What causes knee pain in children?

Many people may have had inexplicable knee pain when they were young, and it usually disappears after a while, so they don't pay much attention to it. So, what is the cause of this kind of knee pain in children?

First, there are growing pains caused by the child's rapid growth rate. Growing pains are a common occurrence that causes joint pain in children. Because the bones of children at this stage grow rapidly, the nerves, tendons, and muscles around the bones grow more slowly, so there will be a kind of stretching pain.

The pain mostly occurs in children up and down the knee joint, mostly in the evening or before bedtime, and the pain lasts from a few minutes to an hour, and goes away quickly after a warm compress or light massage.

Second, it can also be caused by hip synovitis. This disease is also a common cause of knee pain in children aged 3 to 10 years, most of which manifest as unilateral pain, more in men than in women. In general, the pain can go away within a few hours or days after some medications**.

Third, knee pain in children may also be caused by calcium deficiency. Bone growth is the fastest in early childhood, when children need a lot of calcium to help bone growth, if the food consumed by children at this time can not provide enough calcium to the body, it will cause knee pain. Knee pain of this reason can be relieved as long as calcium supplementation is taken in time, and buying a little calcium tablets and letting the patient bask in the sun can relieve this symptom well.

In addition, it may also be caused by some more serious orthopedic diseases, such as orthostatic spondylitis. This kind of disease will bring great suffering to the patient, and in severe cases, it can even cause paralysis in the child.

Therefore, when your child has knee pain, people must take him to the hospital for a professional examination in time to determine the specific cause of this knee pain and prescribe the right medicine. Do not rely on your so-called life experience to make absolute judgments and use what you think is a medical treatment**. So as not to delay the disease, or even aggravate the disease.

Most children's knee pain is not a major disease, so it is okay for people to do it as soon as they notice the problem. In addition, in the process of children's growth, parents should pay attention to some habits of children, let children do outdoor sports, do not let children stay at home all day, outdoor sports can strengthen people's physical fitness. At the same time, to ensure the nutrition of children, the human body needs a large amount of nutrients for growth and development during childhood.

Normally, because children are growing taller, their joints will feel sore, so it is recommended to give children more milk and calcium tablets.

Children's knee pain may be caused by calcium deficiency, you can give your child proper calcium supplementation, because the child's growth is very fast, if your own nutrition can not keep up with the pain, so you must pay attention to the child's vitamin supplementation, you can also let the child bask in the sun, knee pain should try to avoid high-intensity exercise, so as not to cause more serious consequences.

1. Growing pains are a common phenomenon that causes joint pain in children, especially in children aged 3 to 8 years old, because the bones grow rapidly, and the growth of the nerves, tendons, and muscles around them is relatively slow, so it will produce pulling pain. The pain usually appears in the knee joint, is sore or tingling, usually in the evening or before bedtime, and lasts for a few minutes and rarely lasts more than an hour. The pain is not clearly fixed and is not accompanied by redness, swelling, or heat, and will disappear quickly if you apply a warm compress or light massage.

2. The common cause of knee pain is calcium deficiency. When the knee cartilage is deficient in calcium, the bone becomes thinner and stiffer, and the tolerance to pressure is correspondingly weakened; Pain occurs when there is excessive activity or excessive local pressure. It is necessary to take advantage of hail as calcium supplementation, and eat more foods high in calcium, such as milk, soy milk, tofu, bone broth, shrimp, bean curd, cabbage, etc.

3. Knee pain caused by trauma is easy to distinguish, mostly after fracture, knee impact, ligament strain, joint pain and swelling are obvious.

4 Hip synovitis is a common disease that causes knee pain in children aged 3 to 10 years, common around 5 years old, mostly unilateral, acute hip pain or radiation to the inner thigh and knee, more in men than in women. The child refuses to walk or limps when walking, has no joint swelling but has localized tenderness, and an MRI shows a small effusion of fluid in the joint.

**On the above, children with mild lesions can be conservative**, bed rest, forbidden weight-bearing walking, most of the sick children can return to normal in 3 5 days, but in order to prevent **, it is generally recommended to rest for two weeks, for the course of the disease for more than a week and the clinical symptoms are more serious, the drug should be carried out at the same time as the source rock lesion for hospitalization traction**.