Growth pain is felt mostly in childhood and adolescence. In these periods of life, the body can grow up by several centimeters in a month. This rapid growth may be accompanied by pain, and children use to complain about it and it tends to wake them at night. There is an increased need of daily intake of calcium during more rapid bone growth, which is also called the growth spurt. The appropriate supplementation of calcium and vitamin D3 can alleviate the growth pain.
How much calcium should be taken in childhood and adolescence per day?
| Age | Recommended daily dose of calcium | |
|---|---|---|
| Source: Society for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease, Slovak Medical Society | ||
| Children | 0 – 6 months | 400 mg |
| 6 months – 1 year | 600 mg | |
| 1 – 5 years | 800 mg | |
| 6 - 10 years | from 800 to 1 200 mg | |
| Adolescents | 11 – 24 years | from 1 200 to 1 500 mg |
