A male, 7 years and 6 months old, with a height of 116.4 cm, was seen in the Department of Child Health for dwarfism at the age of 5 years and 6 months. The child had a childish face, fine skin, thin hair, poor appetite and inactivity. Her height was measured at 96 cm, which was 2 standard deviations below the average height of normal healthy children of the same age and gender. In order to investigate the cause, a series of examinations were done for him. The above findings confirm that this is a child with growth hormone deficiency. Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a growth disorder caused by partial or complete deficiency of growth hormone (GH) synthesis and secretion in the anterior pituitary gland, or by structural abnormalities or receptor defects, etc. The height of GHD is below the third percentile of the growth curve of normal healthy children of the same age and sex or below two standard deviations, which meets the criteria of short stature. The prevalence is about 20/100,000 -25/100,000. The child started to receive standardized treatment with growth hormone at the age of 6 years, when he was 97cm tall, 112cm tall 1 year later, and 116.4cm tall at the age of 7 years and 6 months, which is 19.4cm taller than the previous height growth of one and a half years. Parents of children with short stature are reminded that they should avoid the following misconceptions when their children are found to be short: 1. Blindly listening to advertised height increasing products: regardless of the treatment mechanism At any cost, try them (most of the advertised products have the undesirable effect of causing early epiphyseal closure). As a result, when the effect is not good when the party to find a specialist consultation, at this time may have lost the best time for treatment.
2, blind consultation: listening to the propaganda of the heightening clinics in informal hospitals, resulting in misdiagnosis or wrong medication, delaying the growth of the child, and even adverse consequences, which is a waste of time and a lot of money, regretting too late.
3, wait: some parents think: “children have early growth late growth, 23 also scampered a scamper”, the child is short is not anxious, when found that the child really does not grow, and then go to the hospital is too late, the child may have epiphysis closed, losing the time to grow taller.
Physical exercise can strengthen the body’s metabolic process, accelerate blood circulation, promote the secretion of growth hormone, accelerate the growth of bone tissue, thus benefiting the human body to grow taller. Encouraging children to jump is a positive factor in promoting long body, which can maximize the physiological effect of height.