Nowadays, short stature in children and adolescents has become a common disease, with an incidence rate of about 3% of the population. The causes of short stature in children are also various, so how to treat short stature in children?
To treat a child with short stature, you must first learn to identify whether your child is dwarf. The current standard is: when your child is below the third percentile of the growth curve of normal healthy children of the same age and gender. In other words, people in the same area, same race, same age and same sex are ranked together from low to high, and the top 3 are called short people.
Second, treating children with short stature cannot wait. Many parents think that their children are late growing type, and they may still be able to grow taller in the future, with this appeasement attitude to observe, and as a result, when they reach the age of school or even employment, they find that their children are shorter, and at this time, their epiphyses are close to closing or have already closed, and they have missed the best time for treatment, which seriously affects the treatment effect.
Once again, it is important to trust science and not blind superstition to treat children with short stature. Many parents, once they think their children are short, indiscriminately abuse a variety of height-enhancing products, and once they eat irregular drugs or use irregular equipment and products, their children will not be able to increase their height, but suffer physical and mental harm, and most importantly, the treatment of short stature of children will be seriously affected, and it will be too late to regret.
Children with short stature is a common disease, should promptly take the child to a height increase hospital to receive formal, professional prevention or treatment. The key period of child height increase is afraid of parents blind superstition, resulting in children miss the best treatment period, regret is too late.