If your child’s height growth is less than 3 cm every six months before puberty and less than 5 cm every six months during puberty, and if your child’s height is significantly lower than that of children of the same age, your child may be suffering from dwarfism and needs to be seen by a regular hospital in a timely manner.
If you find that your child is short, you should seek medical attention in a timely manner and not be confined by the traditional concept of “late growth”, which delays your child’s treatment. “Once a child’s epiphysis closes, he or she loses the chance to grow taller. Parents should try not to make blind judgments as to whether or not the growth is late from science. Many parents wait until their children are adolescents or later to seek medical attention, but it is already too late. “Nowadays, the standard of living has improved, and children’s nutrition has kept up, but why are they still short?
There are many causes of dwarfism, such as growth hormone deficiency, idiopathic dwarfism, small for gestational age, and chronic renal insufficiency. In addition to the abuse of estrogen in food and environmental pollution, precocious puberty has become an important disease that causes short stature in adults, and the incidence is increasing year by year. There are 11 types of dwarfism that can be treated with growth hormone approved in the United States, which shows the complexity of the causes of dwarfism.