Post-visit considerations for patients with precocious puberty or dwarfism

  1. Height measurement Whether you are a patient with dwarfism or precocious puberty, it is necessary to measure your height every month after treatment. Since the height change in a month is small after all, you need to measure it as accurately as possible. If you measure at home, you can put a piece of paper on the wall and draw a line on the paper after each measurement. It is not necessary to measure the specific height of each measurement, but only to distinguish the difference from the previous month. After a longer treatment time, the growth rate of several months can be used to average (Note: usually do not measure height too often, generally once a month to measure, otherwise it is easy to cause psychological pressure on the child, too much psychological pressure, not conducive to growth).  2, proper control of diet Avoid excess nutrition, especially avoid fatty foods, eat less sweets, but to ensure the intake of protein, should eat more vegetables and fruits. For children with pseudo-precocious puberty caused by misuse of contraceptive pills, do not eat nutritious food and tonic products that may contain sex hormones, and do not use skin care products that contain sex hormones; meanwhile, parents should put the drugs at home in a safe place out of reach of children.  3.Increase physical activity Especially, you should strengthen the exercise of lower limbs, and ensure more than 30 minutes of exercise time every day. You can choose to run, climb the stairs, jump rope, jump rubber band and other sports. At first, you can do some activities within your reach, gradually, gradually increase the amount of exercise and exercise intensity and persistently, so as not to lose confidence due to excessive fatigue. Exercise of the lower limbs can stimulate the cell division and proliferation of the epiphyseal growth plate of the long bones and promote growth. In addition, sports and exercise to regulate weight, change the body components, increase muscle mass and reduce fat content have a very positive effect.  4.Ensure sufficient sleep 8 hours of high quality sleep every night to ensure that the pituitary gland can secrete sufficient amount of growth hormone at night, which has a very important role in promoting rapid growth of height.  5, the use of growth hormone depends on the bone age The key to whether a patient can use growth hormone to promote growth treatment depends on the bone age. Whether the epiphysis is closed or not is the most important indicator to decide whether growth hormone can be used. Theoretically, as long as the epiphysis is not closed, there is still a chance to use growth hormone therapy.