The phrase "height is a hard injury" is basically heard from childhood, especially when looking for an object, height is an unavoidable topic.
Now that we have a baby, everyone's focus on height has naturally shifted to the baby. The family posted a height measurement chart, and also specially bought a soft ruler to measure height, worried that the baby's development is not good enough:
"I'm not particularly tall, so does the baby have to be short?"
"How old should you be, what are the standards, and have your children reached the standard?"
"How can a child grow taller?"
Today, let's talk to you about how much the child's height is up to standard, and introduce the way to make the baby's size go up again.
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Parents are not tall, children must be short?
There is a saying that "the mother is short, the shorter is a nest", is the influence of the parents' height on the child decisive?
not necessarily.
Xiaobian has a high school classmate, his father is about 1.7, his mother is about 1.55, and he is tall enough to reach 1 meter 8. When the students knew, they all joked with him and said, "You are a genetic mutation."
Pan Changjiang is only 160 tall, and his wife is not tall, but his daughter is much taller than him
70% of a child's height is genetically determined, and the remaining 30% is influenced by the acquired environment. Don't ignore the 30% impact, which is 8.5cm floating
The final height of a child's future adulthood can usually be predicted by a rough calculation of the parent's height, which is medically called "genetic target height".
Source: BGI Mother and Baby
However, the expected height is normal within the range of 8.5cm up and down the above calculations. That is, everything is possible...
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Baby height and weight
How much to meet the standard
In order for children to develop their potential and grow taller, parents should pay more attention to their children's height development.
The study found that most parents are very concerned about their children's height, but only 1/4 of parents measure their children's height every three months.
Image source: CNKI screenshot
If parents can detect the height of the child, take appropriate measures to promote the child's physical development according to the situation, and often make the child's height reach the best. Therefore, it is recommended that mothers record the height and weight of their babies every three months.
Height of boys under 7 years of age (long)
Standard value (cm)
Note: The length is before 3 years old, and the height is after 3 years old and after 3 years old
Source: Department of Maternal and Child Health and Community Health, Ministry of Health
Height of girls under 7 years of age (long)
How to see it?
First find the baby's age in the first and second columns on the left, and then look horizontally to see which range the baby's height is in.
The SD after Age/Month Old is standard deviation and is normal as long as your baby's height is between -2SD and +2SD.
If the height is less than -2SD, it indicates that the baby is short, and if the height is greater than +2SD, the baby is taller than most of his peers.
For example:
A 6-month-old baby boy is 67 cm tall, indicating that he is between the median and +1SD, which is the normal range.
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Under what circumstances should I see a doctor?
The normal height range is between -2SD and +2SD. That is to say, outside of these two ranges, it is short or too tall.
Short stature needless to say, if it is too high before puberty, parents need to be wary of the possibility of precocious puberty. It is necessary to evaluate it based on the genetics of height, as well as the child's diet and sleep, to see what is wrong.
In addition to the current height, growth rate is equally important:
For children aged 2 to 4 years, increase in height by at least 5.5 cm per year;
For children aged 4 to 6 years, the height increase is at least 5.0 cm per year;
For children aged 6 years to before puberty, the height increase is at least 4 cm per year for boys and at least 4.5 cm for girls.
If these values are not reached in a year, it is recommended to take your child to the hospital to see.
There are three main reasons why a child's height is growing too fast or too slowly:
1. Genetics: If both parents are tall or short, the child may also be taller/shorter than their peers.
2. Nutrition: Most of the growth retardation in infancy and early childhood is related to nutrition, improper feeding will cause children to grow slowly, and excess nutrition will lead to obesity in children.
3. Hormones: Some of the growth too slow may be caused by insufficient growth hormone secretion, or it may be caused by congenital hypothyroidism, resulting in thyroxine deficiency, but these children in addition to short stature, there are problems such as mental retardation; temporary growth may also be precocious puberty.
No matter what the reason, you need a doctor to diagnose, do not delay the medical treatment, do not make your own judgment, and do not blindly use "folk remedies" to increase the height.
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Those pit babies' "grow tall folk remedies"
1. Increased broken bones
The so-called "broken bone elevation" is called "limb elongation" in medicine.
As early as 2006, the Mainland Health Commission issued the "Notice on the Strict Management of "Limb Elongation"", which stipulates that the technical indications are bone defects or limb unequal length caused by congenital malformations, trauma, tumors, infections, etc., as well as limb deformities caused by diseases.
The use of limb augmentation is strictly prohibited if the above indications are not met; limb augmentation is also strictly prohibited for cosmetic projects.
Source: National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China
Feel free to go to some black clinics and small workshops to do this operation, the consequences may be unbearable for you.
Last year, a young man in Jiangsu felt inferior because he was less than 1.8 meters tall, and went abroad to do bone augmentation surgery, resulting in a serious infection of his legs after surgery and could not walk, and may face lifelong disability.
Source: Weibo @ China News Weekly
2. Heightening drugs
Is there really a "heightening drug" in the world?
The child's growth and height are mainly dependent on the secretion of growth hormone, and no oral drug has a definite "heightening" effect, and growth hormone injections need to be determined by the doctor after a series of professional examinations.
In other words, none of the so-called "boosting" and "boosting" products that you can buy on the market now are true!
Eat some inappropriate drugs, and may also eat precocious puberty, and never grow tall again!
3. Heightening needle
Grow tall mainly by growth hormone? Then I will give the child a shot directly!
But in fact, growth hormone is used to treat diseases, and must be used under the guidance of a professional doctor.
If you give a normal child growth hormone, it is likely to cause the child endocrine disorders, abnormal bone growth, high blood pressure, acromegaly and other health problems!
4. Growth sticker, handstand
In addition to oral drugs, there are also many external enhancement drugs on the market.
Casual search on the e-commerce platform can see this kind of publicized "heightened sticker" products, which are also known as "challenging the limit" and "fearless of heredity".
Image source: Screenshot of an e-commerce platform
There is also a sticker for acupuncture points, which is known to be attached to the corresponding acupuncture points to sleep, and it is easy to grow taller when you get up the next morning and take it off.
These products, without exception, are not state-approved regular drugs, and there is no detailed description of topical drugs on the introduction page of these products, and it is completely unclear what the specific ingredients are.
In fact, most of the drugs can not be completely absorbed by the human body through the skin, if the external patch can really help children grow tall, that is to overcome a major medical problem, not to win the Nobel Prize can not be said.
There are also these exercise equipment that claim to help grow tall, and the principle is nothing more than doing leg stretching exercises.
This kind of exercise can be done at home without spending money! Why spend thousands of dollars to buy a machine that occupies a place?
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How to help a baby grow up scientifically?
There are three key periods for determining a child's height: infancy (0 to 3 years), school age (3 to 7 years), and adolescence (8 to 14 years).
If we can make adjustments to the acquired factors that affect height, diet, exercise, sleep, mood, illness, etc., we can effectively help the baby grow to the best height!
1. Maintain a balanced diet
For the baby's diet, we advocate balanced nutrition, as much as possible to provide different kinds of ingredients, especially meat and vegetarian combinations should be appropriate, do not always favor which category.
On this basis, pay attention to vitamin D supplementation, others do not need too much supplementation.
2. Appropriate outdoor activities every day
For babies, the secretion of growth hormone brought about by reasonable exercise is also one of the factors that promote the growth of children.
The World Health Organization recommends that adolescents and children aged 5 to 17 years should be given a cumulative 1 hour of moderate-high-intensity exercise per day, at least 3 times a week.
For smaller infants and young children, under the premise of conforming to the law of development, guide the baby to exercise the ability to turn over, sit, stand, climb and walk, and it is best to ensure more than 2 hours of outdoor activity time every day.
3. Ensure quality sleep
There are many types of growth hormone, and many types need to be better secreted after entering deep sleep.
Therefore, ensuring that the child's daily sleep time is sufficient is more conducive to growing tall:
Sleep about 11-14 hours a day before the age of 3
3-12 years old sleep about 10 hours a day
Sleep about 8 hours a day after the age of 12
However, if the baby has the habit of waking up frequently at night, eating night milk, hugging and sleeping, etc., even if the sleep time is enough, it may not be high-quality sleep. These habits will reduce the baby's deep sleep time, which is not conducive to the secretion of growth hormone, or it is better to correct it as soon as possible.
Finally, I wish every child a good meal, a good night's sleep, and a healthy and happy growth!
(Source: Maternal and Infant Vision)