The height of the child is a concern of every family, but most parents have taken many detours and missed the opportunity to help their children grow taller.
Surveys show that:
More than 1/3 of parents do not know that their child's height needs to be measured regularly;
70% of parents do not know how much their child grows each year to be normal;
1/4 of parents are looking for ways to help their children grow taller through the Internet and books;
Nearly 80% of adult parents do not know the best stem expectations for their child's height [1].
Have you been recruited by all of the above? In every 10 children who are shorter in height, 2 feel inferior, unwilling to participate in group activities, and some even become emotionally out of control and more likely to get angry. Therefore, to correctly understand the fact that children grow tall, parents cannot delay.
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If we want our children to grow taller, we must seize the "validity period" of increasing height. So what is the validity period?
Many parents think that girls menstruate and boys change their voices is the long period of children, in fact, at this time, the child's development has basically matured.
Within 1 to 3 years of puberty, children will grow faster, mostly more than 7 cm a year, and more often than 10 cm. But later, developmental sex hormone secretion causes the bones to gradually close, and the growth rate quickly becomes slower until it no longer grows.
If parents wait until their children reach the stage of development before they begin to help their children grow, it becomes more difficult to increase their heights on the basis of the original.
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So when should the right time to intervene?
Generally, doctors will advise you to see a doctor when you find your child short.
It is best to have your child's height reach the normal standards of peers before the child develops adolescence (see table below). Puberty generally refers to girls aged 11-12 years and boys aged 12-13 years.
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Many parents are only after the child's puberty began to worry about the height of the child, the more such parents are eager to be high, often will be advertised in the market some of the "height secrets" deceived, causing huge losses, not to mention, sometimes affecting the normal speed of the child itself.
Many parents think that their children can grow taller by supplementing calcium, and some parents even "force" their children to drink milk to supplement calcium at every meal. So, will drinking milk really help your child grow up?
Before answering this question, let's take a look at what factors affect the growth of children?
Genetic factors: congenital genetic factors will affect 60% to 70% of the child's final height, parents do not have to be discouraged, if you seize the child's growth acceleration period, it is still relatively easy to increase the height of 3 to 5 cm on the basis of the original genetic height [2].
Nutrition: Nutrition is the material basis of a child's development, and insufficient or incomplete absorption of nutrients can lead to slow growth.
Exercise and sleep: The secretion of growth hormone increases during exercise and sleep, which can affect your child's height.
Precocious puberty: Once precocious puberty occurs, the child's growth potential will be overdrawn, the bones will be closed early, and the final height will be shorter than that of children of the same age. You may ask, will eating royal jelly, pigeon eggs, and fried foods cause precocious puberty? In fact, these foods are not high hormone content and cause precocious puberty, but too much nutrition will lead to excess nutrition, causing obesity, and a major cause of precocious puberty is obesity, because the fat accumulated in the human body will promote estrogen formation. Therefore, parents must not overdosulate nutrition, pay attention to let children eat less junk food, and pay more attention to the weight changes of children [3].
Other: Intrauterine growth retardation, psychological factors, endocrine abnormalities, etc. can also affect the child's height to varying degrees [2].
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According to the above, we can find that the height of the child is affected by many aspects, and nutrition is only part of it. For this part of the child whose height is affected by calcium deficiency, drinking milk calcium supplementation is indeed beneficial to the height of the child, but the milk itself does not directly promote growth.
Of course, milk is indeed a good source of calcium substances, and there are many benefits for children to drink in moderation every day.
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Many parents may ask, is there any way to make a child "a little longer"? We recommend that parents pay attention to these aspects:
Focus on height and weight: record weight monthly, measure height once a month or 3 months, and intervene in a timely manner.
Diet: Ensure a diversified diet, not picky eaters, eat more fruits and vegetables. Avoid blindly eating various supplements, which may cause precocious puberty to be counterproductive.
Sleep: Growth hormone secretion peaks after 10 o'clock, so it is recommended to ensure that your child falls asleep before 10 o'clock and sleeps at least 8 hours a day [3].
Exercise: Moderate exercise, bounce, stretching, and aerobic exercise are all good for children to grow taller. It is not recommended to do moves and barbell-type power sports.
Medicine: Seek professional doctors for scientific interventions, such as bone age measurement, growth hormone supplementation, and so on.
Finally, here, I would also like to tell parents that they should pay attention to the height of their children in time, seek medical treatment as soon as possible to clarify the cause, and treat it in time so as not to miss the best time to delay their lives. In the matter of growing tall, we should believe in science, avoid misunderstandings, and increase the health of science.
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Hu Yamei, Jiang Zaifang, Shen Kunling, et al. Zhu Futang Practical Pediatrics Eighth Edition[M].People's Medical Publishing House, 2015
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