How to judge that children are "late" or short?

Seeing that the height of other children is more than half higher than that of their children, many parents are inevitably confused: Is the child "late" or short? And listen to Su Haohao, chief physician of the Chief Endocrinology and Metro Faculty of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Guangdong Province.

remind:

Do not use "short" as "late long"

Su Haihao introduced that short small refers to the two standard deviations of the same gender, the same age, and the same race children, or lower than the third hundred points. In simple terms, in the similar living environment, the same race and the same gender The child of the same age is randomly selected and arranged according to the height. The shortest three are short. Due to diseases, drugs often need to intervene in drugs.

"Late long" usually refers to "delayed developmental development of the constitution". It is different from "short". Although such children's height is short, most of them are about 300 points, but this short is mostly physiological. To temporarily, the adolescent growth peaks of these children appeared later than their peers. In the end, these children "accumulated" to normal height through longer growth.

Most of the "late" children have the following characteristics: First, they can find family history, that is, the child's father or mother also has the history of "late long". But his height is not short. Second, bone age, that is, the cookedness of the age of all ages. It is a good indicator for assessing the development of the organism. Under normal circumstances, the difference between the age and actual age of bone age should be within ± 1 years old. "Children who are long", their bone age is usually not more than 2 years old, while "short" children are more than 2 years old and the actual age.

Among the factors that affect height, the genetic factors account for about 70%, which determines the approximate "track" of growth and development. Generally speaking, parents are relatively tall, and their children will have a higher chance. In addition, 30%are affected by environmental factors. Environmental factors include the condition of the fetus during pregnancy, as well as factors such as nutrition, exercise, sleep, and disease. The day after tomorrow can affect and change the factors. If these factors have problems, it is also possible to make children unable to reach the ideal height. "Su Haohao said that many factors can affect children's height, so parents must work hard to protect their children's growth.

Strip:

Want to grow better, do these points well

1. Reasonable nutrition, balanced diet

Nutrition is a critical factor for children's growth. Protein is the basis of life. Each organs include skeletal cells, muscles, and internal organs. Calcium is the main component of bones. ; All kinds of vitamins are also important to promote growth and development, and it is conducive to improving children's immunity. But not just pick these foods to eat. The various nutrients are inseparable. Insufficient intake of certain nutrients in the body may lead to restrictions on the absorption of other nutrients. It will affect the absorption of calcium.

In contrast, excess nutrients may also affect the absorption of other nutrients. If too much calcium food intake, it may also cause iron absorption disorders. Therefore, parents can spend a little bit of time and cleverly match various nutrients in three meals a day to ensure a balanced diet to ensure sufficient and reasonable nutrition. Of course, blind supplements are also not desirable. Blindly supplementing nutrition to children and wanting children to "grow". It is also easy to cut the child's growth potential due to obesity and puberty caused by excess nutrition, which eventually affects the child's adult height. In addition, you should pay attention to minimizing the intake of various carbonated beverages, candy and sugar -containing beverages.

2. Appropriate aerobic exercise and outdoor activities

Exercise can better promote the secretion of growth hormones. Rope skipping, high, badminton, basketball, swimming is more suitable and helpful for children to grow taller. It is recommended that children best perform aerobic exercise per week, and arrange 3 to 4 times a week, which lasts at no less than 30 minutes.

3. Successful sleep

Good sleep is important for children's growth and development. Promoting height of growth hormones in the state of sleep is higher than awake. The peak period of the secretion is from 10 pm to 2 am the next day. Being asleep before 10 pm, if you can, it is best to fall asleep before 9 o'clock. It should be noted that try not to play mobile phones, play games before bedtime, so as not to affect sleep because of stimulation and excitement. Try to avoid overeating before going to bed, avoid criticizing children before going to bed, and do not develop the habit of driving on a small night lamp while sleeping.

4. Regularly monitor the child's height development situation

To judge the child's height development, parents cannot stare at the height value of a certain point. Parents should also pay attention to the dynamic changes of their children's height when they are concerned about the child's height and the same gender children of the same age. Measted a child with a height and accumulated for 1 to 2 years. You can see the instant height situation and the trend of height growth.

Generally speaking, children over the age of 2 should have a height of 5 cm to 7 cm each year. If it is lower than this time, then parents should be vigilant and take their children to children's endocrinology department in the hospital in time.By the period of rapid growth in adolescence, the rapid growth period of the average girl's adolescence is about 10-12 years old, and the boy will be 1 to 2 years later. During this period, children can grow 8 cm to 12 cm a year. If the child starts to appear too early, this ""High", if the short child in the original class, at the age of eight or nine years old, the height suddenly soared to a higher level in the class, then it is necessary to increase their vigilance and timely consultation to rule out the problems of early development and fast development.(Source: Guangzhou Daily reporter Wang Jing correspondent Lin Huifang)

【Edit: Jinxin】

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