Does your child have growing pains and need calcium supplements?

Children with growing pains are not caused by calcium deficiency and do not need to take calcium supplements for treatment. Growing pains are a normal physiological phenomenon, mostly occurring in children aged 3 to 12 years old, mainly due to muscle pulling pain caused by the incoordination between bone growth and muscle growth and development speed, not due to calcium deficiency. Parents can use hot towels for local hot massage, at the same time need to reduce the child’s strenuous exercise, reasonable dietary structure to help relieve, without additional supplemental calcium treatment. However, if the child is accompanied by joint swelling, elevated skin around the joints, venous dilatation, generalized fever and other symptoms, we need to be vigilant about arthritis, synovitis, or even osteosarcoma and other diseases, and we need to consult the doctor for a definitive diagnosis in time and timely treatment, so as not to miss the therapeutic time. Therefore, if the child excludes the cause of the disease, considered as growing pains, mainly with hot compresses, massage to help relieve the symptoms, do not need additional calcium supplementation, with age can gradually improve.