Your children complain of leg pain ?
What if it was due to their growth?
Growth spurts can give children traumatic and hard-to-bear pain.
Fortunately, there are natural gestures to perform on a daily basis in order to calm anxieties and suffering.
Here are my little effective and natural tips to calm pain due to childhood growth spurts:
Growth spurts usually affect children 3 to 6 years old , then from 8 to 14 years.
Yes, know that they also concern teenagers, girl or boy.
These are the two age groups where children grow the most.
Fortunately, babies are not affected by these pains.
They are characterized by pain in the calves , the thighs and the back of the knees mainly.
Besides the calf, the knee, children may complain of pain in an ankle, a foot or just one whole leg.
To recognize a growth spurt, know that:
- they appear especially at night , because growth hormone is secreted during sleep,
- they touch the front parts both legs, either simultaneously or alternately,
- attacks last a few minutes, even an hour and resolve on their own.
Symptoms may also be accompanied by a bout of fever and severe fatigue.
Medically, there are few solutions .
Growth spurts usually disappear as they came. This is not reassuring for a child.
It is important to calm your anxieties , because they cause nervous tension that can lead to greater pain.
Explaining to him that his body is growing and that everyone has these pains one day or another will reassure him .
Then, in a quiet place, take the time to gently massage painful areas or relieve it with a hot water bottle while he rests.
You can finally, if you wish, give him homeopathy to grow without pain!
This will give him the impression of having a treatment and will relieve him somewhat without danger (Arnica montana 9 CH:5 granules 2 times a day, less than 2 € the tube).
Two natural solutions are available to us, depending on our preferences.
We will choose one, or we will alternate the two . Apply 2 to 3 times per day.
- The camphor massages :it is a question of massaging the painful areas by applying alcohol or camphor oil.
Your child will feel a gentle warmth, then a relief.
But be careful, this remedy cannot be applied to children under 6 years old.
- The green clay poultices :clay has miraculous virtues, I often tell you about it.
Its relaxing and anti-inflammatory benefits will effectively relieve your child.
For the clay poultice recipe, follow this link.
Growth spurt pain is more common in very active children .
This finding highlighted the small dangers of sport practiced too often or at too high a level.
Indeed, especially during puberty, as muscle mass increases, some muscles have increased power .
But they are placed on bones which have not finished growing.
If the sports activity is intense, very frequent, the muscles will press too hard on bones that are still too cartilaginous.
Rest will therefore be required, with decrease or full stop physical activity for a few weeks or even a few months.
Of course, last very important little thing, it is necessary to help the bones of your child to develop along with his muscles.
It is therefore necessary to make him consume a lot of calcium, which you will find in dairy products, or even spinach, lentils, chickpeas, anchovies, sardines, salmon...
Also bet on vitamin D, which will fix the calcium naturally on the bones.
You will find it in the same fish, but also in eggs, butter, calf's liver, and... the sun!
