Height has a huge impact on a person’s life, and is an important factor in determining people’s future destiny and quality of life. The height of children is also one of the most important concerns of parents, and parents have been trying their best to help their children grow taller. However, for a long time, there are some misconceptions about the treatment of dwarfism. So, how to help your child reach the ideal height? What are the scientific methods to increase height? We would like to make a brief introduction for you.
What is dwarfism?
Dwarfism refers to a child whose height is less than 2 standard deviations from the average height of children of the same sex, age and race, and whose growth rate is less than 5 cm per year. Simply put, parents who find that their child is the shortest child of the same gender in the class or has an annual growth height of less than 5 cm should consider that their child may have a growth disorder. A child’s genetic height can be roughly determined according to the following formula, which is equal to the average height of the parents plus 6.5 cm for boys and the average height of the parents minus 6.5 cm for girls.
Signs of slow growth There is a pattern of growth and development in children, with the fastest growth rate during puberty. After puberty, the bones mature and the epiphysis closes, the height stops growing and no further methods can make the child 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 to detect the signs of slow growth: 1. always shorter than the classmates by half a head. less than 7 cm/year of height growth before the age of 3. Less than 5 cm/year from age 3 to puberty. Adolescence is less than 6 cm/year.
2.The growth is slow, and a pair of pants is worn for two or three years.
3, according to the formula for calculating the average height of children aged 2 to 10 years The average height of boys (cm) = age × 5 + 80 (cm) The average height of girls (cm) = age × 7 + 70 (cm) If the height is 5 to 10 cm lower than the average height, it is short.