According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 30 million people with dwarfism in China due to various reasons, and the number is increasing at a rate of 161,000 per year. And there are nearly 100 million people who are more than 10 cm below the average height of dwarfism. At present, more and more people are aware of the importance of scientific treatment of short stature and choose to go to regular hospitals for standardized examination and treatment, but there are also some people who believe in various TV and newspaper “health care products for height increase”, resulting in delayed treatment, leading to epiphysis closure, wasting money and causing lifelong regrets to children. This fully illustrates that the majority of the people are still very lack of correct knowledge of height increase.
The growth of the human body is a complex physiological process, and height is determined by genetic, nutritional and endocrine factors. If your child is short in stature, you should consult an endocrinologist or a dwarf specialist as soon as possible and undergo the necessary tests. Under the current medical condition, with the rapid development of domestic biogenetic level, especially the clinical application and popularity of growth hormone, most of the short stature can be restored to normal height with proper timing and scientific treatment.
Genetic factors determine the growth potential of children, and the full play of this potential depends on various environmental factors. In other words, people with hereditary dwarfism should not lose confidence, scientific nutrition, adequate sleep, and insist on aerobic exercise (moderate intensity, regular, continuous, not less than 20 minutes each time, outdoors as much as possible), and your height will exceed the genetic height. At the same time, there may be some kind of genetic-related disease in the family of hereditary dwarfism, which may have been effectively treated with the development of modern medicine.
Nutritional dwarfism (which is very rare nowadays) can grow to normal height naturally after adjusting nutrition and consuming enough calories, and there is no need to take any “height enhancement drugs”. Endocrine factors play a regulatory role in the process of growth and development. Common endocrine growth abnormalities include growth hormone deficiency and thyroid hormone deficiency. This type of dwarfism should be treated as early as possible and growth hormone or thyroxine should be applied under the guidance of a doctor.
Precocious puberty can cause excessive secretion of sex hormones in advance, causing premature epiphyseal closure, resulting in a height of less than 145~150 cm in adulthood. When secondary sexual characteristics appear in girls <8 years old and boys <9 years old, it is necessary to find a pediatric endocrinologist to do the corresponding examination as early as possible and apply gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues to inhibit the premature secretion of sex hormones if necessary to avoid early development. There is also somatic dwarfism, this kind of children have delayed skeletal maturity, family members have similar growth pattern, and they can reach normal height in the future without treatment. However, it is best for such children to have their bone age checked regularly, because children nowadays generally develop earlier than previous generations, and the age of stopping growth is correspondingly earlier. Many parents have the idea that “children have early growth and late growth”, but this situation is limited to physical dwarfism. If your child is found to be below the height of his or her peers, you may lose the opportunity to treat him or her if you do not check and treat him or her in a timely manner and only find out that your child is short after he or she stops growing. There are also some patients with dwarfism who, although they are already adults in terms of age, or even over 20 years old, have childish faces and immature sexual development, and their bone age is often only in their early teens, yet they still have the opportunity to increase their height through proper treatment. Since exercise and sleep can stimulate the secretion of growth hormone, it is necessary to increase exercise and ensure sufficient sleep to grow taller. As for food, dairy products and eggs are the best foods for growth because they contain all kinds of nutrients. While cola drinks, foreign fast food, etc. may have certain adverse effects. Certain drugs such as: quinolone antibacterial drugs (such as: norfloxacin), adrenal corticosteroids, sex hormones, etc. are not conducive to growth.