The ratio of height and weight in a child who has emerged from infancy

The fact that the ratio of height and weight in an infant is an important parameter for determining the correctness of its development is known to almost everyone. From this parameter depends not only the health of the baby, but also the correspondence of reflexes to age on a monthly basis. No pediatrician will let her mother with a baby breast out with a monthly consultation, without measuring her height and weight. If something seems suspicious to him, the child will be given extra food or, conversely, transferred to less calorie foods.

But as soon as the baby grows up, many parents think that this parameter is no longer important. If the child is too fat - think that it will grow. Not enough weight, believe that it is wonderful, in the future will not get fat.

This is an erroneous opinion! The correct ratio of the weight and height of the child in subsequent years, including adolescence, is no less important than the proportion of growth and weight in infants.

What is dangerous deviation in weight in children?

The child himself can not notice his excessive weight, be mobile, quickly join the children's team. However, excess weight is an additional burden, first of all, on the cardiovascular system. This is fraught with thinning of the vessels, can cause a dystrophic change in the heart muscle.

If the ratio of height and weight in a child is disturbed with proper nutrition in the direction of weight gain, then it is extremely dangerous to put the baby on a diet alone. It is possible that this indicator is associated with a violation of metabolic processes in the body, the malfunctioning of the endocrine system.

Lack of weight is also an occasion to consult a doctor. With full nutrition, a weight deficit occurs:

• In helminthic invasion;
• If nutrients that enter the body are not absorbed for some reason;
• With insufficient production of bile;
• When violations of the endocrine system.

Often the lack of weight in older children is caused by the fact that adolescents are addicted to bad habits, one of which is smoking.

Lack of weight in childhood and adolescence leads to problems in adulthood. With such disharmony in young men, the production of spermatozoa decreases and their quality deteriorates. To girls the excessive leanness threatens infertility.

How do I know if the weight is right?

There is a special table of the ratio of height / weight of the child. It shows the averaged data, depending on the age. But you can determine the body mass index (BMI) yourself and on its basis find out the most accurate values of the parameters.

To do this, you should weigh the child and measure his height. Then calculate the BMI the same way as in the case of adults, that is, the mass divided by the height in the square. And only then substitute the values in the table. When compiling a table, which indicates the ratio of height and weight in the child, account is taken of belonging to a certain sex.

As an example, a table of approximately the correct ratio of weight and height for adolescent boys.

Small deviations from these indicators on the health of the adolescent are not affected.

Adolescents and weight

Teenagers are sensitive to their appearance. Girls compare themselves with famous models, boys - with famous athletes. Own reflection in the mirror of adolescents rarely suits. To get the desired shape, girls sit down on a diet that is extremely harmful to the growing body, and boys sometimes start taking proteins.

It is very important that parents find out the age-related discrepancies in the indicators, if any, and explain to the adolescent how important it is to eat properly in the period of active growth of the body. Health is laid down in childhood, and the violation of metabolic processes in the future will lead to serious problems that will affect the appearance.

If the ratio of height and weight in a child begins to change drastically, it is very important to determine what causes it is caused: natural, when a teenager develops and becomes an adult, or he specifically tries to correct external data?

In the case when the child is dissatisfied with the appearance, he may have psychological problems. If the parents are sufficiently attentive to their "adult" children, they monitor their condition, then teenage depression due to lack of weight or its excess can be avoided.