Is early diagnosis and treatment of short stature the key?

Short stature of children is a matter of anxiety for every parent, but there are many factors affecting height growth, some of which are diseases that must be diagnosed and treated in a specialized clinic. As the height increase is age bounded, even if the primary disease is cured after the bone scale closure, the height will no longer increase. Therefore, the treatment of short stature should start as early as possible, preferably before the age of 10, and the earlier the better. In addition, in the clinical also found that many parents tend to short as late growth, imagining that the child will have an unexpected puberty growth period, but the result is to miss the shortness of the best diagnosis and treatment time. Parents should always measure the height of their children and compare it with the “Chinese Children’s Height Comparison Table for Children Aged 3-18”, which is generally considered to be two standard deviations below the average of children of the same age, race, and gender, i.e., short stature.