What should I do if my child grows too fast?

For a long time, parents hope that their children will grow faster and faster, but in reality it is often not as they imagine. Some children grow faster and some grow slower. For children who grow too fast, parents must feed their children more nutritious food and give them more calcium to prevent their children from growing too fast and causing bone deformation. If you are really worried, you can take your child to consult a professional doctor.

Parents should pay attention to their children's growth spurts before puberty

Generally speaking, girls enter puberty between the ages of 11 and 13, and boys between the ages of 13 and 15. Parents should pay attention to whether their children are experiencing growth spurts before puberty. If a child's development is obvious before puberty, he or she needs to go to the hospital for a detailed examination to check whether his or her bone age is much greater than his or her actual age.

What should I do if my child is precocious?

If a child does suffer from precocious puberty, in order to delay the closure of the epiphyseal line and give the child more space to grow taller, you can use the method of nourishing kidney yin to delay the closure of the epiphyseal line. Most of the methods of nourishing kidney yin are diet therapy, such as eating more black foods, such as black sesame, black beans, black rice, black fungus, kelp, seaweed, black-bone chicken, etc.

At the same time, exercise and sleep are also important. Moderate bouncing exercises can promote blood circulation and nourish the epiphyseal cartilage. Quality sleep every day can promote the secretion of growth hormone, all of which can delay the closure of the epiphyseal line.

Adolescence is a critical period for children's growth and development. Parents should adjust their diet in daily life and not blindly feed their children supplements and fried foods. At the same time, they should pay attention to their children's psychological state and provide appropriate guidance.

Growth and development stage

1. Infancy (under 3 years old - rapid growth period): From birth to 3 years old, the child is in a period of rapid growth. The fastest growth rate is in the first year after birth, and the baby can grow up to 25 cm. The growth rate in the second year is 10 cm. This period is mainly about the regulation of nutritional status and growth hormone.

2. Childhood (3 years old to puberty, i.e. stable growth period): From the age of 3 until the onset of puberty (about 10 years old for girls and about 12 years old for boys), growth during this period is mainly regulated by growth hormone and thyroid hormone, with an annual growth of 5-7 cm.

3. Puberty (accelerated growth period): After entering puberty, children's growth accelerates again due to the increase in sex hormone levels. Growth hormone and sex hormones work together. In addition to promoting growth, sex hormones also promote sexual maturity and epiphyseal closure, which ultimately leads to cessation of height growth. During puberty, girls can increase by 20-25 cm in height, while boys' puberty starts 2 years later than girls, so they can gain 8-10 cm more height than girls.

Growth and development rules

1. Stages and procedures of growth and development

(1) Stages of growth and development: Growth and development is a continuous process consisting of different developmental stages. Based on the characteristics of these stages and the differences in living and learning environments, the growth and development process of children and adolescents can be divided into several age periods: infancy, early childhood, childhood, adolescence and youth.

(2) Procedural nature of growth and development: Growth and development has a certain procedure, and each stage is connected in sequence. The development of the previous stage lays the necessary foundation for the next stage; any developmental obstacles at any stage will have an adverse impact on the next stage.

Fetal and infant development follows the "head-to-tail development law". In terms of growth rate, the head grows fastest during the fetal period, the trunk grows fastest during infancy, and the lower limbs grow faster than the head and trunk during the period of 2 to 6 years old. Therefore, the body proportions of children are constantly changing, from an oversized head (4/8 of the body), a long trunk (3/8), and short lower limbs (1/8) at 2 months of age to a more symmetrical proportion (strong head 1/8, weak trunk 4/8, and lower limbs 3/8) at 6 years of age. From the perspective of motor development, children must go through the developmental stages of raising their head, turning their head, rolling over, sitting upright, crawling, and standing before they can walk. The regularity of hand movement development is more obvious. Newborns will only move their upper limbs unconsciously; they begin to take objects at 4 to 5 months, but can only grab with all their hands; they can use their fingers to pick up things at 10 months; around 2 years old, their hand movements are more accurate, and they can eat with a spoon; fine hand movements (such as writing, drawing, etc.) are basically fully developed until around 6 to 7 years old.

Childhood and adolescence development follows a "centripetal rhythm". The order of morphological development of various parts of the body is: lower limbs before upper limbs, limbs before trunk, showing a regular change from bottom to top and from the distal ends of the limbs to the central trunk. The growth spurt of the foot during puberty begins first and stops first; after the foot spurt, the calf begins to grow spurt, followed by the thigh, pelvic width, chest width, shoulder width, torso height, and finally chest wall thickness. The order of the upper limb growth spurt is hand, forearm and upper arm. The epiphysis of the hand also heal from far to near, in the order of distal end of phalanges, middle end, proximal end, metacarpal bone, carpal bone, radius, and proximal end of ulna.

2. Uneven growth rate

During the entire growth period, the growth rate of an individual is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, which is uneven. Therefore, the growth rate curve is wave-like. From fetus to adult, there are two growth spurts: the first is from 4 months of fetal development to 1 year after birth; the second occurs in early puberty, about two years earlier for girls than for boys. The height increases by about 27.5cm during the 4th to 6th month of fetal development, which accounts for about half of the newborn's height and is the fastest growing stage in life; the weight increases by about 2.3kg during the 7th to 9th month of fetal development, which accounts for more than 2/3 of the normal newborn's weight and is also the fastest growing stage in life. The growth rate begins to slow down after birth, but in the first year after birth, the height increases by 20 to 25 cm, about 40% to 50% of the height at birth; the weight increases by 6 to 7 kg, about twice the weight at birth. These are the fastest growth years after birth. In the second year after birth, height increases by about 10 cm and weight increases by about 2 to 3 kg. After 2 years old and before puberty, the growth rate slows down and remains relatively stable, with an average annual height increase of 4 to 5 cm and weight increase of 1.5 to 2.0 kg until the beginning of puberty. After puberty begins, the growth rate accelerates again, with height generally increasing by 57 cm per year. When the growth rate reaches its peak, it can reach 10 to 12 cm per year. The increase in boys is greater than that in girls. Body weight generally increases by about 4 to 5 kg per year, and can reach 8 to 10 kg per year during peak periods. After the puberty growth spurt, the growth rate slows down again, and height stops increasing around 17 to 18 years old for girls and 19 to 20 years old for boys. Boys have a larger growth spurt and their growth lasts longer, so when they enter adulthood, the values ​​of most of their morphological indicators are higher than those of girls.