How tall can a girl grow after menstruation?

During puberty, especially before menarche, girls' physical growth accelerates linearly, with an average growth of 9 cm per year. After a girl's menarche, her growth rate may slow down, but it does not mean that she will stop growing. It's just that the rate may be relatively slower than before the first menstruation. Your height has a lot to do with your genetics and diet.

At the stage of growth and development in adolescence, it is necessary to consider supplementing calcium tablets for pregnant women, drinking more high-calcium milk, adequate sun exposure, to promote the absorption of high-quality protein, the diet should be comprehensive and diversified, avoid picky eating and partial eating, and increase jumping exercises, such as playing basketball, long jump, and fly jumping, which are also very beneficial to height growth. At the same time, ensure the quality of sleep and avoid staying up late, because the secretion of children's growth hormone is secreted at night. If you stay up late, it may affect your growth. There are still uncertainties about how much height you can grow after menstruation. If necessary, you can consider seeing a doctor for a bone line test to confirm the diagnosis.

How tall can a girl grow after her menarche?

Some parents ask, their daughters start menstruating before they are 11 years old, does that mean they will stop growing after that? How tall can they grow? This is by no means a "yes or no" question, and it cannot be explained in a few words. Just like answering the question "Does precocious puberty need treatment?", we must first understand the regularities of growth and development during puberty.

Pubertal growth and adult height?

In addition to the development of secondary sexual characteristics, accelerated height growth (significant increase in height) is a key feature of adolescent growth and development. The process of significant height increase for girls generally occurs half a year to a year after the breasts begin to grow, while for boys it occurs around the time of voice change. This process lasts about a year. The average growth rate for girls is 8 to 9 cm per year, and that for boys is 1 to 2 cm more than that for girls. After this period, the growth rate slows down and returns to the pre-pubertal speed, which is about 4 to 5 cm per year. After one year, it drops sharply to only 1 to 2 cm per year, until the epiphyseal line completely shuts off and stops growing, reaching adult height. The deceleration time is around the time of the first menstruation for girls and after the voice change for boys.

Pubertal growth has a key impact on adult height, and the key influencing factors are:

The height at the beginning of puberty (when girls' breasts begin to grow, boys' scrotums become loose, and testicles become larger): those who are short at this time will be shorter no matter whether they start puberty early or late.

The rate at which blood cells increase in size varies from person to person, ranging from 6.4 to 11 centimeters. Some children have almost no growth retardation. This situation usually has a pathological basis. If there is potential chronic active hepatitis, malnutrition or even endocrine abnormalities, the cause should be checked in time to avoid losing this period of height that should be increased.

Supplementing the growth spurt significantly increases the duration. Some children slow down after only half a year, while others can continue the process for 2 years.

The period from the beginning of growth to the complete fusion of the epiphyseal line under weight-bearing Bone growth is the basis of human growth. Bone has a growth zone, called the epiphyseal line; in childhood, the bone cells in this area actively multiply to make the bone grow. During growth and development, bone growth and maturity are accompanied by the process of improvement. When the estrogen secreted by sex hormones (ovaries or testicles) reaches a certain high concentration in late adolescence, it will cause bone growth to accelerate and maturity to accelerate, until the epiphyseal line and the backbone are combined, that is, the bone growth zone is closed and growth stops. At this time, there is no growth-promoting substance to make the bone grow again. This is why adults cannot grow taller.

Balance between growth and development during puberty

There is a harmonious balance between growth and maturity during puberty, which enables children to eventually grow into adults with adult physical and reproductive functions. If it is beneficial to height, it is hoped that the balance between the two will tilt towards growth, that is, growth is faster than maturity. In this way, it is not difficult to understand that the height of adults will increase. As an improvement, the speed is related to the sustainable growth period. Those who grow slowly will close their epiphyseal line later, and their adult height will be taller than those who grow quickly. It is natural for the growth regularity to be combined with the above conditions. But unfortunately, those who develop puberty early will always have a tendency to develop too fast, which will cause the epiphyseal line to close too early, resulting in short stature in adults. On the contrary, although puberty is delayed or progresses slowly, the growth rate is not satisfactory, and the adult height is usually not satisfactory.