Transitional age, and more specifically, during fast physical development of boys and girls is almost the same, starting with 11-12 years of age and lasts for up to 17-18 years.
For 12 years in the body of adolescents begins endocrine splash. It occurs production of sex hormones increases the level of thyroxine produced by the thyroid gland, as well as insulin produced by the pancreas. Adolescents are increasing all the parts of the body, and, their growth rates are not the same.
During this period, they resemble the ugly ducklings, before you turn into beautiful swans, due to the disparity of hands, feet and body. First, lengthen the arms, legs, pelvis, and when they reach the maximum programmed in the genes begins to stretch the body. For 15-16 years, this disparity goes, but there is still a teenager, angular, awkward and did not have time to get used to the new proportions of the body, producing a good chance of injuries.
These features of adolescence can be easily avoided if your child will pay attention to the sport. First of all to support adolescent health help diving, which allows to work all the muscles of the body. This sport is good for the spine, as in adolescents because of rising imbalances often impaired posture.
In fast-growing teenagers internal organs can not keep up the pace of growth. It affects the heart. In this period may cause heart murmurs, which sometimes accompanies hypertension. In addition to high blood pressure greater than 140/90, characterized by headache, seizures, palpitations, shortness of breath. Or maybe vice versa, dystonia manifests itself when the pressure is lower than 90/60, and the pulse is rare.
Such problems often occur in high school, leading a sedentary lifestyle, which involved 16 hours a day, and sleep for only six. What should parents do in this situation? Control pressure and heart rate every day, from time to time to advise his cardiologist, in any case not to restrict locomotor activity, make sure that a dream had to be at least 8 hours.
Growing muscles and the heart need a lot of iron to form new muscle fibers. With its lack of hemoglobin protein synthesis is disturbed, which makes red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. In this case, the adolescent develops anemia - anemia. These features are typical of adolescence especially for girls, in which menstruation begins.
If your child complains of fatigue, weakness, refuses to eat, most likely it is not enough iron. To be sure of this, you should take a blood test. With a low hemoglobin level, it is necessary to pay attention to diet.
During puberty there is hormonal changes the body, which also affects the health of adolescents. This can manifest itself in appetite, respectively, a set of extra weight. Here it is necessary to consult an endocrinologist, because it may increase blood sugar levels. Against the background of adolescent obesity may develop diabetes.
Another problem, which is worth paying attention to their parents - a vascular crises. The manifestation of their not hard to notice. Teenager sharply turns pale, covered with sweat, cold limbs are made. High school students often experience dizziness, nausea, discomfort in the heart and stomach and may even faint. These symptoms may occur especially in hot weather, when teenagers spend a lot of time on their feet or have to sit for long periods. All of these symptoms are associated not only with an unstable mechanism of the endocrine system, but also the nervous regulation.
With age, vascular reactions are normalized, but in the meantime take care of teenagers from the moral feelings.
