Some mothers give birth to “pocket” babies whose length and weight are not up to standard due to premature birth or very premature birth; some children grow up with anorexia, recurrent respiratory infections and other diseases that slow down or even stop normal growth and development …… Children encounter such problems. The parents are inevitably worried about these problems.
These “congenital deficiencies” of the child can actually be later, “medical in the recovery phase after overcoming the child’s developmental impediments to accelerate the growth of the child will appear, called ‘catch-up growth’. ” But if you miss it, it will be difficult to “go hand in hand” with your peers. In addition to infancy and adolescence, high levels of “catch-up growth” are likely to be achieved in girls before their menstruation and in boys before their voices change.
Parents should not be overly alarmed about premature babies and babies who do not meet the length and weight standards. After these obstacles are effectively treated and the negative factors are overcome, the child will resume growth at a very fast rate. “This accelerated growth during the recovery phase is called ‘catch-up growth’. However, parents should not take this lightly, as ‘catch-up growth’ cannot occur if they miss the best time to treat their child.”
“‘Catch-up growth’ is characterized by a longer rate and duration of growth than normal children, with more significant improvements in development.” For example, the annual growth rate of normal children is 5 to 7 cm, children with growth disorders often grow only 3 to 4 cm or even less per year, but after giving the correct intervention and treatment affected children can grow at a rate of 8 to 10 cm or more per year, and many children will even catch up with their growth at a rate of 1 cm per month.
When he was half a year old, his parents noticed that he could not eat and cried little; when he was more than a year old, he could not walk and was significantly shorter than children of the same age. At that time, the parents did not take Ally to a specialist, but took him to a small school in the county. It was only then that Ally’s family brought him to a pediatric growth and development specialist. After taking blood tests, it was found that Li’s short stature was caused by hypothyroidism (commonly known as “low thyroid”). The doctor prescribed the right medicine and now, at the age of 10, Ah Li is as tall as his peers.
“Some children are already shorter than normal children at the age of one, and at the age of seven to eight, their growth rate is less than half that of normal children, and their bone age is small. After half a month of treatment with thyroxine tablets, there is rapid catch-up growth. After six months the growth rate can reach 2 to 4 times the average speed of children of the same age, and can grow 12 to 15 cm a year.” Because of the catch-up growth, these children can eventually approach their normal level of height despite the delayed age of onset of sudden height gain.
In addition, “there are many children with chronic childhood malnutrition resulting in growth retardation, parents have been unconcerned, only after entering puberty parents began to be anxious. Although the children are given fish, meat, eggs and supplements every day constantly, malnutrition corrected, but at this time the bone age is already on the older side, epiphysis close to closure, and no ideal growth catch up, so often lead to short stature in adulthood.” It is important to identify the cause early and treat it symptomatically. The younger you are, the smaller the difference in height with normal children of the same age, especially before the onset of menstruation in girls and before the change of voice in boys, the greater the possibility of achieving a high level of “catch-up growth”.
At the same time, the scientific arrangement of meals, four meals a day: breakfast milk, noodles, eggs; Chinese food rice, lean meat or poultry, fish is appropriate; dinner food rice, broth, vegetables is good; around 10 p.m. can eat some noodles. You can eat in between meals” children should eat as little processed food as possible, such as snacks, snacks, etc.. These foods lack the necessary trace elements and vitamins for children’s growth, and contain coloring, flavoring, thickeners and other food additives, etc., which will not only cause loss of appetite and anemia, but also increase the burden on children’s immature liver and kidneys, leading to endocrine effects on children, or premature maturity, or obesity, affecting children’s height.”
First of all, parents should encourage children to carry out an appropriate amount of exercise conducive to height. Early childhood should enhance the balance, agility, flexibility and flexibility of regulation, such as crossing a log bridge, dance, combined with the games performed by running, jumping; juvenile period should be mainly outdoor activities, such as playing ball, running, gymnastics, sunbathing, etc.; adolescence should be mainly bouncing sports, such as jumping touch high, jump rope, pull-ups, etc.
Secondly, you should ensure that your child gets enough sleep, no less than 9 to 11 hours a day, and let your child drink a glass of milk before bedtime. Milk can provide rich calcium and vitamin D, which can “echo” with the body’s growth hormone, making its long bone development both fast and strong. In addition, she also repeatedly stressed that to measure whether a child’s growth and development is normal, one should not rely on one’s subjective desire to take drugs blindly, but should cherish the body given by nature and not fall into the confusion of “blindly increasing height”. Hospital visit. The doctor told the parents at the time that the child was still young and that it would be fine to take some calcium tablets and vitamins. When they returned, the parents not only bought calcium tablets and vitamins for Ali, but also bought a lot of supplements and oral liquid with great fanfare. However, by the age of 6, Ally was shorter than his younger siblings who were 2 to 3 years younger. During puberty, the average child can grow 20 cm between 2 and 3 years of puberty. If you seize these two periods to “catch up with growth”, it is more ideal.