what can cause a 14yr. old boy to have high blood pressure?

Answer 1

About 1% of children have blood pressure that is too high. The cause is often unknown. When a child's high blood pressure is severe, it is often because of another serious condition, such as kidney disease or heart disease.

Children can inherit high blood pressure from their parents. Overweight children are also at higher risk. Therefore, children who have both a family history and are overweight should be assessed carefully.


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If you child has high blood pressure, he needs to seek a medical professional and receive treatment before it causes damage to his/her body.

Answer 2

Obesity can cause hypertension even in teens. If it's stressful situational high blood pressure, i.e., going to the doctor's office, that would be caused by anxiety. In the case of anxiety the blood pressure should return to normal once out of the anxious situation. There are also some viral illnesses that can cause short term high blood pressure.

If it is high blood pressure that goes up and down, you should monitor the blood pressure about 4 times a day. Once on arising, then around noon, then mid day and again before going to bed. Note the blood pressure, what activity that was just completed. If after a meal, note what was eaten. Then after about 2 weeks, you can go back over the blood pressure diary and hopefully get a correlation between the high blood pressure and what occurred at the time it was taken. It is possible that some foods can cause short term high blood pressure.

If the high blood pressure is uncontrollable, then of course contact your physician. It could be an idication of a serious disease.

Answer 3

You should read "The Blood Pressure Solution" (also available in electronic format, watch the video presentation here: http://www.fixbloodpressure.com ) It's a very comprehensive step-by-step book that walks you through the natural remedies of high blood pressure. It provides you with a lot of information on what foods to eat, how you can acquire and prepare these foods, how you can change your lifestyle for the better, how to eliminate the toxins from your body, how to reduce stress, how you can check your blood pressure level the correct way etc.

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Answer 4

Does it run in the family? Check his thyroid, Is he overweight? Is he eating a lot of fatty food? All these can contribute to High Blood pressure

Answer 5

HBP is caused by many things, heredity is one and your diet can be another, Sleep Apnea, Arteriosclerosis, kidney related, there is no sure way to definitively determine the exact cause, but treatment is easy enough...Don't let it go untreated for years like I did...My HBP started around 43, thats when it first was discovered and that was 7 years ago..

Answer 6

Possibly too much salt in his diet. It's in pretty much all processed food, it gets added while cooking and then sprinkled on top of a meal at the table.

If he has fast food or take-aways regularly, there will most likely be a lot of salt intake with those also.

Answer 7

Is the boy overweight for his height ? Does HBP run in the family ? Does he have an undiagnosed heart condition ?

If no, then find out why the kid is so stressed out. Are the parents divorced, bitc_ing at one another, putting him in a position to pick sides ? Is he being picked on at school.

Make sure he gets proper rest, eats a balanced diet (less sodium including vegetables and fruit, and exercises to release daily stress.

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Answer 8

Anyone with an unhealthy diet can get high blood pressure.

Answer 9

General physical conditions (overweight, etc). Sometimes kidney problems influence blood pressure as well. Have him checked asap.

Answer 10

There are a ton of pressures on young kids. I'm an adolescent counselor, I should know. You look like the Dad. I'd ask him. I'd also ask myself about the pressures I put on my son.