Early intervention for short children As a mother, do you know if your child’s height is within the normal range? Do you know how much your baby should grow each year from birth to adolescence to be considered normal? What should we do to take care of our children in order to make them grow healthily? The final height of human body is inseparable from genetic, environmental, nutritional, exercise, sleep and psychosocial factors, but if your child is still sitting in the first three rows of the class because of short head after one summer vacation, and the growth rate is less than 5 cm per year, and the gap with children of the same age is gradually widening, you should pay more attention to it and take your child to a pediatric endocrinologist for consultation and examination as early as possible. Pay attention to the signs of slow growth in children There is a pattern of growth in children, with the fastest growth rate during puberty. After puberty, the bones mature, the epiphysis closes, and the child’s height stops growing, so no method can make the child grow taller. As the best time to treat the child is missed, many parents have to regret for life. This requires parents to pay close attention to their children’s growth and to detect the signs of slow growth in time. The growth rate of children is less than 7 cm/year until age 3 ● Less than 5 cm/year from age 3 to puberty ● Less than 6 cm/year at puberty In fact, with the development of medicine, childhood dwarfism is treatable. Through growth hormone replacement therapy, many children with dwarfism can experience rapid catch-up growth and reach a more desirable height.