According to a survey, 70% of parents in China do not know that their children’s short stature may be caused by diseases, and buy health products or height increasing devices to “help” their children grow. In this regard, we would like to remind parents that dwarfism is a disease, and it is fundamental to identify the cause and treat it accordingly.
There are various causes of dwarfism, including endocrine diseases, familial dwarfism, physical growth and developmental delay, chromosomal abnormalities, severe nutritional deficiencies and systemic diseases, etc. Among them, some children suffer from growth hormone deficiency, which is caused by insufficient secretion of growth hormone and short stature, and used to be called “pituitary dwarfism It used to be called “pituitary dwarfism”. For these children, treatment with recombinant human growth hormone is the only effective measure. Growth hormone is a protein hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, which is essential for regulating the normal growth and metabolism of the human body from birth to adulthood, and is also the most important hormone for promoting the linear growth of bones.
Special reminder that parents should pay attention to their children’s height and weight from the time of birth. The growth rate varies from period to period, and parents are advised to measure and record their child’s height every three months. If a child grows less than 7 cm per year as an infant under the age of three, less than 5 cm per year between the age of three and pre-puberty, or less than 6 cm per year during puberty, it may indicate that the child has a growth retardation problem; if secondary sexual characteristics appear in girls at 8 weeks of age and in boys at 9 weeks of age, and the growth rate If a girl develops secondary sexual characteristics at the age of 8 and a boy at the age of 9, and the growth rate accelerates abnormally, the child may be at risk of premature maturity.