It is not difficult to find those small children in the crowd, parents often do not pay enough attention to height, think that the child belongs to the late growth, did not seek medical attention in time, wait until the child no longer grows before panic to seek medical attention, often miss the best treatment time, children in the end is not late growth, in the end how to determine it?
Bone age is short for skeletal age, also called biological age, whether for late growth, bone age is a very important assessment criteria, bone age is smaller than the actual age, adult height prediction is normal, it means that the child is late growth; bone age and the actual age is comparable or large, then there is no late growth of the possibility. If the child is short or on the short side, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible to take a bone age film to evaluate the bone age so that the doctor can determine whether treatment is needed or not and delay the timing of treatment on one side. To find out the bone age of a person, an X-ray of the wrist of the person’s left hand is usually taken. The doctor determines the bone age by observing the development of the metacarpal phalanges, wrist bones and the ossification center of the lower radius and ulna of the left hand through the X-ray. It is a biological age that reflects the degree of physical development by measuring changes in the size, shape, structure and interrelationship of bones and expresses it in the form of age in years through statistical processing. So what does it mean to be short?
The term dwarfism or short stature refers to a height that is more than 2 standard deviations (-SD) lower or below the 3rd percentile than the mean height of would-be resistant children of the same race, sex, and age in a similar environment. Some of these are normal physiological variables. Growth is a basic characteristic of children, but also a mirror of their health status, in the process of pediatric growth and development, the determination of the annual growth rate is a sensitive indicator for early identification of growth disorders, the process of pediatric growth and development has continuous and uneven characteristics, generally <2 years old growth rate <7cm per year, 4.5 years old to the beginning of puberty growth rate <5cm, year, puberty growth rate <6cm/year are indicative of growth disorders. The growth rate <6cm/year indicates the presence of growth disorder, and the cause should be found in time. There are many reasons for short stature, icon analysis is as follows: Many parents have similar questions, I and my child's father are not high, the child is a little short is normal, such ideas may not be correct, I am here to introduce the calculation of genetic height, if your child's adult Shanda is less than genetic height, the child is short is not affected by genetic factors. Boy height=45.99+(father height+mother height)/2×0.78±5.29 Girl height=37.85+(father height+mother height)/2×0.75±5.29 Children are the pearl of their parents, parents don’t want their children to lose at the starting line, if your child has the above symptoms of dwarfism, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible. The younger the age, the better the treatment effect and the lower the cost of treatment.