Children with precocious puberty can’t grow taller There are many causes of children’s short stature, and now the clearer factors include genetic factors, growth hormone deficiency, intrauterine growth retardation, chronic malnutrition, precocious puberty, etc., among which the proportion of precocious puberty factors in outpatient clinics is increasing. According to the current developmental standards, girls should start to develop from the age of 8 and boys from the age of 9. But outpatients, a girl at the age of 6 years old that breast development, 9 years old when the height of 1.3 meters, while the bone age has reached 14 years old, there are 5-year-old girls to menstruation, 11-year-old boys mature development …… city children precocious maturity has been a common phenomenon, resulting in early body shape worrying, so that parents are at a loss. Nowadays, parents invest in their children’s height regardless of the cost, and there are many height-enhancing drugs on the market, but they are actually health products, the main ingredients are just some calcium, iron, zinc and amino acids, which is a good thing; there are some height-enhancing products that even contain ingredients that are detrimental to the growth of children, such as hormones. Take these products may see the child’s height grow a little faster in the short term, but it accelerates the closure of the child’s epiphysis, but let the child’s height set early, resulting in short stature, so parents should not arbitrarily listen to advertising propaganda. The calcium supplement has nothing to do with height growth. We all know that calcium is an important component of bones, so many parents think that more calcium will promote children’s growth, and some “height increasing drugs” are mainly composed of calcium. In fact, calcium supplementation and height increase are two different things. In order for children to grow taller, simply taking calcium tablets is generally not very useful, the usual sense of calcium supplementation, is to timely replenish the body’s loss of calcium to maintain bone density, calcium as a component of the bones, can not affect the speed of growth and development, but also can not affect the length and growth of bones, and calcium intake too much, but easy to cause constipation and other adverse phenomena, affecting the growth of height. However, some children with nutritional deficiencies due to over-eating may consider appropriate calcium supplementation and a comprehensive treatment program. Zinc supplementation alone will not help to increase height. Zinc deficiency can reduce the secretion of growth hormone, which can cause growth to lag. However, even though parents focus on zinc supplementation for their children, it still has little effect on height, why? On the one hand, children with normal diet are not zinc deficient; on the other hand, some children are zinc deficient, but it is not the only cause of their short stature. Parents should clearly understand that zinc does not directly promote growth, and that zinc toxicity can occur if children are given too much of it.