Whether a child can grow to the ideal height depends on this age group!

The height of the child has always been a concern for parents, and today's content will break everyone's inertial thinking, in addition to genetics, there are other reasons why the child is not tall.

Let's start with a real-world case:

The 16-year-old boy who was 162cm tall for life cried

Since elementary school, Xiaofeng has been attending basketball training classes and playing a good hand. However, by high school, his height of 162cm was increasingly unopposed on the basketball court, especially after entering high school, he thought he would grow taller and found that he had not grown taller for more than a year.

This afternoon, Xiao Feng finally made up his mind to come to the hospital's specialist clinic after taking the exam. "Doctor, you help me measure my bone age and see how much taller I can grow."

After the doctor who received the treatment looked at Xiaofeng's bone age film, he could only shake his head helplessly.

Since Xiaofeng's epiphyseal had been closed, the doctor told him that he had no room to grow tall, and his lifelong height was fixed at 162cm...

Hearing this news, Xiaofeng couldn't believe his ears, "My dad has 178cm, my mom has 162cm, how is it possible?" ”

Xiao Feng, who had greater expectations for his height, was anxious to cry. In this regard, the doctor also expressed regret, "If only I had come to see it earlier." ”

It is understood that the height of Xiaofeng's parents belongs to the upper middle level, and Xiaofeng has been at the middle and upper level since elementary school, and the height in the class belongs to the middle and upper level, and his parents are not worried about his height at all, and they have never paid attention to his height, and they always feel that the back will grow taller.

This led to Xiao Feng not measuring bone age once from childhood to adulthood, and by the time he remembered to measure bone age, it was too late.

What Xiao Feng did not expect was that his height, which had not been short, was at the expense of early development.

Two types of children are most likely to overlook height

The doctor said that recently met several high school students, who are very concerned about their height and take the initiative to measure bone age.

Their reasons for measuring bone age vary, some of them are in adolescence, they begin to care about their appearance, and some are because of the need to engage in sports... Unfortunately, most of them no longer have the potential to grow taller.

Doctors have found in their daily clinics that there are two types of children who are most likely to overlook height problems:

The first is to treat short stature as a late grow, always thinking that the child develops late, and then will pull out a tall, but in the late stage of the child's development, the situation is not good to treat, this time the epiphyseal is close to closure, which does not help.

The other is that, as in the case at the beginning, the small is tall, but at the expense of early development.

Precocious puberty is blinding, and children with precocious puberty will be taller than children of the same age, but the growth period will also end earlier. If you do not grasp the key time point of growing tall and intervene, it is easy to cause the child to fail to reach the ideal height.

Seize the key stage of 3 to 12 years old to grow tall

If you want your child to reach their ideal height, experts say they want to seize two key periods when your child grows taller: 3 to 12 years old and 4 to 10 years old.

3 to 12 years old is an important stage that affects a child's final height. Among them, 4 to 10 years old is the best treatment period for short stature, when epiphyseal cells differentiate and proliferate, and the treatment effect is better.

The earlier the epiphyseal closure is understood, and the earlier the intervention, the greater the likelihood that the child will grow taller.

For parents, it is necessary to pay attention to bone age. Bone age is the main basis for predicting adult height, and it can also more accurately reflect the child's development level, and can also monitor the occurrence of precocious puberty.

At present, children are developing at an earlier and earlier age, with an average age of 9 and a half years for girls and 11 and a half years for boys.

Therefore, doctors suggest that girls are about 8 years old and boys are about 10 years old, and you can measure bone age once to monitor growth and development.

If the bone age is normal, it is checked every other year. After entering puberty, it is best to check every 3 to 6 months according to the individual situation.

Want to grow taller and do these four things well

Growing tall is the wish of many parents, and doctors have given three magic weapons for growing tall: sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mood.

Sleep quality

Rather than going to bed early, Dr. Wang believes it is more important to ensure sleep time and sleep quality. Growth hormone is generally only secreted during deep sleep, so it is more critical to ensure deep sleep. For example, some snoring children are not easy to sleep deeply, and they must first solve related problems.

Motion stretching

You can do more stretch-related sports, such as: jump rope, high jump, running, pulling horizontal bars, basketball, swimming, etc.

Nutritionally balanced

Today's children often eat too much too well, resulting in precocious puberty, so they should pay attention to nutritional balance. Ensure a diversified diet, eat more high-fiber, high-protein foods, and eat less foods high in fat and sugar. Drink about 250ml of pure milk every day, do not drink sweet milk drinks, for some fat children, it is recommended to drink low-fat or even skim milk.

Happy mood

If the child has psychological stress or emotional depression, it will lead to growth hormone secretion disorders, affecting the growth of height. Remember to properly understand the pressure for the child in time is also an important factor to ensure that the child grows tall.