Top 3 tips from pediatric endocrinologists!

In recent years, with economic development and social progress, the spectrum of pediatric diseases has changed. Infectious, infectious and nutritional diseases have been gradually controlled, and the composition ratio of non-infectious diseases has been increasing year by year, especially the pediatric endocrine system diseases are getting more and more attention from the society, parents, children and pediatricians. Childhood obesity, childhood precocious puberty, childhood diabetes mellitus, dwarfism, congenital hypothyroidism, etc. are the most common pediatric endocrine diseases in clinical practice. Diet Whether it is dwarfism or precocious puberty children, in terms of diet, it is good to have a balanced diet, i.e., a reasonable combination of meat and vegetarian dishes, and a balanced intake of coarse and fine grains. Some parents, after discovering their children’s precocious puberty, it is not good to restrict their children’s diet excessively. As it is a growing child, basic nutrients should still be guaranteed. It is recommended that every day can insist on drinking 1 ~ 2 bags of milk, 1 egg (regardless of the cooking method, and regardless of whether it is eaten alone or through the addition of vegetables or soup, as long as cooked on the line), other meat dishes need to be appropriately limited. Although milk and eggs are not guaranteed to be safe, too much restriction is certainly not favorable. For some fatter children, it is better to have some fruit or soup before eating and to slow down the pace of eating (although this is not a very sensible way of eating). In terms of preventing precocious puberty, some foods should be eaten as little as possible, such as too much animal food, fresh squash, out-of-season fruits, beverages, fast food, etc. Soybean products, because they contain a certain amount of soy isoflavones, are not encouraged to eat more. Especially cola class try not to drink (cola class contains high phosphorus, not conducive to calcium absorption), resolutely eliminate health products! Including do not use more colostrum, etc. Sleep As growth hormone is the most important hormone for human growth, the secretion of growth hormone is mainly secreted during deep sleep. Therefore, it is also important to ensure more adequate sleep. School-age children generally need 8 to 9 hours of sleep a day. Of course it is better to go to bed earlier, but the early or late sleep does not need to be emphasized, not some people understand that growth hormone is only secreted at what time, but only related to the depth and total time of sleep. Modern people are going to bed later than in the past, but they are not shorter because of this, but because of better nutrition, timely and effective control of diseases, and so on. Exercise Exercise is also a way to promote growth hormone secretion. Regardless of treatment or not, proper exercise is beneficial to grow taller. Exercise that is good for height growth is aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise is defined as: 1, moderate intensity (exercise intensity is too big, too small is not good, just stopped when the heartbeat at 120 ~ 150 times / min is more appropriate); 2, regular, continuous exercise; 3, each time not less than 20 minutes (for those who need to reduce weight, it is best to reach half an hour each time); 4, as far as possible in the outdoors (everything grows by the sun, the growth of human beings is also the same. The reason why the height of people in the northern region is higher than in the south, there are climatic factors, but also sunshine time factors. The more the north, the less the long years of rain, the longer the total time of sunshine). Exercise in the form of jogging, slow jumping rope, etc. is good. Ball games, swimming, etc. are also fine, except that care needs to be taken to maintain continuity of exercise. Other aspects Children aged 2 to 14 years old generally need to be dewormed once or twice a year because of the lack of attention to personal hygiene, such as hand hygiene. When you are usually sick, try to go to a regular hospital in time. Some drugs such as adrenocorticotropic hormones (e.g. hydrocortisone, dexamethasone, etc.) and quinolone antibacterial drugs (e.g. norfloxacin, ofloxacin, etc.) have the effect of inhibiting height, so use them as little as possible or do not use them. Summarize Although proper diet, sleep and exercise are conducive to growing taller, don’t be too superstitious about these aspects without treating the related diseases. If you are found to have dwarfism or precocious puberty, controlling diet and strengthening exercise are no substitute for treatment.