Many parents desperately try to give their children enhanced nutrition in order to grow them. However, too much nutrition can cause premature sexual maturity in children, the early secretion of a large number of sex hormones, so that the child’s bone age ahead of time, epiphysis closed early, resulting in premature growth stop, and ultimately short height.
The doctor said that many supplements and oral liquids developed for children in the market are labeled as “long and strong”, but in fact a considerable part of them contain hormones. After these hormones enter the child’s body, it will make the child grow taller than children of the same age when they are five or six years old, and as a result of maturation, their bone age also soars to 8 to 10 years old.
Doctors warned that eating “growth” health products easy to accelerate the bone age of children, if the child 9 years old before the sudden acceleration of height growth or premature appearance of secondary sexual characteristics, we should be alert.
It is understood that the child’s growth potential is not based on actual age, but on skeletal age, that is, bone age. Bone age is an indicator of development, like the annual rings of a tree, which determines the final height of a child. If the age is older than the bone age, it indicates that the child is stunted; if the age is younger than the bone age, it indicates that the child is precocious, etc.
Therefore, if you want to know your child’s growth and development, you should go to a regular hospital to take a bone age film. The doctor will determine the growth potential of the child based on the epiphyseal closure shown on the bone age film.
The doctor said that parents should be careful about buying certain oral liquids for children and should help their children grow through food therapy, exercise and sleep in their lives.