In the process of a child’s growth, there is no doubt that the impact of height on his or her future should not be ignored. We use a more common phrase to describe: “tall people watch the show, short people suffer”. It means that because of their short stature, children are prone to an imbalanced development in the process of mental and physical development. Most of them lack self-confidence and are more sensitive. As they get older, they may be ridiculed by their peers during their gradual contact with society, and they may become afraid of communicating with the outside world because of the strange looks from outsiders, thus forming isolation, low self-esteem, introverted personality and inability to concentrate, social skills significantly lag behind normal children, and poor language skills. All these will lead to obstacles in choosing employment and love marriage when children become adults.
Children with dwarfism are classified into non-disease dwarfism and disease dwarfism. Non-disease dwarfism refers to genetic dwarfism and physical retardation. This is when the child should be given a good acquired environment to promote the genetic potential. The four most reliable and effective ways to promote growth are: nutrition, exercise, sleep and disease control. Adequate nutrition is the most important material basis for growing taller. Protein, calcium and zinc are important cellular components of the body, so children should ensure adequate nutrition intake from infancy onwards.
Children with disease dwarfism are known to have hundreds of diseases accompanied by dwarfism, commonly there are such as: lack of or insufficient secretion of growth hormone (if not treated early, the child’s final height as an adult is only about 1.3 meters), insufficient secretion of thyroid hormone, precocious puberty, idiopathic dwarfism, intrauterine growth retardation, abnormal bone development, and chronic renal insufficiency. Specifically, children’s height is lower than 2 standard deviations from the average height of children of the same sex, age and race, and the growth rate of infants and children under 3 years old is less than 7 cm/year, from 3 years old to puberty is less than 4-5 cm/year, and puberty is less than 5.5-6.5 cm/year. Simply put, if parents find that their child is the shortest child of the same sex in the class, or the annual growth height is less than 5 cm, they should consider that their child may have a growth disorder.
Therefore, children with dwarfism should go to the specialized endocrine clinic of a regular hospital for early treatment. After a detailed medical history, comprehensive physical examination and necessary laboratory tests, we can distinguish whether the child is short of disease or non-disease, and carry out treatment under the guidance of the doctor. When your child is short in stature, don’t wait blindly. Some short stature can be treated, but if you don’t intervene in time, once you miss the best time for diagnosis and treatment, there will be no hope for height increase, which will lead to your child eventually becoming a small child. Second, you can not blindly try all kinds of health care products to increase height. There are health care products on the market with unknown ingredients, not only can not improve the child’s height, but will promote bone age maturity, and ultimately delay the child’s treatment. So be sure to take your child to a regular hospital for consultation and treatment.