatty liver”.