What should I do if my child doesn't grow taller?

As soon as a baby comes out of his mother's belly, he will be taken to be weighed and measured. The increase in height and weight will continue as the child grows. Some parents may be accustomed to measuring the height of their children at different stages of growth, but there are also some children whose height grows slowly. However, many anxious parents are always worried about what to do if their children don’t grow taller. Let’s learn about it together.

Current scientific research believes that genetic factors account for about 70% of height. During the growth and development of children, there are two peak growth periods, one is infancy and the other is puberty. Scientific research has found that the correlation between a child’s height at the age of 2 and his or her adult height is 80%.

1. Be sure to pay attention to nutrition and not be picky about food: While ensuring adequate food intake, you should also pay attention to the reasonable combination and diversity of diet, that is, a combination of coarse and fine foods, meat and vegetables, and not be picky or biased in your diet. Don't eat too many snacks and affect the intake of important nutrients.

2. Do outdoor exercise for 1 hour every day: Exercise can stimulate the secretion of growth hormone, promote metabolism, and increase appetite. Exercise can also consume excess fat and prevent obesity during periods of rapid growth. Today's children generally do not get enough outdoor activities, do not fully enjoy the sunshine and fresh air, and do not get enough exercise, which is not conducive to their height growth.

3. Ensure adequate sleep: The secretion amount of growth hormone in the sleeping state is about three times that in the awake state, so ensuring adequate sleep is beneficial to height growth.

In addition, eat more fish, meat, eggs, milk, beans, and vegetables, and less hamburgers, drinks, pickled foods, and snacks.

One of the most difficult problems that parents think of is what to do if their children do not grow taller. We have also answered the question about children's height for parents in the above article. Parents can start with the nutrition their children take in from their diet. The nutritional combination should be balanced. They should require their children to go to bed early and get up early, and form good living habits so that they can grow taller better.