What is short stature in children? How can I tell if my child is growing normally and if he or she has short stature in children? Short stature refers to individuals of the same race, sex and age whose height is lower than the average height of the normal population by 2 standard deviations (-2SD) or lower than the 3rd percentile (-1.88SD) in a similar living environment. How to determine whether your child’s growth and development is normal 1. You need to refer to the “national height growth chart (or height standard deviation chart)” and compare your child’s height after measuring it correctly to see whether your child’s height is below -2SD or the 3rd percentile. 2.If the child’s height is lower than the above standard, it is also necessary to go to the regular hospital to do the skeletal maturity measurement (bone age) for the child, if the bone age is not backward (bone age is less than 1 year old or more), or backward more than 2 years are highly suspected that the child is short stature. 3. The diagnosis of short stature also requires a series of physical examination, laboratory examination and special examination, and parents should bring their children to the pediatric endocrinology, endocrinology, pediatrics and pediatric insurance department of regular hospitals. What are the hazards of short stature in children? 1. Psychological: Due to the difference between themselves and the surrounding people, most children have the experience of being bullied, which leads to insecurity and emotional instability in most children. Long-term short stature causes about 60% of short people to have character defects such as low self-esteem, negativity, sensitivity and irritability. Some children even experience depression, with 72.92% of older children with short stature experiencing depression. Because of the long-term psychological burden is very heavy, resulting in children and parents have a gap, affecting family relations. 2.Schooling: The average education of short people is junior high school, and only 4% of them have a bachelor’s degree. 3. Job hunting: Because of their height, they are unable to engage in heavy physical labor. Only 28% of the short people have a relatively decent job with stable income, 72% rely on stalls, repairing small electrical appliances such as cell phones, odd jobs and night sales, etc. Most people who love small people can only choose to be self-employed or do some odd jobs. 4. Courtship: The adult marriage rate of short people is 20%, among which the single rate of men is much higher than that of women, and most short people cannot fall in love and get married normally. 5. Health: Because most of the short stature is caused by other system diseases, the health level of short people is much lower than normal people, and the average life expectancy of short people is also much lower than normal people, some of them only have a life expectancy of about 40 years old and some of them have no fertility. How can parents find out whether their children have abnormal growth and development in time so that they can go to the pediatric endocrinology, endocrinology, pediatrics and pediatric insurance departments of regular hospitals? The following methods are provided for parents to make a rough judgment: 1, comparison method: the child’s height in the class or among friends (the same age group) has been the last 3-5. 2.Growth rate method: The child’s height growth is less than 5cm per year in the past 1-2 years. 3.Observation method: The child has not grown taller in the past 1 year or so, resulting in the need to buy clothes again. If you encounter the above situation, please go to the regular hospital for further examination to clarify whether your child has short stature.