Children's high heels are unnecessary and inappropriate for children

Doctor: children often wear high heels to affect development

In recent years, it has become common for young children to wear several centimeters of high heels. Especially in the hot summer, in the streets and alleys of kunming, little girls in halter skirts can be seen standing on the heels of xiaogao. Some girls are even only 4 or 5 years old. This phenomenon has also caused many people's concern, the body is in the developmental period of children often wear high heels really good?

Does the little girl really fit in princess heels?

"Adolescent bone and soft tissue are in the growth stage, and wearing high heels for a long time is not good." Duan hong, head of the orthopaedic department of the first people's hospital of kunming, said that when standing and walking in high heels, the weight would concentrate on the first to third metatarsal bone of the front palm of the foot. At the same time, these toes can also be squeezed by the tip of the shoe, the appearance of corns. Nerve tumors can also form between the metatarsal bones, leading to persistent and repeated pain symptoms. Not only that, the developing child wearing high heels for a long time, but also may cause the foot muscle weakness to form flat feet; The extrusion of the tip of the shoe, forming or aggravating bunion valgus deformity, leads to a series of diseases such as hallux disease and hammertoe.

In addition, duan hong said, the child's ankle is still in development, weak muscle strength, joint instability, easy to fall and sprain feet. When walking in high heels, the mobility of the knee and ankle joints will be affected and the force will be uneven, which is more likely to cause ankle sprain than wearing flat shoes.

Wearing high heels can also lead to a significant increase in knee load pressure, leading to the onset of degenerative osteoarthrosis. "The body has to lean forward when wearing high heels, which increases the pressure on the pelvis. If a growing girl wears high heels often, she may even have a developmental abnormality of the pelvis that could affect her future childbirth.

"For youngsters without obvious foot and ankle deformities, high heels should be worn after the full development of the musculoskeletal system, i.e. after 18 years of age." Even adults should wear high heels for no more than 4-5 hours a day, and it is best to wear heels under 5cm, according to director duan hong.

Children's shoe shop: 3 years old child has high heel to wear

On the Internet, there are many shops selling children's high heels. Input the key word "children high heels" and you will find 640 relevant shops.

In a brand children's clothing store in jinjiang road, kunming, there are more than 10 styles of women's children's shoes with heels in the window, of which the tallest is about 3cm.

Snail river's children's shoes wholesale market, children's high heels are a wide range of prices from dozens to several hundred yuan. Most of the shoes are between 1.5 cm and 2.5 cm, and there are 3cm high heels for children as young as 3 years old.

The shoes with a slightly larger heel range from 2.5cm to 3.5cm, and also have children's shoes with a heel of up to 4cm.

The owner of a snail bay shoe store told reporters that many young girls would cry and clamour to buy the shoes, which are popular with little girls, and some parents also like to wear high heels for their children. "One time a mother wanted to buy xiao gao heels for her two-year-old daughter, but the baby was too young and there was nothing in the store." The woman said that the shoes with the heel are only suitable for children over 3 years old.

While some customers are looking for children's high heels, many stores say that many parents are wary of buying them. "the best shoes in the store are flat shoes," they say.

Moms: most of them say they have concerns

In a random survey of 50 families with girls under the age of 18, 27 parents said they would not wear high heels for their children, accounting for 54 percent of the total. Eighteen parents, 36 percent, said they could consider or occasionally buy high heels for their daughters. Another five parents said wearing high heels had no effect on their children's feet, and that the children liked and wore them beautifully, and would buy high heels for their daughters, accounting for 10 percent of the survey.

For the children themselves, 30 girls, or 60 per cent, said they liked high heels and wanted or had them. Another 40 percent would never consider wearing high heels for reasons such as school disapproval, personal dislike or fear of being teased by classmates.

Ms. Du, who has a 5-year-old daughter, "always clamors for high heels and says her classmates are wearing them." Du said she doesn't want to wear high heels to her children for fear of affecting her daughter's physical development.

A lion river snail shoe shop claims to have children's high heels for sale, but its 7-year-old daughter never wears them. "They were not allowed to wear high heels at school, so no one in the class was wearing them. If a child is willing to wear high heels, she said, she will not stand in the way of the shoes, and has repeatedly assured that they are "stable and will not fall".