What to do if your child has growing pains

Growing pains are a common phenomenon in children. We need to take good care of children when they have growing pains. After all, children are very different from adults, and children cannot take good care of themselves. Therefore, parents must take good care of children who experience growing pains. So what should we pay attention to when experiencing growing pains? We suggest that the most important thing for children who experience growing pains is to rest.

Of course, we still have many ways to relieve the growing pains that children experience. We can divert children's attention and let them not care too much about the growing pains. We can also use hot compresses, massage and other methods.

The most important thing for treating growing pains is to rest in time. If your child has knee or calf pain after school, don't force him or her to do more exercise. Before going to bed at night, you can soak your child's feet and calves in hot water. When the pain is severe, local massage, hot compress, application of medicated oil or painkillers can be given, and vitamin C can also be taken in appropriate amounts. When children are not tired, they should be encouraged to participate in more activities and exercise their muscle strength to promote the natural correction of tibial inward curvature. Parents don't need to panic if their children experience growing pains. As children grow older, the growing pains of most patients will disappear when they approach puberty. It will not affect the normal growth and development of the children, and even if the pain recurs, it will not leave joint deformities. Growing pains are muscle pains and generally do not require special treatment. The most effective way to deal with the pain is to give the child local massage and hot compresses to help reduce the pain and give the child a sense of psychological care and security.

The specific method is as follows:

1. Divert attention

Distracting your baby's attention is an effective way to help him ignore the pain. Mom and dad can attract their baby by telling stories, playing games, playing with toys, watching cartoons, etc. Treat sick babies with more tenderness and care than usual, because encouragement and spiritual support from parents are the most important pain relief remedies for children, and sometimes even more effective than drugs.

2. Local hot compress and massage

Parents can use a hot towel to massage or apply hot compress to the baby's painful area. This can ease the child's tension and relieve the discomfort caused by the pain. When massaging, be sure to pay attention to the strength of kneading. Let your baby fall asleep with gentle caressing.

3. Reduce strenuous exercise

Growing pains are not a disease and there is no need to restrict the baby's activities. However, if the pain is severe, you should make sure your baby rests more, relaxes his muscles, and avoids strenuous activities.

4. Supplement nutrients

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.

Above we introduced what children's growing pains are. We know that children may experience growing pains when they grow rapidly. Children do not know how to take care of themselves, so parents should divert the attention of children who have growing pains, and can give children who have growing pains local massage and hot compresses. In addition, they can also provide children with nutritional supplements.