{"id":4157,"date":"2021-03-16T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohakkriti.com\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:08:21","slug":"how-bariatric-surgery-help-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohakkriti.com\/de\/how-bariatric-surgery-help-childhood-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Bariatric Surgery help in treating childhood obesity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to childhood obesity, a lot of factors affect decision making. Like the effectiveness, long-term side effects and also moral aspects. Childhood obesity and bariatric surgery also come with such ethical challenges. On the one hand, children are too young to give consent to treatment. On the other, sometimes it is the only option to prevent future obesity-related co-morbidities<\/a> from arising, such as Sleep Apnea, Eating Disorders, Type 2 Diabetes, Depression and Hypertension.<\/p>\n

How to diagnose childhood obesity?<\/strong>
\nIn a regular health care checkup, the health care provider measures your child\u2019s BMI and see where it falls on the BMI-for-age growth chart. This helps the doctor decide whether the child is overweight, underweight, or of an apt weight according to his age and height.<\/p>\n

Using this growth chart, the doctor calculates a child\u2019s percentile, comparing his weight to children of the same age and sex. Suppose a child is 70th percentile. This shows that compared with other children of the same age and gender, 70% have a lower BMI. Cut points on the growth chart helps in determining the severity of the weight problem:<\/p>\n