The difference between growing pains and pathological pain

When children are growing up, they often tell their parents that they have pains here and there, but when they go to the hospital for a check-up, there is nothing wrong. Over time, parents will develop a "wolf" mentality towards their children's behavior, which leads to the children not seeking timely medical treatment when they really become ill, thus delaying the disease. Below I will introduce to parents the differences between growing pains and pathological pains. Parents must learn about them.

Doctors point out that growing pains often occur in children aged 5 to 10 who are still growing. If a child's bones grow faster than his muscles during his growth period, the muscles will be pulled and pain will occur. This is a normal growth phenomenon and parents do not need to worry at all.

This type of growing pain is easy to identify. It usually occurs in the middle of the night and may cause numbness or pain in the knees, ankles, and knee joints. The degree of pain may be mild or severe and will disappear after a few nights. The next time it occurs it will last for a few nights before disappearing. There is no redness or swelling in the legs, there is no pain when pressing the leg muscles, and it does not affect walking.

When growing children have leg pain, many parents will associate it with calcium deficiency. But in fact, 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. There is no relationship between growing height and growing pains. Having growing pains does not necessarily mean that you will grow tall. Children without growing pains may also grow very tall.

3. How to relieve growing pains

Since it is not a pathological phenomenon, is there any way to relieve growing pains? Doctors say that growing pains are normal and no measures need to be taken. Taking some vitamin B1 and vitamin B6 can nourish the nerves and relieve nerve traction pain, but the effect is not great. It should be noted that you should never take painkillers casually, and the pain is not severe enough to require medication.

Growing pains are muscle pains that are intermittent; juvenile arthritis will cause redness and swelling of the joints, and the location of the pain will change; pathological bone pain lasts a long time and is very intense; sprains or fractures will cause pain when pressed, and the fracture site will be red and swollen; childhood leukemia may also cause bone pain, but may be accompanied by symptoms such as fever, anemia, pale complexion, and pain in both bones and joints.