In recent years, with the rapid economic development and steady improvement in people's living standards, teenagers' physical quality has improved compared to the past. However, at the same time, another health concern for teenagers due to obesity and overnutrition has emerged: the increasingly severe phenomenon of "little fatties" clustering.
"Within a few days, I received four severely obese young patients, two of whom died before receiving comprehensive treatment, resulting in a mortality rate as high as 50%," said Yu Shuzhong, director of Changchun Kangda Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital and Changchun Obesity Research Institute. According to Yu Shuzhong, on a night in mid-March this year, five-year-old Xiao Huoyan (a pseudonym) suddenly suffocated to death while sleeping at home. The cause of death was obesity combined with asthma. At the time of his passing, Huoyan, who was 1.2 meters tall, weighed 65 kilograms, classifying him as a severely obese patient.
It is understood that after Huoyan's birth, he frequently had fevers and later developed bronchitis, necessitating long-term treatment with hormone-containing drugs, which directly led to him developing drug-induced obesity, followed by asthma. When Huoyan first visited Kangda Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for weight loss at the age of three, he was so overweight that he could barely walk. Although the weight loss program helped him lose 5 kilograms, due to reasons such as his parents' divorce, Huoyan stopped treatment halfway through, resulting in an increase of 20 kilograms in six months. As the only professional weight loss institution in Jilin Province, Yu Shuzhong has ten years of experience in weight loss treatment. He said that if Huoyan had not stopped his weight loss treatment, he "might not have passed away so early."
Xu Jingyun, a "little fatty" from Dunhua City, Jilin Province, also passed away suddenly due to multiple complications caused by obesity and respiratory failure. It is understood that at the age of six, Jingyun weighed 15 kilograms, but her weight rapidly increased when she was eight. By the age of twelve, standing at 1.49 meters tall, she weighed 151 kilograms with a waist circumference of over five chi, making breathing and daily life difficult. To reduce her weight, Jingyun's mother brought her to Kangda Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for weight loss treatment. During her hospital stay, Jingyun was diagnosed with ovarian cysts caused by obesity. After consultation with experts from the First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, it was decided to remove the cyst first before proceeding with other treatments. Although the surgery went smoothly, due to her excessive fat layer, the incision that would normally heal in seven days for a regular person never fully healed until Jingyun's passing.
According to Zhu Xiaobo, then chief physician of the neurosurgery department at the First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University and Jingyun's attending doctor, shortly after the surgery, Jingyun suffocated to death due to breathing difficulties.