Growing Pains of Children

Hello Everyone,

One of the most common thing every parent pass through is their child crying at night due to leg pains.

Kids might wake up in middle of night with pain and will be relieved by massaging and comforting. This is known as Growing Pains of childhood.

It occurs in around 25% – 40% of kids around the globe.

Age of onset: 3 -5 years and later in 8- 12 years.

Signs and symptoms:

• Muscular pain, No involvement of Joints.
• Common site is calves, thighs or behind the knee.
• Joint are normal appearing (if some other joint disease is there then joint might look warm, swollen, red or tender )
• Never in morning, mostly occur in evening or late night; sometimes even might wake kids up from sleep.
• Not daily occuring.

What is the cause of growing pains?

It occurs due to physical activities of child like running, jumping, climbing and playing around whole day. Bone growth directly dn’t produce pains in legs.

Diagnosis:

It is a clinical diagnosis to be made by doctor. Most important factor is that child responds to touch when in pain i.e children loves smooth massage. In other serious illnesses children do not like your touch, they do not like to be moved as movement can make pain worse.

However other serious illnesses should be ruled out with help of Doctor. Sometime few blood test and x-ray needed to be done.

What can be done at home?

You can help your child with simple steps as below at home.

• massaging the area where maximum pain with oil.
• Gently stretching the involved muscle
• Warm water bag can be applied to relieve the pain.
• Epsom Salt Baths – not only will they be relaxing, but the skin rapidly absorbs and utilizes magnesium transdermally (through the skin) which can help relieve muscle aches. Put 2 cups of Epsom Salts in the bathtub and soak for 20 minutes.

When to rule out other Diseases :

If any of the below signs and symptoms are there along with pain then you must consult doctor:

• Pain which starts in morning, long-lasting pain
• Swelling or redness in one particular area or joint
• pain associated with any localized injury
• fever
• difficulty in walking
• Rashes
• unusual behavior

Growing Pain usually subsides by morning, so some parents might feel that child is faking pain. But this is not true. Parents’ constant support will help child overcome these growing pains of Childhood.

How Homeopathy Helps ur Child :-

Homeopathy Medicines help to reduce pain n calms down cramps in legs.

They help & promote Healthy Growth of Bones and Muscules.

Help prevent pains from over exertion activities like running, swimming, jumping n other sports activities.

Homeopathic Calcium supplements are very easily absorbed in child’s body.

Some Homeopathic Medicines help increase Child’s Height as his age grows.

For more details or querries u may contact

Dr. Priyanka R. Upadhyay- +919016845967

Be Happy Be Healthy. 🙂