[Hot spots] How can children grow up to healthy and healthy children?

With the rapid development of my country's economy and society, the people's living standards have improved significantly, and the super -heavy obesity rate of children and adolescents has shown a rapid upward trend, which has become a public health problem that threatens the health of children in my country. Adult obesity indicators can be measured with the BMI index. What method should children and younger babies use to determine whether it is overweight or obese? Recently, the "People's Good Doctor" client of the People's Daily's new media platform invited Chen Xiaobo, director of the Department of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital affiliated to the Capital Pediatric Institute, and Liu Ziqin, chief physician, answered questions for the majority of netizens.

Chen Xiaobo and Liu Ziqin said in an interview that the criteria for judgment and adults of children's obesity are still some complicated. It is not a simple BMI index to solve it. In the process of continuous growth and development, children and children are constantly changing height and weight.

The period of infant and childhood is the rapid growth of fat cells, which can easily cause the overweight and obesity of children and children. Obesity during infants and young children will have an irreversible impact on future growth and health, and adolescent obesity will make it difficult to lose weight after adulthood. Therefore, it is necessary to pay special attention to the obesity indicators of children and children in these two periods and make intervention in time.

Infants under the age of 2, obesity indicators are measured by weight and height ratio with the age increase rate. The same gender and the same height. Compared with the average growth rate of children, the child's weight increase rate is more than 10%-19%, which is mild obesity or overweight; more than 20%, designated as obesity. Parents and friends can use visual inspection and measurement of monthly growth in order to facilitate measurement. Visual inspection is to compare with children of the same age and participate in the medical examination of students in schools and kindergartens in time. Measuring the number of monthly growth must be compared with the standard growth gram. For example, the average weight of a child's birth is 3 kg, about 6-7 kg by 6 months, and about 10 kilograms in the age of 1. This is the standard weight growth level. In the first six months, the average increase of 700 grams a month; 6 months to 12 months, an average increase of 500 grams a month. If you exceed too much, use the growth and development table to measure in time.

Adolescent children are basically evaluated with the BMI weight index like an adult. However, the difference is that more than 24 adults are overweight, and more than 28 belongs to obesity. The pediatrics use percentage, and the percentage of more than 85 BMI is overweight. The percentage of more than 90 BMI is called obesity. Severe obesity. There are also other standards. For different children, the content of fat and muscle are also different. Children with more exercise and have a large muscle weight. The body fat measuring instrument can observe the abdominal fat and the subcutaneous fat content of the abdominal, and how much weight is. Children's BMI is big, obese or strong, and can be measured in this way.

Children's overweight or obesity does not intervene in time, and children's diabetes may occur or cause other harms. With adulthood, obesity diseases such as arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease will be more likely to be. Parents and friends should pay close attention to their children's obesity problems and protect the healthy growth of children and children.

Source | People are a good doctor

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