If you find that your child’s height is lower than that of children of the same age, you should go to a regular hospital for examination to determine whether it is short. In addition, now the market is full of various kinds of drugs or instruments for growth, choose to polish your eyes.
1. Height measurement and medical history: When measuring height, pay attention to taking off shoes, standing straight, relaxing, checking the normal value range in the table (the normal value range is different for different age, gender, region and ethnicity), body proportion, etc.; ask parents about their height, family situation and past disease history.
2, physical examination: including intelligence, facial appearance, examination of major organs (visual, touch, percussion and hearing), external genital examination.
3. Laboratory examinations: ① blood, urine, stool, three major routine, liver and kidney function, blood sugar if necessary; ② left wrist X-ray examination to see the bone age and epiphysis; ③ head CT or MRI examination to see the size of the pituitary gland and the presence of occupational lesions; ④ thyroid function, insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 detection; ⑤ growth hormone stimulation test (2 kinds of drug stimulation test); ⑥ chromosome examination (if necessary); ⑦ adrenal ultrasound examination (if necessary).