1. Definition of short stature: annual growth rate is less than 4-5 cm, height is lower than the same race. Same age. Children of the same age and sex with two standard deviations (-2SD); or below the 3rd percentile of the growth curve are considered to be short in stature.
Short stature not only affects the adult height, but also causes harm to the child’s psychological health, often with retreat. Low self-esteem. Their social adaptability is also much lower than that of children of the same age, and it has an important impact on the quality of life of children in their future career choice and marriage. For the sake of children’s health, it is wise for parents of children with short stature to take their children to a regular hospital as soon as possible.
If you find that your child is short in stature, please don’t panic and choose a professional pediatric dwarf clinic in a regular hospital for treatment, don’t use medicine indiscriminately.
4.Don’t blindly listen to the advertisement: try the advertised height increase products regardless of the treatment mechanism and efficacy, and find a specialist for treatment when the effect is not good, which may have serious consequences of early epiphyseal closure and lose the best treatment time.
5, do not blindly consult: listen to the propaganda of informal hospitals, resulting in misdiagnosis or wrong medication, delaying the growth of the child, and even adverse consequences, both time-consuming and costly, regretting too late.
6, do not wait: some parents think that “children have early growth and late growth, 23 also scampered a scamper” is not anxious about the short child, when found that the child really does not grow before taking it to the hospital to see, at this time the child epiphysis may have closed, losing the opportunity to treat.