Want your child to grow taller? Huaxi experts teach you how to do this...

A previous survey by the World Health Organization showed that children's growth rates vary in different seasons, among which the fastest seasons for height growth are May and June.

Now is the golden season for children to grow taller, and many parents are worried about their children's height.

In addition to preparing a variety of nutritious recipes, exercise is also not neglected.

Among parents, there is an exercise that is gradually becoming popular to help children grow taller, and that is "high jump".

Some parents said that high jumping is indeed effective. On the 30th day of persisting in high jumping, their children successfully grew 3 cm taller.

It is completely understandable that parents want their children to win at the "starting line of height".

After all, academic performance can be improved slowly, but if height doesn't keep up when you are a child, it will be difficult to improve when you grow up.

But can touching your height every day really help you grow taller?

What are the factors that determine a baby's height during the golden period of physical development?

How can we help babies grow correctly and effectively? How can we judge whether the height growth of babies is normal?

Don’t worry, doctors from West China will answer all your questions one by one.

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Height is also

7 points are determined by fate, 3 points are determined by hard work

60%-85% of a child's height is determined by genes.

If parents are short but want their baby to grow up tall, it may not be easy.

In addition to congenital factors, acquired factors such as nutrition, sleep, exercise, development, living habits, environment, and mental state will also affect a child's height.

● Nutrition: If the mother does not consume enough nutrition during pregnancy, the height of some babies will be affected after birth.

In addition, children should ensure that their dietary nutrition intake is rich and sufficient during their growth and development period, otherwise it will also affect their height.

● Sleep: A child’s height mainly depends on growth hormone . When the child is in deep sleep, more growth hormone will be secreted.

● Development: Precocious puberty, lack of sleep and other conditions can also affect height.

● Diseases: Diseases such as hypothyroidism and hypopituitarism will directly affect the child's height.

●Exercise: Reasonable exercise helps children grow taller.

These acquired factors that affect height complement each other:

For example, deep, high-quality sleep and proper exercise can help promote the secretion of growth hormone;

Regular exercise will affect the quality of sleep. At the same time, energy consumption will increase, and the amount of nutrition needed will increase. The more complete the nutrition intake, the more helpful it will be for physical development.

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Exercise can really

Does it affect the child's height?

Since innate genetic factors cannot be changed, can acquired efforts, such as regular exercise, help children grow taller?

To understand this question, we must first figure out: How do people grow taller?

The human body grows mainly by the growth of long bones such as the bones of the upper and lower limbs. There is a special structure at the end of these long bones: epiphyseal cartilage.

There are many chondrocytes in the epiphyseal cartilage. Under the action and stimulation of growth hormone, the long bones will continue to grow to both sides, and the height will increase accordingly.

In a person's life, the important periods of height growth are before puberty and during puberty.

Before puberty, the main factor affecting chondrocytes is growth hormone , and the secretion of growth hormone does not fluctuate much during this period.

Therefore, the growth rate of height from infancy to adolescence is not fast, but relatively stable.

During puberty, sex hormones come into play and work together with growth hormone to accelerate the growth of long bones.

Therefore, most people's height growth period is during adolescence. After adolescence, height basically stops growing.

Back to our original question, will regular exercise help children grow taller?

The answer is: exercise can stimulate the secretion of growth hormone and has a certain positive effect on children's growth, but it should be done in moderation.

The World Health Organization believes that children and adolescents aged 5-17 should exercise at least 3 times a week.

In addition to the high jump we mentioned earlier, doctors from West China recommend that parents can also take their children to try aerobic exercises such as brisk walking, jogging, skipping rope, running, swimming, and ball games.

In addition, the editor reminds parents:

Only by letting children like sports, enjoy sports and experience the happiness that sports brings can we achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Children don’t like it and just do it to get by. Not only will they fail to achieve the goal of growing taller, but they are also prone to injury during exercise.

When choosing a sport for your child, pay attention to the child's psychology, whether he or she likes it or resists it.

If there is resistance, is it resistance to the parents' attitude or resistance to the sports event?

Don’t forget that a happy mood is also good for children’s growth~

Finally, let’s focus on one key point: How to help children grow taller?

First, ensure that your child has a balanced diet and adequate nutritional intake;

At the same time, it is also very important to let children have high-quality sleep and a pleasant living atmosphere;

In addition, reasonable exercise will achieve twice the result with half the effort!

There are many forms of exercise, try to exercise the muscles of all parts of the body. In addition, no matter what type of exercise, you should pay attention to moderation.

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Bone age measurement

Is it a tax on IQ?

When it comes to the issue of children's height growth, anxious parents may often hear the term "bone age measurement":

Not growing taller? Measure your bone age! Growing slowly? Measure your bone age!

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What can bone age measurement tell us about our bodies? Is it necessary? Or is it just a waste of money?

Dr. Zhu Jianwei from the Orthopedic Sports Medicine Center of West China Hospital of Sichuan University said:

Measuring bone age is not a waste of time. It can evaluate the development of a child's epiphyseal bones.

The child's developmental age can be estimated based on the degree of development of the epiphysis, helping parents to detect abnormalities in their child's growth and development in a timely manner.

However, medical examinations are not routine physical examinations, and they are not arbitrary decisions made on a whim. Only when there are real developmental problems can a professional doctor make an assessment and decide whether it is necessary.

In these cases, if parents want to have a clearer understanding of their children's height development, they can conduct bone age testing and seek help from a doctor:

Being significantly shorter or taller than peers, having grown in height for a period of time but suddenly not growing or growing slowly, being obese or thin, etc.