What to do if your child has lipoma

Due to abnormal cell division, the fat in the cells will be split into leaf-like shapes. When the fat continues to accumulate, it will eventually form a soft large mass, which becomes a lipoma. There are many reasons for this disease, but the main one is due to abnormal cell division. While people of all ages may suffer from this disease, if children have lipoma, more attention should be paid to their fragile bodies.

What should I do if my child has a lipoma?

If a child develops a lipoma, parents should take him or her to the hospital for examination in time, observe the size of the lipoma, and then determine the treatment plan based on the size of the lipoma.

The treatment principles for lipomas are as follows:

1. Small (less than 1 cm in diameter) and multiple lipomas generally do not require treatment.

2. Larger tumors should be removed surgically. Cure: The tumor was completely removed without recurrence.

The only effective treatment is surgical resection. For those with multiple tumors (some patients may have more than a hundred), they can only choose to remove the ones that have the greatest impact and are most painful first. There is no cure yet. Some use liposuction, making a small incision in the skin and inserting a suction tube to remove larger lipomas or localized fat excess without leaving noticeable scars. Of course, this is also a local treatment.

In addition, children should develop good eating habits in their daily lives, eat regularly, eat breakfast on time, and eat well to nourish their liver and spleen. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, low-fat, low-cholesterol foods. Low-cholesterol foods include mushrooms, black fungus, celery, eat less spicy foods such as chili peppers and raw garlic, drink more water, exercise more, and keep your mood happy and your emotions stable.

How to prevent lipoma

Lipomas generally occur in the trunk, limbs, and abdominal cavity. There is a clear boundary between lipoma and surrounding tissue; lipoma is soft in texture, grows slowly, and most are small in size. This tumor is composed of differentiated and mature fat cells, and the tumor tissue is divided into fat lobules of varying sizes by fibrous cords. Among them, lipomas with more fibrous components are also called fibrolipomas, and lipomas with rich blood vessels are also called angiolipomas.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the formation of lipoma is related to the liver and spleen. Therefore, people who are often angry, irritable, and overly worried are more likely to suffer from this type of disease. Irregular daily diet can also damage the liver and spleen, especially patients who skip breakfast for a long time and those who eat high-cholesterol foods for a long time are most likely to suffer from this type of disease. Therefore, the prevention of lipoma mainly lies in diet:

1. Eat and live regularly, and be more active and exercise more.

2. Eat a light diet and avoid high-fat and high-cholesterol foods.

3. You can take some lipid-lowering and fat metabolism-promoting drugs such as alginate disodium, Zhibituo, evening primrose oil pills, gypenosides, inosine, adenosine triphosphate, etc., or drink hawthorn tea frequently to reduce fat accumulation in the body.