Source: Mom's Handbook (ID: jqfans)
Author: Morning Mom
In March, everything is revived, spring is warm, and the children's growth season is coming again.
Whether it is the parent circle or other age groups, spring is undoubtedly recognized by everyone as a child with a long-term impact.
According to relevant surveys by the World Health Organization:
Children's growth rate has a significant seasonality, and the growth rate of children in spring is 1.5-2 times that of autumn and winter, of which spring (March to May) grows the fastest, with an average growth rate of 1.37 cm.
Therefore, after the weather warms up in March, we will see many parents taking their babies out, basking in the sun, doing sports and other scenes or circles of friends.
Although it is a family-friendly trip, there is no shortage of considerations for children to grow tall.
After all, in the parent circle, there has always been a proverb that "it is difficult to buy a centimeter with a thousand dollars", corresponding to life, it is bound to be able to grasp a point, is a point.
Because it is related to the child's future career development, and even dating and courtship.
Nowadays, many professions (flight attendants, pilots, art students, sports students, photography, etc.) have height requirements.
When I was a child, I didn't pay attention to it, and when I grew up, I could only grieve in vain!
However, the child's growth is not an overnight thing, and parents need to work hard!
Growing too fast is not necessarily a good thing
A 5-year-old boy is approaching 1.4 meters tall, and a 13-year-old boy is 1.7 meters tall.
Which height do you want to reproduce from your baby?
Perhaps many parents will choose the former, thinking that there is still a lot of room for 5-year-old boys to rise, and it will not be a problem to catch up with and surpass one meter and eight in the future.
Unfortunately, the 5-year-old boy was 1.4 meters tall, not normal, and was diagnosed with a congenital disease by the doctor during the physical examination.
This disorder can cause abnormal corticosteroid synthesis, resulting in too much male hormone, and androgens can prompt the child's epiphyseal line to close early.
Simply put, although 5-year-old boys are now catching up with their peers, their bone age has reached 13 years old, and it is difficult to grow taller after that.
Recently, some doctors have issued reminders about such phenomena:
"Growing up too quickly is risky" "Sudden increase in the height of a child may be a warning of precocious puberty"...
If parents find that children suddenly "stand out from the crowd" at a certain period of time and grow rapidly, they must be vigilant:
This may not be a sign of the child's sharp growth, but a sign of precocious puberty.
Because the height of the child is carried out at a uniform rate every year, but precocious puberty will make the child jerk up, but after the elevation, it will be in a state of stagnation.
Therefore, from the perspective of the entire age span, children are shorter than their peers.
Therefore, it is best to seek medical examination in time to prevent the adverse consequences of precocious puberty in children.
In particular, pay attention to factors that can lead to precocious puberty in children, such as obesity, plasticizers, sleeping with night lights on, and consuming too much fried chicken drink.
Remember, don't be greedy, science is the last word.
Don't let our negligence lead to news such as "8-year-old girls develop early and eventually get less than 1.5 meters tall".
It is better to grow one centimeter late than to cause the child to stop developing!
Children of different ages, height development criteria
Many times, part of the reason why parents blindly seek heights is that there is no concept of the standard height of children in different young segments.
Therefore, the concept of "high is good" will be formed in the mind.
In fact, the height development of children of each age has a certain regularity and a normal fluctuation range.
As long as the child fluctuates within this range, parents do not need to worry too much about their height.
Regarding children aged 0-6 years, it is recommended that the "Reference Standards for the Growth and Development of Children Under 7 Years of Age in China" formulated by the Ministry of Health prevail:
For the height development table of children and adolescents aged 7-18, please refer to the "Evaluation of The Height Development Level of Children and Adolescents Aged 7-18" issued by the Health Commission in 2018.
As for how to define whether the height is up to standard, we can look at a numerical value: [SD] represents the standard deviation.
Then, according to the standard deviation, the height development level can be divided into 5 levels:
5 levels
1
The height <-2SD is inferior, the growth rate is slow, and it is possible to have short stature;
2
Height ≥-2SD and <-1SD is moderate to lower, close observation is recommended;
3
Height ≥-1 SD and ≤ +1 SD is medium, that is, the "median" in the table, in the normal range;
4
Height > +1SD and ≤ +2SD is upper middle;
The height > 2SD is superior, and the child's growth rate is fast.
Parents can compare the height of their babies to see what stage they are at
For example, a 6-year-old boy is 121cm tall, indicating that he is between the median and [1SD], which is in the normal range.
Science grows tall and has a good trick
Generally speaking, there are thousands of factors that affect the growth of children, but in summary, there are four elements:
Nutrition, sleep, exercise and mood.
The relationship between sleep and growth hormone secretion, growth hormone and growth, has been covered in previous articles, and will not be repeated here.
24 hours a day, the amount of growth hormone secreted corresponds to
Talk to Morning Mom today about the three elements of "nutrition", "exercise" and "emotion".
Nutritional light supplementation is useless
There is no doubt that most of today's children are in the era of three no shortages, that is, "no shortage of food", "no shortage of drink", "no lack of love".
But since the child does not worry about eating and drinking, why is the height development unsatisfactory?
Presumably this is also the doubt of most of the mothers: usually there is no less supplement, how to refuse to grow, where to eat nutrition...
The key to the problem lies in "making up too much", "not being compensated for" and "intolerance".
Overnutrition can lead to overnutrition in children, causing obesity, which in turn affects height development;
Deficiency is not replenished, refers to children with bad spleen and stomach, relatively poor qi and blood operation, and insufficient absorption of nutrients;
Intolerance is for some children who are intolerant to milk, eggs and seafood, and their diet structure needs to be adjusted by parents.
In short, remember, do not blindly follow the trend, the premise of supplementing nutrition for children is tolerance, then the principle of moderation, and finally the promotion of absorption.
Exercise in moderation
Studies have found that scientific exercise promotes the secretion of growth hormone, and to a certain extent, it will also help children's height development.
At the same time, some studies have shown that:
Children who regularly participate in physical activity are on average 4-8 cm taller than children of the same age who do not participate in exercise.
Among them, especially jumping and stretching exercises, can most effectively stimulate bone development and make children grow faster and taller.
However, when parents exercise with their babies, they should keep in mind that "exercise should be appropriate, and do not pull out seedlings to promote growth."
Perhaps, some parents have brushed the news that "mothers force their children to jump rope 3,000 times a day, just to grow tall", which is a typical example of parents pulling seedlings to help grow.
Although the mother's starting point is to promote the child's growth, she is kind enough to do bad things.
Excessive exercise not only did not make the child grow taller, but made him suffer from epiphysitis of the tibia nodule.
In this regard, the doctor reminds that skipping rope is not the only choice for growing tall, and skipping rope should control the amount.
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Stable, pleasant mood
In the past cognition, the connection between children's emotions and growth has always been ignored by everyone.
But in fact, the child's emotions also have an important role in promoting height development.
Mainly because at the bottom of the human brain, there is a tissue called the hypothalamus.
The role is to stimulate and produce growth-promoting hormones based on various weak signals from the neural network.
If your child is overly nervous, it will lead to a decrease in their growth hormone secretion, resulting in stunting;
On the contrary, the child's mood is stable and happy, and it can also promote the secretion of growth hormone.
Like the usual anxiety of parents, it will be transmitted to the child, especially the words that often complain about "growing tall" in front of the child.
Invisibly, it will exert mental pressure on the child, and the result is bound to be that the more you want to grow taller, the longer you grow taller.
In the same way, if the child is in the parental quarrel and yelling for a long time, the harm to the baby is not as simple as psychology.
Parental reprimands will affect the child's sleep and growth hormone secretion, which in turn will affect physical development and height.
For the sake of children's physical and mental health and growth and development, from now on, stop your yelling and arguing, and create a relaxed and pleasant growth environment for children!
The child is like a small sapling, and the parents want him to grow into a towering tree.
In the process, you have to give him enough nutrients, proper exercise, high-quality sleep and a good mood
Then, you wait for the flowers to bloom and watch the child grow and grow taller day by day, becoming what we expect:
Straight posture, sunny and confident smiling face...
Click "In The Seeing" and "Praise", may our children: what they get is what they expect, all they ask for is what they want, and all they do is smooth.
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