As the saying goes, “A dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and a mouse is born to make a hole”, referring to the power of genetics, and the same is true in terms of height. Those parents whose height itself is not too ideal, they will be particularly concerned about the height of their children. And children born to tall parents often don’t pay attention to their children’s growth curve, grow up but not tall enough to detect the problem in time, which may affect the child for life!
However, genetics does not determine everything about a child, at least in terms of height, genetic influence only accounts for 70%, and 30% depends on the nurturing of later in life. This means that if the parenting is right, short parents can also raise tall children, on the contrary, if the parenting is not right, tall parents have children, the height is not necessarily high.
Not long ago, the doctor met a pair of confused parents: the mother is 160 cm tall, the father is 175 cm tall, they gave birth to a son, now 16 years old, 180 cm tall, so in their consciousness, two years younger than the son’s daughter will not be short to where. But the truth is that her daughter is now only 153 cm tall, having grown only 1 cm in the past six months, and she had her first menstrual period a year and a half ago.
The mother asked Dr. Hu for advice on how to grow her daughter, but the answer she got was “I can’t help” because after the examination, the girl’s epiphysis had closed and she would basically never grow taller.
When parents are concerned about their children’s height, they can first observe the height gap with children of the same area and age through the naked eye. If your child is 4-5 cm shorter than most of his or her classmates in the classroom, you should be aware that the child is already included in the category of relative dwarfism, and if you don’t intervene in time, you may delay the child’s life.
In reality, there are always parents who think that their children are temporarily not tall because they are “late growing” and will be taller when they are in middle school or high school. “Please stop deceiving yourself and others, because the main reason for your previous ‘late growth’ is that you can’t keep up with nutrition, but nowadays children are generally over-nourished, generally girls will have their first menstruation at the age of 12 years and 4 months, and boys will develop at the age of 15 years, and when the epiphysis is closed, you still How do you expect them to ‘grow up late’ in middle school?”
It is for this reason that children are developing earlier nowadays, and doctors also remind parents to pay attention to their children’s bone age. For example, a 12-year-old boy is 153 cm tall, which looks good from the outside, but if the bone age is already 13 or 14 years old, it means that the child’s future growth potential is already much smaller than that of his peers. That’s why bone age is strictly measured during the selection of athletes.
How to help children grow taller, pay attention to several aspects: 1, diet coarse and fine, meat and vegetables, to maintain a balanced nutrition is the general guiding principle. One egg, 200 ml of milk or yogurt per day is a must. Eat shellfish once or twice a week for zinc to ensure your child has a good appetite. Limit your child’s diet high in sugar, fat and salt to avoid precocious puberty. Another crucial point is not to let your child eat too much, because eating too much will affect the secretion of growth hormone.
2, exercise More than 3 times a week, each time the time to last more than 40 minutes, for example, running, jumping rope and other bouncing sports, swimming, etc., are very good aerobic exercise.
3, sleep Now there are actually many children sleep late due to the pressure of schoolwork, which is very detrimental to the growth of children. Because growth hormone is secreted at night, 10:30 pm, 12:00 pm, 2:00 am and 4:00 am the next day are the four highest secretion points, if some children sleep late for a long time, they will miss the first pulse, and their size will be affected. In general, it takes 40-50 minutes for the pulse to appear after the child falls asleep, so it is recommended that children must fall asleep before 9:30.
4. Psychological aspects There is a special category of clinical psychological factors caused by short, such as parental disharmony, frequent scolding, etc. In this family atmosphere, the child is very depressed for a long time, the size will not grow taller, so if parents want their children to grow taller, they must let them keep a happy mood.