The law of children's development should be mastered. The chief pediatrician of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine told us that a parent came to see her recently. His third-grade daughter 14 years old has excellent grades, but her height is only 1.38 meters. He once went to the hospital to check the child's bone age. The doctor said that his daughter's bone age is close to closure, and her height may stop growing around 1.40 meters. He doesn't know what to do now.
"There are many such children coming to see a doctor clinically." Ye Jin said that the earlier you pay attention to your child's height, the better, especially for children with poor genetic background (that is, parents' height is not ideal) or with special wishes for height, you should pay special attention to them at birth, because the nutrition and development of children in their mother's womb will directly affect their growth and development after birth.
Many parents mistakenly believe that there is no need to worry about their children's future height before they develop. As long as it develops normally, it will not be worse than others. When children should grow taller, but there is still no sign of growing taller, parents begin to worry. At this time, most children's epiphysis has been or will be closed soon, and the best treatment opportunity has been missed. Reasonable nutrition, scientific exercise and regular physical examination are important factors to ensure the healthy growth of children.
65,438+00 Jumping rope and other sports help children improve their height. Ye Jin said that a reasonable nutritional mix is an important factor to maintain the healthy growth of children. Whether it is height growth or intellectual development, only a good nutritional state can give full play to a child's genetic potential. Especially in infancy, it is a critical period for children's growth and development. Advocate breastfeeding after the child is born. When the baby is 4-6 months old, it is necessary to add muddy food and gradually transition to semi-solid and solid food. At this stage, let the baby taste different flavors of food, from less to more, from fine to coarse, from one to many. Through this stage of feeding, children can avoid partial eclipse and picky eaters, thus developing good eating habits and laying the foundation for healthy growth.
On the premise of ensuring children's scientific diet and nutrition, scientific sports can promote children's development, improve children's physique and enhance their physical resistance. Scientific exercise can also adjust the body shape, make the body proportion more reasonable and the height more ideal.
Director Ye introduced that exercise can also stimulate the pituitary gland to secrete growth hormone, promote the generation of epiphyseal osteoblasts, make dry bones grow and increase bone density. Regular scientific exercise can increase muscle volume and quality, thus improving muscle movement speed and endurance. At the same time, exercise consumes excess calories to keep body fat within a reasonable range.
The sports that help children improve are: high jump, skipping rope, basketball, volleyball, running, parallel bars, pull-ups, aerobics, swimming and running.
It is very important to do regular growth monitoring. Growth monitoring refers to repeatedly measuring the height and weight of children of a certain age. The height and weight measured each time reflect the growth level of the child at that time. The growth rate of children is the most direct, simple and effective method to judge whether there is growth disorder. By continuously measuring the height in different periods, we can see whether the growth rate of height is normal.
Experts suggest that parents should accurately measure their children's height and weight at least once every six months, and carefully record and save the data. Because these figures not only record the footprints of children's growth, but also reflect the growth of children at different ages.
In addition, parents should also give their children regular physical examinations, record the measured data in different periods, connect the recorded points several times and draw a simple growth curve. If the child's growth curve shows a steady upward trend, it means that the growth rate is normal; If the curve changes little or drops, it means that there may be problems with the child's growth. Parents should take their children to the hospital for examination as soon as possible, find out the causes of their children's developmental retardation and carry out targeted treatment.
The core nutrition that affects children's height The daily diet structure plays an important role in children's height. Adequate and reasonable nutrition supply can help children grow taller to the maximum extent. In order to make children grow taller, the following three core nutrients are essential in the diet.
A large number of experiments at home and abroad have proved that adequate lysine supplementation can stimulate the pituitary gland to increase the secretion of growth hormone. These studies have also identified biomolecular indicators related to bone growth, such as ALP (bone alkaline phosphatase), IGF- 1 (insulin-like growth factor), TGF-b (transfer growth factor), OC (osteocalcin), NO (nitric oxide) and so on. These active factors produced and secreted by bone cells increased obviously under the action of lysine. It shows that lysine can activate the proliferation of bone cells and stimulate their functional activity.
Zinc and zinc directly participate in DNA replication: the research on zinc participating in DNA replication shows that; In the case of zinc deficiency, the replication speed of DNA in unit time is obviously slowed down, and the amount of DNA synthesis is also obviously reduced, thus slowing down or stopping cell division. The elucidation of this cellular and molecular mechanism of zinc finally reveals the secret why zinc deficiency will lead to growth and development stagnation.
Calcium There is about 1300g of calcium in human body, and 99% of this calcium exists in bones and teeth. Therefore, calcium is not only the main functional component of bones and teeth, but also the storage of calcium in human body. Bone can be hard and straight, which is inseparable from the biomineralization of calcium. It is conceivable that calcium-deficient bones become soft and deformed, and the growth of children is impossible.
According to the survey published by the Ministry of Health in 2004, the intake of core nutrients such as lysine, zinc and calcium in infants in China is seriously insufficient. Our average daily calcium deficiency rate is as high as 59%, and children are even lower. However, the zinc deficiency report shows that the zinc deficiency rate of infants under 1 year old is as high as 93%, and children of other age groups are generally deficient in zinc. Parents should pay attention to supplement these nutrients to their children in their daily lives. ...
Food to help children grow taller. So what foods help your baby grow taller? Let's have a look.
The height of dairy products depends on the growth and development of bones, among which the growth of long bones of lower limbs is most closely related to height. In other words, only the growth of epiphyseal chondrocytes in long bones can make the human body grow taller. Calcium and phosphorus are the main components of bones, so milk, shrimp skin, green leafy vegetables, kelp, laver and other foods rich in calcium and phosphorus need to be supplemented. The growth of bones is inseparable from calcium, and the calcium content in milk is very high. A cup of milk every morning and evening and a cup of yogurt after lunch are the best ways to supplement calcium, which can be digested and absorbed well. Let children drink 500 ml of milk every day to promote their growth. Milk also has a certain role in helping sleep. Drinking a cup of pure warm milk before going to bed is good for children. Younger or newly weaned children can choose children's nutritional formula. Because it is scientifically and artificially matched, it is close to the nutrients of breast milk and easy to absorb. Children of other ages can drink pure milk, yogurt and eat cheese. It should be noted that sweet and sour milk drinks are not milk, but mainly water.
Bean products and beans are the only foods with high protein, high fat and high calorie that can compete with animal foods. It has always been loved by health care workers and vegetarians, and high-quality bean products are more beneficial to human body than whole beans. Here are some common bean products.
Tofu: protein content of water tofu is about 7.2%, and that of old tofu is 10.4%. Tofu is called "plant meat" because it contains more protein and fat, and it has the functions of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, clearing away lung heat and caring skin, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Tofu is easily digested and absorbed by human body, which is a good way for the elderly and infirm to supplement high-quality protein. Tofu, as a kind of food with the same origin of medicine and food, has many functions, such as invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency. Therefore, eating tofu regularly can protect the liver, promote metabolism, enhance immunity and detoxify.