What are the symptoms of childhood obesity?

With the improvement of material standards, the diet has become more and more abundant. Children eat more and gain weight quickly. Being overweight can bring great troubles to life and even induce various diseases. So what is considered obesity?

1. Visual inspection: This is the simplest method, and it is usually used for children with simple obesity. Usually, you look at the subcutaneous fat with the naked eye. If there is a lot of accumulation, the child looks hot, and generally you can make a rough judgment.

2 Height and weight standard method For babies of different ages, there is a calculation standard not only for height but also for weight, and there is a formula that can be applied. For children, if the weight is within 19% of the height standard weight, it is overweight, if it is within 29%, it is mildly obese, if it is within 49%, it is moderately obese, and if it exceeds 50%, it is severely obese.

3 Body Mass Index Method The body mass index method mainly considers the child’s age, gender and some other aspects. This method is used to judge obesity in adolescents and children, and it also needs to be combined with some other indicators.

4 Skin fold thickness measurement method The thickness of sebum is called skin fold thickness, which can be measured by X-ray, ultrasound, skin fold card line and other methods. For example, some children have more fat, while others have more developed muscles. In this case, the amount of body fat can be further calculated by measuring the skin fold thickness.

1. Subcutaneous fat accumulation. Obese children have more and more obvious fat accumulation under the skin, which is evenly distributed. A lot of this fat accumulates in the chest, abdomen, buttocks and neck. At the same time, the children will also have some white or purple lines on the skin of the abdomen, which look a bit like stretch marks. Some slightly obese children may also have pink lines on their bodies. Not only the body, but also the limbs will be very fat, looking swollen like elephant legs, especially the upper arms and buttocks.

2. Increased hormone levels in the body. Children with obesity have increased hormone levels in their bodies, especially boys. Because too much fat accumulates in the thighs and perineum, the penis is hidden by the fat tissue, making the genitals look very small. Sometimes it is easily misdiagnosed as genital retardation, but in fact there is no problem with the development of the genitals, and the size is still within the normal range.

3 Endocrine disorders Obese children may have endocrine disorders or metabolic disorders. For example, they often feel tired, sleepy, and tired after a little activity. They also feel breathless or have leg pain every time they move. They are inconvenient and clumsy in movement, and are prone to genu valgum or flat feet. They may fall easily when walking.

1. Since the blood lipids of obese children are significantly higher than those of normal children, they may develop atherosclerosis.

2. Since obesity is caused by a large amount of fat, it can easily cause diseases such as fatty liver. As time goes by, high blood pressure and high blood lipids will become dangerous signals for obese children to develop fatty liver.

3. If obese children do not control their diet, their immune system will gradually decline and cell activity will be significantly reduced, which can easily cause various infectious diseases.

4. Obese children are also prone to respiratory diseases because of the accumulation of fat on their chest wall, which compresses the expansion of the chest, reduces compliance, and limits the movement of the diaphragm, affecting the pulmonary ventilation function, thus greatly reducing the resistance of the respiratory tract and greatly increasing the chance of illness. 5. According to relevant data, obese children generally have hyperinsulinemia. In order to maintain normal life activities, they are forced to secrete a large amount of insulin, which leads to impaired insulin function and even causes diabetes.

6. In addition to physical diseases, another scary thing is depression. Due to various reasons, obese children have lower IQ and poorer reaction ability, which leads to inferiority complex, and in severe cases, they may suffer from mental illness.

Diet adjustment Diet adjustment is one of the main ways to deal with childhood obesity. Parents must prohibit children from eating some high-fat, high-calorie unhealthy foods, and ensure that the daily diet is light and nutritionally balanced, so as to prevent too much calories from entering the child's body through diet, leading to an increase in body fat content and aggravating childhood obesity. 2 Exercise Exercise is a very important treatment for childhood obesity. Moderate physical exercise can help obese children consume some excess fat in the body, and can also effectively improve their immunity and resistance. 3 Behavioral therapy The treatment of childhood obesity also includes behavioral therapy. Parents and children themselves must learn relevant knowledge and achieve the effect of effectively preventing and treating childhood obesity by cultivating various good living habits and eating habits. 4 Drug treatment The reason why some children are harmed by childhood obesity is that they are harmed by some metabolic diseases. Therefore, in the face of this situation, we need to use drug treatment in time to restore the metabolism of the child's body to normal, so as to achieve the effect of controlling and treating childhood obesity.