Contents:
- Medical Video: Science Explains How Much Sleep You Need Depending on Your Age
- Apparently, the child's height also shows his nutritional status
- Then, how high is the ideal child according to his age?
- Girl
- Boys
Medical Video: Science Explains How Much Sleep You Need Depending on Your Age
A good child's growth can be monitored from his height. The child's height will continue to grow as he ages. Maybe you as a parent feel curious whether your child has the right height or not. Actually, how do you know what is the ideal height for children? Does your child have normal height growth?
Apparently, the child's height also shows his nutritional status
During this time, many parents think that child nutrition is only seen from body weight. In fact, the child's height can also determine whether he has a good nutritional status or not. Not many know, if short is one form of malnutrition in children, in medical conditions this is usually called stunting.
A child who is shorter than his age friends will experience various disorders of growth-development, inhibited thinking abilities, and susceptible to various infectious diseases. Usually, the condition of a short child is caused by the intake of nutrients for 1000 days of life (the first 2 years) is not fulfilled properly.
When a child has a short body, the sign that his nutrition is not enough to make his body grow normally like his friends. So, you have to know whether your child has an ideal height or not so that you know your nutritional status and health at that time.
Then, how high is the ideal child according to his age?
Actually, there is no number that is the benchmark of your child's height. Because, every child has different growth and development of the body. The rate of growth that occurs in each child is also not the same. It could be that a child grows very rapidly and finally has a higher body than his friends.
However, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are limits to where children are considered short (stunting) and have poor nutrition. In accordance with WHO provisions in 2007, a child is said to be short if the height / body length is less than:
Girl
- Age of 1 year: 68.9 cm
- 2 years old: 80 cm
- 3 years old: 87.4 cm
- 4 years old: 94.1 cm
- Age of 5 years: 100.1 cm
- Age of 6 years: 104.9 cm
- Age of 7 years: 109.9 cm
- Age of 8 years: 115 cm
- Age of 9 years: 120.3 cm
- Age of 10 years: 125.8 cm
- Age of 11 years: 131.7 cm
- 12 years old: 137.6 cm
- 13 years old: 142.5 cm
- Age of 14 years: 145.9 cm
- Age of 15 years: 147.9 cm
- Age 16 years: 148.9 cm
- Age of 17 years: 149.5 cm
- Age 18 years: 149.8 cm
Boys
- Age 1 year: 71 cm
- Age of 2 years: 81 cm
- Age of 3 years: 88.7 cm
- 4 years old: 94.9 cm
- 5 years old: 100, 7cm
- Age of 6 years: 106.1 cm
- Age of 7 years: 111.2 cm
- Age of 8 years: 116 cm
- Age of 9 years: 120.5 cm
- Age of 10 years: 125 cm
- Age 11 years: 129.7 cm
- 12 years old: 134.9 cm
- Age 13 years: 141.2 cm
- 14 years old: 147.8 cm
- Age 15 years: 153.4 cm
- Age 16 years: 157.4 cm
- Age 17 years: 159.9 cm
- Age of 18 years: 161.2 cm
An accurate examination of the height or length of a child's body can be done at the nearest health service, such as a Puskesmas and Posyandu on a regular basis.
If the child's height or length is below that number, then it's best to immediately check with the doctor to find out more about his health. Moreover, if your child is still at the age of a toddler. this can indicate that there is a problem with growth.
