What about obesity in elementary school students?

  Obesity has long been a worldwide problem. In our country obese patients are also increasing, especially the obese children’s incremental rate is more alarming. In the child obesity, the vast majority belongs to simple obesity, is due to overeating, less movement, and lifestyle closely related to the chronic disease; part of the family history of obesity, and genetic related, only a few secondary to the central nervous system pathology, endocrine disorders and genetic metabolic diseases.  After later research found that some of the obese children will later develop into adult obesity. Obesity at an early age is not only a risk factor for diabetes, atherosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease, but also causes psychological disorders in children and produces “social withdrawal” and affects the growth and development of children.  If we pay attention to reasonable feeding from birth, and actively follow the guidance of child health physicians in multiple management measures such as diet, exercise and behavior when overweight or obesity is found, there will not be so many “fat mounds”. Can not adhere to the child management. So that parents with children to school and then come to the hospital when I saw the elementary school students have entered puberty or pre-puberty, and is already heavy or even very heavy obesity. And most exist fatty liver, blood pressure, blood sugar, lipid abnormalities.  Tangled is: 1, many parents because of children’s study tension, delayed not to take the child examination or consultation to make obesity situation aggravated and cause correction more difficult.  Parents often go to endocrine clinics under the misconception or fear of precocious puberty, but of course most of the indicators are normal and they think there is no big problem and go back, not thinking that they have to go to child health clinics for professional help.  3. Even if some parents go to the pediatric clinic, since this lifestyle disease mainly relies on diet control, exercise and behavior management, and relies on the joint efforts of children, parents and schools to slowly achieve results, parents originally hope to find a time-saving and special drug to “lose weight”, but after receiving consultation, they realize that this idea is unrealistic. It is possible that parents are afraid of trouble and have little awareness of the dangers of obesity and no sense of urgency, so few families bring their children to the clinic regularly to assess the effects. Regularly come to the outpatient clinic by the doctor stage assessment to develop a practical program.  4, there is a follow-up, even a year apart, not only obesity degree aggravated, and lipid change some have liver damage.  Although there is no special medicine, but obese children regularly come to the health care clinic, by the professional doctor for stage evaluation, develop a practical program, is very important to whether the successful control of obesity and complications. At least the following points are significant: 1, elementary school children can already discipline themselves and are more inclined to follow the doctor’s advice, so they can continue to consolidate the results already achieved.  2, the doctor can check whether the child has recently followed the medical advice to control diet, exercise and behavior change, and what difficulties affect the implementation, so that the improvement measures are more practical and feasible.  3. If lipid and blood glucose abnormalities or fatty liver are already present, the doctor can develop or adjust a diet plan to protect liver and kidney function.