Recently, a 12-year-old girl, height 155 cm, after testing, the results surprised parents and experts, the age of 12 is 16 years old bone age, growth plate has tended to close (4 years earlier than the normal bone age), at most 2-3 cm, but according to parental genetic child height should be in 168 cm, less than 10 cm, experts said premature bone age caused by large, so that the growth plate closed early, is This unexpected result made the mother regret it.
It turns out that the child developed when he was 9 years old, and his height was always higher than other children, and his parents were very tall, so they didn’t care at all.
Children have been using the same cosmetics as their mothers since they were 6 years old! Unbeknownst to us, the estrogen within these cosmetics can cause premature maturity in children, leading to increased bone age and early closure of the growth plates.
In addition to precocious paralysis parents neglect of their children’s height, growth retardation is also an important factor of neglect.
Experts remind that growth retardation is mainly manifested in small bone age, annual rise of 6 cm or less, poor physical fitness, the main reason (except pathological) is poor spleen and stomach absorption, poor nutrition, low sleep quality, unreasonable exercise and the environment and other combined factors lead to growth plate in a semi-dormant state, the bone bud cell proliferation rate is slow, much lower than normal children, resulting in skeletal growth retardation.
Such children’s body tissues and organ development failed to reach the healthy level of their peers, and most of the physical examination without disease, parents are easy to neglect, they need to identify the causes by professional testing, as long as the causes of growth retardation are solved in time, most of them can achieve catch-up growth to restore their normal height level. Blind waiting not only can not solve this growth obstacle, but also delay the best time for children to grow!
Intervention for height before the age of 12 is the key!
Children grow taller in three main stages.
The first stage, 0-7 years old, this stage of the child’s height increase on the ultimate height of the impact of 50%. The expert group in 2005 through the study of nine cities in China data show that the natural growth of the adult ultimate height determinants depend on the growth before the age of seven.
If by age seven the child’s height is below the standard for the same age without timely intervention and left to grow naturally, the height in adulthood will also be lower than that of the same age, i.e.: height at age seven is an important marker of the level of early childhood height care.
In the second stage, from 7-12 years old, the height increase has an impact on the final height of 30%.
The third stage, by the age of 12-18 years decreases to 20%. At puberty, the influence of sex hormones on height is obvious, because the process of height stopping during puberty is the process of growth hormone and sex hormone increasing and decreasing. Therefore, usually by the age of 12, the child has completed most of the height growth.
Therefore, 3-12 years old is the best time for children to grow.
Once the growth plate of a child is closed, it means the end of growth (most girls are 14 years old and boys are 16 years old), and the best time for children to grow taller is only a few years. Parents should not “wait”.
In the critical period of growth (3-12 years old) to receive the correct guidance on growth, to develop the correct diet, exercise, sleep habits, their height will be an average of 15-20 cm higher than the natural growth, but, after the girl’s menarche, after the boy’s voice, height growth that enters the final sprint stage, but also marks the imminent termination of human body growth.
Six groups of people (3-18 years old) who need intervention and growth aid.
1, due to genetics or disease, height growth is delayed (the average annual increase of less than 6 cm);
2, precocious, female 11, male 13 years old before the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics, resulting in bone age, shortening the growth period, the growth plate closed in advance to stop growing, the final height but short of a cut;
3, 8-14 years old to grow taller “surge period” did not significantly jump;
4, malnutrition, anorexia, anorexia, poor physical fitness short;
5, puberty slow growth, stop growing, growth suspended children;
6, obesity affects the growth of children whose weight exceeds 20% of the normal standard.