As a semester of intense study is coming to an end, with the winter holidays approaching, many parents will be seeking medical help for their children’s height problems. For this reason, parents are reminded that short stature is not only a pathology, but also a complex cause, and early treatment of the cause can only receive good results.
What factors can affect height growth?
1.Impaired pituitary function and insufficient secretion of growth hormone, this kind of short stature accounts for about 20% of patients with short stature.
2. 70% of the growth of children’s height is determined by genetics, 30% is influenced by environmental factors, genetic factors determine the potential of height growth, and environmental factors determine the reality of height growth. For children whose parents are shorter in height, however, should strengthen the monitoring and guidance of growth and development in order to maximize the growth potential.
3, psychological factors are also the main factors of growth, a happy mood can promote the secretion of growth hormone.
4, good living habits, balanced diet, proper exercise are favorable factors affecting height growth, the lack of trace elements is currently the main nutritional problems affecting the growth of children, regular checkups, targeted supplementation, not arbitrary supplementation.
5, early growth or precocious sexual maturity of children’s final height is often not ideal. Precocious puberty refers to the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics (such as breast development) before the age of 8 for girls (before the age of 9 for boys) and the onset of menstruation before the age of 10. The large amount of sex hormones in children with precocious puberty promotes premature epiphyseal fusion and stops growth early.
How can I tell how fast my child is growing and whether he or she is short?
If you monitor your child’s growth once a year, you can initially conclude that your child’s growth rate is slowing down or that he or she is short.
1. The child grows less than 7 cm per year during infancy (within 3 years old); 2. The child grows less than 5 cm per year during childhood (from 3 years old to adolescence); 3. Standardized height measurement by professional institutions and comparison with the latest domestic standards, if the height is lower than the third percentile of normal children of the same sex and age, the child is considered short.
Timing of treatment for children with short stature is important Regular growth and development monitoring at child health clinics is the best way to detect early deviations from normal physical growth and psychological development in children. If your child is growing slowly or short, first of all, you should go to a regular hospital child health care or dwarf clinic for examination to find out the cause, treat the cause and give timely intervention so as to catch up with the growth as soon as possible. Neither should you take random height increasing drugs when you are sick, nor should you blindly wait for the type that is late growing (experienced doctors will help you to make a judgment), so as not to affect the final height due to misdiagnosis and mistreatment or negative waiting. The best time to treat before puberty, after puberty growth potential has been very limited, once the epiphysis closed, height will stop growing, will cause lifelong regret.