Dwarfism is defined as a child whose height is less than two standard deviations (-2SD, the standard line is called SD) of the average height of children of the same sex, age, and race, or whose growth rate is less than 5 cm per year. Simply put, if parents find that their child is the shortest child of the same sex in the class, or has an annual growth rate of less than 5 cm, they should consider that their child may have a growth disorder. When the child matures and the epiphysis closes, the height stops growing and no further methods can make the child continue to grow taller. As the best time to treat the child is missed, many parents have to regret for life.
This requires parents to pay close attention to their children’s growth and detect the signs of slow growth in time: 1. Children’s growth rate is less than 7 cm/year before the age of 3.
2. Less than 5 cm/year from age 3 to puberty.
3, puberty is less than 6 cm / year .
Some parents think that their children are not growing is “late growth”, so they blindly wait, and as a result, their children miss the best treatment period. Some parents do not take their children to the examination, think that the child’s slow growth is not enough nutrition, arbitrarily use health care products. Unbeknownst to them, some health supplements can cause the epiphysis to close early, which can reduce the final height of the child. In fact, with the development of medicine, childhood dwarfism can be treated.