What are the three symptoms of growing pains in children?

There is a type of children who have a special physique and will experience growing pains when they enter puberty. Growing pains often occur in normal children around 3-12 years old, both boys and girls may experience it. The main symptoms are intermittent pain in the lower limbs, soreness or tingling, and severe stretching pain. Parents need to pay attention to let their children exercise more and give them more nutrition at this time, because this period is the most critical time.

There are three main manifestations :

1. Mostly pain in the lower limbs and growing pains

The most common sites of occurrence are the knee, calf, front of the thigh, and occasionally in the groin area, and the pain is usually outside the joint. Typically the pain is bilateral, but unilateral pain may also occur.

2. Mostly muscle pain and growing pain

The pain is mostly muscle pain, not joint or bone pain. There will be no redness, swelling or heat in the painful area.

3. Pain often occurs at night

The biggest characteristic of growing pains is that they almost always occur at night. But don't neglect the daytime. During the day, children are more active, so even if they feel uncomfortable, they may not notice it because they are focused on other things. When the body and mind have relaxed at night and are ready to have a good rest, the "pain" symptoms will make the child feel particularly uncomfortable or even unbearable.

Causes

1. Rapid bone growth

Children's bones grow rapidly, while the nerves, tendons, and muscles around the long bones of the limbs grow relatively slowly, resulting in traction pain.

2. Metabolite accumulation

Excessive activity or excessive metabolic products from developing tissues can cause the accumulation of acidic metabolic products, leading to muscle soreness.

3. Tibial inward curvature

When learning to walk, the tibia of the lower leg is more bent, and the human body compensates by developing a certain degree of knee valgus. As their bodies grow, some young children do not receive timely correction. In order to maintain joint stability, their leg muscles are often kept tense, causing pain.

Preventive Care

Babies should consume more nutrients that can promote the growth of cartilage tissue, such as milk, bones, walnuts, and eggs, which all contain elastin and collagen. Vitamin C is beneficial to collagen synthesis, so your baby can eat more vegetables and fruits rich in VC, such as green vegetables, leeks, spinach, citrus, grapefruit, etc.

1. Calcium supplementation has nothing to do with growing pains. Children with sufficient calcium may also experience growing pains, and calcium supplementation is not very helpful in relieving growing pains.

2. Growing pains have little to do with how tall you grow. People who have not experienced growing pains can also grow very tall, but people who have experienced growing pains may not necessarily grow very tall.

3. There is no need to restrict the child's activities, but if the pain is severe, you should let him rest more, relax his muscles, and avoid strenuous activities.

4. You can use a hot towel to massage or apply hot compress to the painful area of ​​the baby, which can ease the child's tension and thus relieve the discomfort caused by the pain.