Abstract
The aim of the paper is to provide a general practitioner for children and adolescents with an up-to-date view on the treatment of childhood obesity in the Czech Republic. In recent years, the group of obese and overweight children in the general pediatrician's office has become the second largest group with chronic diseases after the group of children with allergic diseases.
According to current statistics, about 80 children with obesity are registered in an average children's surgery. Of these, an average of 50 children are indicated for the long-term treatment of obesity from the medical indication, 15 children for targeted diet modification, and in almost every surgery there is one child with pathognomic obesity.
Effective treatment of childhood obesity is based on the Recommended Practices for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity (Vox pediatriae 7/2009), which have been adopted by the general professional community as a basic standard. The main method of treating childhood obesity is long-term individual cognitive-behavioral therapy, which affects the entire family unit.
Diet therapy and physiotherapy have auxiliary educational significance. Group stay programs are designed to potentiate reductions, bridge relapses and are important as an element of above-standard rewards.