What are the factors that affect children's height?

What are the factors that affect children's height? As babies grow up day by day, some children are much shorter than other children of the same age. Parents are anxious to give their children supplements, but we must remember not to "try all kinds of medicine". So the first and most important thing is that we must figure out what factors affect children's height. Only by finding the cause can we better help the baby grow taller, and it will be effective. Let's learn together and enrich our own knowledge.

1. Fertility affects children's height

Babies born with intrauterine growth retardation or premature are smaller than normal newborns, and 10% to 15% of them cannot catch up to the normal height curve after two years old; those with a history of breech presentation, dystocia, birth asphyxia, brain trauma, etc. are also accompanied by slow growth;

2. Obesity affects children's height

3. Drugs affect children's height

Children who have taken or have taken for a long time some Chinese medicines for increasing height, enhancing immunity, glucocorticoids, or nourishing the kidney and qi may have complications such as rapid sexual development and premature growth spurt. Children with hypothyroidism, some children with congenital hypothyroidism develop the disease before the age of 2 years. If not treated, it will cause mental retardation. However, children who develop the disease after the age of 2 years usually show symptoms such as growth disorders, constipation, anemia, lack of activity, and loss of appetite. In addition, we must also be aware that the side effects of certain drugs in the treatment of diseases can also hinder development. For example, Ritalin and other stimulant drugs have been found to affect development in the treatment of ADHD. Therefore, if you need to take a special medication, you must choose the prescription and dosage carefully.

4. Parents’ childbearing age affects their children’s height

Research shows that a person's height is determined by many factors. For example, the number of children in a family and the order in which the children are born will affect their height.

Parents' education level and work also affect their children's height. For example, children born to parents who engage in heavy mental work have a higher average height than those born to parents who engage in manual labor. The urbanization process also indirectly affects children's height. For example, children in cities mature earlier and are physically better than children in rural areas. Improved nutritional environment is one of the important factors. In addition, the age of parents when they have a child will also affect the child's height.

5. Staying up late will affect your child’s height

In recent years, a large number of investigations and studies have confirmed that the amount of growth hormone secreted by short children is far less than that of normal children, and a considerable number of children do not get enough sleep at night. Since children secrete abundant growth hormone during sleep from childhood to pre-adolescence, the amount of growth hormone secreted from 9 pm to 9 am the next day is three times that of the 12 hours during the day. In particular, there is a secretion peak 70 minutes after falling asleep at 9 pm. In view of this, children should not stay up late.

6. Lack of maternal love affects children's height

Some experts have found that emotional disorders can also affect height.

If a child grows up in an environment lacking family warmth and does not receive sufficient maternal love, then his height will often be shorter than children of the same age. Foreign countries call this type of dwarfism emotionally blocked dwarfism, and some information calls it "love blocked syndrome."

7. Precocious or delayed development of children affects their height

If a child has precocious puberty, parents should detect it early and take the child to a regular hospital for specialist treatment as soon as possible. It was summer vacation, and the number of outpatients at the Adolescent Growth and Development Center of Ruijin Hospital was more than three times the usual number. Professor Wang Defen, director of the center, said that with the increasing living standards, the developmental age of urban children is getting earlier and earlier. If the bone age is too advanced, it will affect the child's final height, and parents are reminded to pay attention.

The above content is an introduction to the knowledge of "What are the factors that affect children's height?" Through these introductions, we as parents will know more clearly where to start. Only by mastering this knowledge will we have a way to solve the problem of baby's height. Doing so is also very beneficial to the baby's growth. Let us all have a healthy baby.