How long can your child wear a pair of pants?
Can you tell your child’s height accurately?
How often do you measure your child’s height?
If you can’t answer these questions, then maybe you are not paying enough attention to your child’s height.
How to tell if your child is short How to know if your child has dwarfism? The easiest way to tell if your child has dwarfism is to observe a pair of pants that can be worn for two or three years. If your child does not need to change his pants for two or three years, beware of your child suffering from dwarfism.
At present, the standard deviation method is generally used clinically to determine short stature, which means that a child is diagnosed with dwarfism if his or her height is two standard deviations below the height standard of a normal child of the same age, sex, region and race. Slowed growth rate is often one of the early signs of childhood diseases.
There are many causes of poor growth in children and short stature in adults, including growth hormone deficiency, hypothyroidism, precocious puberty, as well as children younger than gestational age, idiopathic dwarfism, systemic diseases, somatic growth and delayed puberty can all lead to short stature and should be treated by a medical professional.
Many parents don’t pay attention to it According to the estimation, there are about 20,000 dwarf children under 15 years old in Lanzhou City, and the treatment rate is less than 1%.
A common misconception among patients who come to the clinic is that they are blindly optimistic about their children’s growth retardation, believing that their children are just “late growing”. Xiao Ling (pseudonym) is one of the representative cases. Xiao Ling grew up slower than other children her age, and her parents thought she would grow when she was older. However, she did not grow until she was 17 years old, and there was no breast development or menstruation. She was diagnosed with pituitary dysplasia and growth hormone deficiency at the hospital. Fortunately, Xiao Ling’s bone age was only 10 years old at the time of discovery, and after treatment, her height grew by nearly 20 cm.
According to a sample survey, the prevalence of childhood dwarfism in China is about 3%. According to statistics, only 20% of parents often ask about their children’s height and conduct tests and records; more than 75% of parents cannot provide their children’s current accurate height; more than 80% of parents cannot provide their children’s height a year ago; 97% of parents do not know the basic rules of their children’s growth and development; 60% of parents do not know the results of their children’s physical examinations or do not take them seriously; 30% of parents are blindly optimistic when their children’s growth is delayed. Blind optimism, clinging to the “late growth” of the old concept; 65% of parents in the child’s height is short, consider the use of height-enhancing health products, and even blindly into the supplement.
Experts suggest that parents observe their children’s height when they are 0-3 years old. Measure your child’s height once every 3 months. If you are always in the top three in the class line, or 5-10 cm shorter than children of the same age, promptly take your child to a regular hospital specialist clinic for medical attention.
Seize the best treatment period Experts say that the best treatment period for dwarfism is from 3 to 12 years old. Growth hormone supplementation is an effective treatment for dwarfism.
Generally speaking, when the bone age of girls exceeds 14 years old and that of boys exceeds 16 years old, the epiphysis is close to closing and there is basically no chance of growing taller. Therefore, the earlier the epiphyseal closure is understood and the earlier the intervention is made, the more likely the patient will grow taller. To achieve this, early detection, early treatment and adherence to systematic therapy are necessary.