Growing Pains Facts
Growing Pains aren’t actually a disease, so kids you don’t have to worry on it. Even a physician consultation isn’t compulsory. Nevertheless, it can definitely be hurting and upsetting. In the ages of 3 to 12 years old, kids can suffer from this stage of growing up. The real thing is that physicians don’t actually deem that growing pain is a pain in growing. Yet, stories told that in truth it stops when the growth stage is finished. During the teenager stage, almost a whole percentage of the teenagers don’t suffer from it any longer.
Pains are felt in the legs. The front of the thighs or the upper side of the legs, calves or the back side of the legs below the knees, and right at the back of the knees are the areas of the body that hurt. For most cases, it happens in both leg parts.
Kids usually feel the growing pains during bedtime story telling, when they are about to go to sleep. Or it can even happen in the middle of the night, waking them up from a good sleep. What is good is that when they get up from bed during mornings, it won’t feel painful anymore.
Growing Pains Reasons
Muscles are the ones hurting in growing pains and not the bones or joint areas. And because of this, a lot of physicians say that kids only suffer from it, when they get tired from a sport or trekking activity or any strenuous goings-on. By the time they sleep at night, kids are complaining on leg aches and pains.
Healing Growing Pains
Pain medicines can reduce the muscle sensations that the kids is experiencing. Some of these pills are acetaminophen or ibuprofen. On the other hand though, aspirin intakes are prohibited to kids, because they might undergo from a rare severe illness - Reye syndrome.
Follow these steps to stop the pains:
- Warm the hurting area with a heating pad
- Do stretching activities with the legs, same exercises in gym
- Give a good rub down on the pain spot
Physician is needed by the time, the kid has already a fever, limping behavior, or swollen/red/puffed up legs.
Still, growing shouldn’t hinder kids’ daily fun stuffs like running and playing. Develop a healthy communication relationship with your kids, so that when they went through the stage of growing pains, they will know what to tell you. Ensure them that it is just normal, or can even be absent for some kids. They can outgrow growing pains.
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Hi Margot,thank you for this info .Nice post!!
very interesting fact! thanks for sharing…
this post is very very helpful. my stepdaughter complains about her legs hurting her so much. it usually happens at night and she would wake up crying from pain.Now i know what it is. We do massage her legs to ease the pain and it helps. Thanks for this, ill tell my husband about this. we were starting to get worried about the pain in her legs.