Health expert Dr Shabana Solangi has advised parents having high blood pressure to regularly exercise and avoid excessive use of meat and tobacco to curb the chances of heart ailments in their children. While talking to APP on Friday, she said that if good treatment along with good diagnostic facilities was given to such children, 85 percent of them could reach their maturity age.
She said that children of hypertensive parents must visit doctors frequently as they were prone to high blood pressure. There was very rare abnormality of heart in children, she said adding that the ratio is 1 to 10,000. However, this does not lessen the importance of regular check-ups, she added. To a question, she informed that it was a commonest preventable acquired heart disease in developing countries and responsible for 40 to 60 per cent of admissions in cardiac wards and cardiac surgeries in poor countries.
The fever was caused by streptococcal infection of throat and could be prevented by either preventing sore throat from occurring or by treating it adequately with appropriate antibiotics, she observed. Dr Shabana said that using the non-surgical technique, doctors check defects inside the heart and treat them with devices through cardiac catheterization, without causing any incision, adding that after such treatment, the patient could go home within 24 hours.
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