Every parent wants their child to grow taller, but if they can’t even grasp the minimum growth pattern, they may really delay their child.
A hospital in Beijing surveyed 670 parents of short children over a six-year period and found that 97% of them did not know the growth pattern of their children, and more than 80% of them could not provide their children’s height before one year. In fact, it is important to grasp the three most critical growth periods, remembering the numbers “7, 4, 5”, and measure your child’s height once every three months.
The first stage of child growth is from birth to 3 years old, during this period children will grow very fast. Generally speaking, the child will grow more than 7 cm per year. If the growth rate is lower than this, you should take the child to the endocrinology department of the hospital for consultation. Babies grow fastest in the first year after birth, and some children can even grow 25 cm.
The second stage is from 3 years old to the beginning of puberty (about 10 years old for girls and 12 years old for boys). 4 years old or so, growth hormone and thyroxine have basically formed in the human body, and the growth of height at this time is mainly regulated by growth hormone, increasing by 4~7 cm per year. If it is lower than 4 cm, it is diagnosed by doctors as dwarfism caused by growth hormone deficiency, and 4~6 years old is the most ideal age for treatment.
The third key growth period is puberty, generally from 9 or 10 years old to 15 years old for girls, and related links for boys: from 11 or 12 years old to 16 years old. In this golden five or six years, at least 5 to 6.5 cm per year. At this time, let children go outdoors more in the sun, do more jump rope, volleyball, basketball, long jump and other vertical sports, and sleep enough 8 to 10 hours a day, especially helpful for height growth.
Parents should avoid 3 misconceptions Misconception 1: Blindly listening to advertised height increase products Never consider the treatment mechanism and how costly it is to try it out. In fact, most of the advertised products have the undesirable effect of causing premature epiphyseal closure. As a result, the best time for treatment may have been lost when poor results are found only when a specialist is consulted.
Myth 2: Superstition in some height increase clinics Some parents listen to the propaganda of height increase clinics in informal hospitals, which results in misdiagnosis or wrong medication, delaying the growth of the child, and even adverse consequences, which is a waste of time and a lot of money, which they regret too late.
Misconception three: wait Some parents believe that children have early growth and late growth, 23 years old to scamper a scamper, children are not anxious about a short. However, when it is found that the child really does not grow, wait until the end of the college entrance examination, and then go to the hospital is too late, the child may have closed epiphysis, and then the competent doctor can not help.