How to determine obesity in children?

Many people say that children are cuter when they are a little fatter, but one thing you need to understand is that if children are too fat, it will actually have an impact on their health. So you need to pay attention to correctly judge whether children are obese. If they are obese, you need to urge them to lose weight scientifically.

1. Obesity can occur in children of any age, with the peak incidence being in children under 1 year old, 5-6 years old or adolescents. Children with this disease have a good appetite, like to eat greasy and sweet foods, are lazy to move, and are obese. The difference between children with this disease and those ... White or purple lines may occasionally be seen on the abdomen. The boy's external genitalia was mistakenly diagnosed as hypoplastic because of fat accumulation in the perineum, which covered the penis.

2. The weight exceeds that of children of the same age , and the height and bone age are both at the upper limit of children of the same age, with a few exceeding it. The intelligence is normal, and the sexual development is normal or advanced.

3. Obese children often have psychological disorders such as loneliness and inferiority complex, which can be the cause of obesity or one of the factors that maintain obesity.

In simple obese people, the insulin level in the blood is elevated, but there are no obvious abnormalities in the glucose tolerance test and fasting blood sugar. Blood total lipids, cholesterol, triglycerides and free fatty acids all increased. Ultrasound examination showed varying degrees of fatty liver.

4. Severely obese people may suffer from CO2 retention and hypoxia due to chest wall thickening , diaphragm elevation and difficulty in ventilation, resulting in shortness of breath, cyanosis, secondary erythrocytosis, cardiomegaly and congestive heart failure, which is called obesity cor pulmonale syndrome.