Hypertension: treatment

Hypertension: treatment

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Treatment for hypertension focuses on reducing and controlling your child’s blood pressure.

Eating a healthy diet with lots of fruit and vegetables and no added salt as well as getting plenty of exercise can help to reduce blood pressure.

If your child has chronic kidney disease they may need to make more changes to their diet. A kidney dietitian will help you with this.

Some children will also be prescribed medicines. Contact your doctor straight away if your child is vomiting (being sick) and cannot take their medicine for more than 24 hours (1 day).

About the future

Uncontrolled hypertension can increase the risk of getting heart disease, chronic kidney disease (CKD) or having a stroke.

Your child will be carefully monitored by your GP or hospital to make sure their blood pressure stays controlled.

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