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As long as it is a parent with a baby, as soon as they go out, they like to talk about the parenting scripture, and in the parenting scripture, the two children will be taller than each other.
Because the child's age is similar, the parents of the child who grows taller in height will be very happy, because they feel that they have raised their babies well and their children are good.
But in fact, the growth of children is cyclical, and there are generally two growth peaks.
One is before the age of three: the child's height growth is relatively fast before the age of three, growing by 25 centimeters per year from birth to the age of one, and the average annual length of the year to the age of one to three is 10 centimeters.
The other is the child's adolescence: the general child's puberty will begin around the age of 11, lasting 2 to 3 years, the child's height will increase by about 10 cm per year, and the height of an adolescent child will increase by 25 to 30 cm.
In addition to the two peak growth periods, the growth and development of children in the period of 4-10 years old is relatively balanced, generally at a rate of 5 to 8 centimeters per year.
The Central One has a column for health propaganda, inviting Wu Xueyan, chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, to popularize the science of children's precocious puberty.
Director Wu mentioned that it is not a good thing for children to grow up fast, but to be wary of precocious puberty.
When the child is at the peak of growth, the height growth is relatively symmetrical, if the child is not puberty, for example, only 8 years old, but the child's height suddenly surges, 10 cm a year long, or even 12 cm.
Parents must not think that it is a good thing, do not be happy, this is most likely not a good thing, may prompt the child to have precocious puberty, the child's bone age in advance leads to the child's height growth in advance.
Once the child's height growth is advanced, it means that the time for the child's height growth is shortened, and the child's height grows faster, but it suggests that the child's height will be shorter after adulthood.
For example, normal children will not be fixed until they are 16 years old or even 18 years old, but if the child starts to grow rapidly at the age of 8, the child's height may grow to 14 years old, which will make the child grow less than two years, which is equivalent to missing more than ten centimeters.
As a parent who finds that his child has not reached puberty, he will grow taller, do not be happy, and do not take it lightly.
Instead, it is recommended to take the child to the endocrinology department or the child growth and development department as soon as possible to carry out relevant examinations to determine whether the child is precocious puberty and cooperate with the doctor's advice for treatment.
Precocious puberty will hinder the growth of children's height, and will also lead to children's inferiority, so why do children have precocious puberty?
There are four main reasons for children's precocious puberty, and parents should respond one by one and try to avoid them
First: heredity
The secretion of hormones in children is related to heredity, if the parents are precocious puberty, height growth is relatively fast, then the probability of precocious puberty in children will be higher.
【JingMa Suggestion】
Parents who develop relatively early in the year must pay attention to the child's development signs, especially when the child is not developing, but also to avoid the child's contact or eating some things that may cause precocious puberty.
Second: low birth weight infants
Director Wu Xueyan mentioned that if the child is born at full term, but the birth weight is low, the probability of precocious puberty in adulthood will be higher.
For example, if a child is born at 38 weeks, but weighs only 4 pounds, then the child is more likely to have precocious puberty when he becomes an adult.
Parents of these children should monitor the child's development as soon as possible, and once there are signs of precocious puberty, take them to the doctor as soon as possible.
Third: improper diet
For example, children eat high-fat and high-sugar foods every day, and high-fat and high-sugar foods can easily lead to children's obesity, once the child has too many fat cells, it will stimulate the child's endocrine and cause children to have precocious puberty.
Or there are plasticizers in the child's tableware, such as disposable lunch box plastic bags, etc., which may have environmental hormone phthalates, children often use these fast food boxes to eat, which may cause precocious puberty
The child's diet should be rich and diverse, and it is low sugar, low fat and low salt, which is more conducive to the health of the child, and the daily diet is balanced not only to eat meat, but also to eat vegetables and to eat staple foods.
Fourth: environmentally caused
For example, sleeping likes to open a small night light for the child, and the night light will affect the secretion of melatonin in the child, melatonin is also a hormone of the child, if the secretion of melatonin is reduced, it will also stimulate the child's endocrine system to cause precocious puberty.
In addition to turning on the night light for children to sleep, avoid playing with all kinds of inferior plastic toys for children.
Because this may contain plasticizers, the phthalates in the plasticizer are an environmental hormone that stimulates the child's endocrine and causes precocious puberty.
If the child suddenly grows taller, if it is not puberty, parents should not be secretly happy, but should take the child to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.
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