Diet: Many parents of dwarf children often think that their children are short because they usually eat too little or are too picky about their food, but in fact, nowadays, children who are short because of insufficient nutrition hardly exist anymore. Instead, over-nutrition is common, and over-nutrition is one of the main reasons why the incidence of precocious puberty is increasing year by year. Children who are short in stature need less than other children because of their slow growth, and most of them do not eat much. From time to time, we also find that children who are originally short grow significantly more food if they show pubertal development, for this reason.
In both short and precocious children, it is better to have a balanced diet, i.e. a reasonable mix of meat and vegetarian dishes, and a balanced intake of coarse and fine grains. Overall, it is better to have a relatively wide range of recipes. Some parents restrict their children’s diet too much after they find out their children have precocious puberty is also not good. As a growing child, basic nutrients should be guaranteed. It is recommended to drink 1-2 sachets of milk and 1 egg per day (regardless of the cooking method, whether alone or by adding to a dish or soup, as long as it is cooked), while other meat dishes need to be appropriately limited. Although milk and eggs are not guaranteed to be safe, too much restriction is certainly not beneficial.
For some of the fatter children, it would be better to eat some fruit or have some soup or something before eating and slow down the pace of eating. Although it is not a very reasonable way to eat. Because, our feeling of stomach fullness and hunger is not felt by the empty or full stomach, but by the high or low blood sugar. When the blood sugar is low, the stomach feels empty. If you eat too fast, although you have reached the normal serving size, but because blood sugar has not yet come to rise sharply to the normal level, you will also feel that you have not eaten enough, you will eat more.
Due to various advertising campaigns and other reasons, there are also often parents who believe that their children will be deficient in zinc, calcium and so on. In fact, except for the need for proper vitamin D supplementation during infancy to prevent calcium deficiency, a normal diet will not cause micronutrient deficiency. Moreover, since it is a micronutrient, more is not better! Too much can cause other harmful effects. I often give parents the analogy: “An egg, without any external factors, can hatch chicks, but if the nutrients needed for life are missing, the chicks will not hatch”. Other foods are also made of cells and have various nutrients, but the content and ratio of various nutrients vary from food to food. Please remember: medicine is better than food! Humans cannot synthesize their own proteins, and no health food can be comparable to natural food!
To prevent precocious puberty, there are some foods that you should try to eat less of, such as too much animal food, fresh vegetables and fruits.
Of course, some parents are sloppy and have not kept the birth control pills properly and let their children eat them to cause precocious puberty. Excessive application of cosmetics is also bad, and it is not good for the mother to kiss her child with too much cosmetics.
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 a more adequate sleep. School-age children generally need 8 to 9 hours of sleep a day. It is better to go to sleep earlier, but it is not necessary to emphasize the early or late sleep, as some people understand that growth hormone is only secreted at what time of the day, but only in relation to the depth and total time of sleep. Modern people go to sleep later than in the past, but not shorter, but because of improved nutrition, timely and effective control of diseases, and so on.
Exercise: Since exercise is also a way to promote the secretion of growth hormone, proper exercise is good for growth, regardless of treatment. The exercise that is good for growth is aerobic exercise.
The definition of aerobic exercise is: ① moderate intensity (exercise intensity is too large, too small is not good, just stop when the heartbeat is about 120 beats per minute is more appropriate).
② regular, continuous exercise.
③At least 20 minutes each time (for those who need to lose weight, it is better to reach half an hour each time).
④ try to be outdoors (everything grows by the sun, so does human growth. The reason why people are taller in the north than in the south, there are climatic factors, but also the sunshine time factor. (The more northern, the less rain in the long year, the longer the total time of sunshine).
The way of exercise to jogging, slow jump rope, etc. is good. Ball sports can also be, but need to pay attention to maintain the continuity of the movement, the ball is not in the hand also need to pay attention to run. Too strenuous exercise will cause hypoxia, is anaerobic exercise, but not conducive to growth. There is also a disadvantage to exercising for too long a continuous period of time.
Other aspects: Children aged 2 to 14 years generally need to be dewormed twice a year for intestinal parasites, it is not necessary to find out that there are eggs before deworming is needed, as long as it is done when they are not sick. Usually, if you are sick, try to go to a regular hospital in time. Some drugs such as adrenocorticosteroids and quinolone antibacterial drugs have a height-suppressing effect.
Conclusion: Although proper diet, sleep and exercise are good for growth, do not be too superstitious about these aspects without treating related diseases. If you are found to have a disease related to short stature or precocious growth, treatment is a must. Our adult height prediction includes factors such as normal diet, sleep, exercise, and timely treatment of various diseases.