Short stature丨Pediatric guide
Crooked teeth can be treated with the help of orthodontics, and the lack of appearance can be compensated by makeup. But height is more like a "hammer deal", once it is not well developed, it is a lifelong thing, so the baby's height will always be paid special attention.
One. A critical period for a child's growth
Parents first need to make it clear that their children's height does not grow at a uniform rate, and as their children grow older, their children's height growth will also change at different growth rates.
Researchers divide a child's height development into three stages and refer to these three stages as the ** stage of a child's height development. If parents can grasp these critical periods, it will have a multiplier effect on their children's height development.
Critical period 1
Stage of 0 2 years old:The baby's body is ready for development from birth, and with the acceleration of metabolism in the body, the cells of the baby's body organs will continue to proliferate and develop, and the height will change significantly. It grows 25 cm tall in the first year of life and 10 cm tall in the second year. This growth is second to none even when you look at the entire stage of your baby's development.
Critical period 2
3 years old Pubertal stage:From the age of 3, the baby will enter the next stage of height development. In addition to the "task of growing taller", the body also needs to focus on the development of the child's body organs, and the magnitude of height change will be greatly reduced, generally at a rate of 5 7 cm per year.
Critical period 3
Adolescent stage:For both boys and girls, puberty is an "accelerator" for their height development. In general, at this stage boys will grow 25 28 cm taller, while girls will grow 23 25 cm taller.
Two. Judge the watershed in your child's growth
Wu Cuifan, director of the growth and development department of Guangzhou Angel Children's Hospital, said that 4 years old is a watershed to judge whether a child can grow taller, regardless of boys or girls, the growth hormone and thyroxine in the body at the age of 4 have been basically formed and have a regularity, which can be inferred from the child's height growth.
What parents need to do is to seize the critical time of 4 years old, and when the child's height has just shown a tendency to be short, they will intervene with the help of scientific medical means, so as to help the child's height development.
In addition, Director Wu Cuifan also summarized three ways for parents to intervene in children's height in daily life, which can play a positive role in children's height development.
Method 1
Diet: Be aware that eating more is not the same as supplementing nutrients. Excessive food ingestion into the body will not only not have a positive effect on height development, but will cause the child's weight to gain and affect the secretion of growth hormone due to overnutrition. Parents should learn to arrange their children's diet scientifically and reasonably, skillfully handle the nutritional combination between foods, and help the baby's height development.
Method two
Children need growth hormone, we must first know one thing: growth hormone secretion during the day is minimal, about 80% of growth hormone in the first half of the night sleep period, when the child enters a deep sleep state will appear a peak of secretion.
There are two peak periods of growth hormone secretion: one is from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., and the other is from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., these two stages have to keep the child in a deep sleep.
If the child cannot ensure sufficient sleep time, and even has the Xi of staying up late, it is difficult for the child to get enough growth hormone from deep sleep, and it is naturally not so easy to grow tall at this time.
So how much sleep should children be guaranteed for?The National Sleep Association** recommends that babies aged 3 to 5 get at least 13 to 15 hours of sleep a day.
Method three
In addition to sleep, exercise is also a good form of promoting growth hormone secretion. The most important thing is that exercise can have a certain stretching effect on the baby's hands and feet, help height development, and improve the flexibility of the child's body. Sports like high jump, skipping rope, basketball, volleyball, running, swimming, etc., are all suitable sports for children.
If a child's height development is compared to a growing tree, then diet is equivalent to the soil in which the tree takes root. The key to how tall a child can grow in the future is whether the nutrients in this soil are enough. When parents provide adequate nutrition, exercise and sleep will be more effective.
On the other hand, if the soil is poor and there is no water, the tree will not grow well.
Baby development is no trivial matter, only by grasping every link of the baby's development, can the mother help the "birth" of tall babies.
Warm tips from Guangzhou Angel Children's Hospital
Children's short stature is only a symptom, and it may be caused by deeper and more complex reasons, and if you don't intervene in time, it will not only lead to your child's short stature, but also may affect your child's healthy growth. If it is found that the child is "growing slowly and not growing for a long time", parents should bring the child to the children's specialized hospital for examination and intervention in time, and the earlier the intervention, the better the effect.