While facing the pressure of the secondary school exams soon, Xiaoqin, a girl, 16 years old, is now also in her junior high school, but this little girl still suffers from the pain that most children do not. Her height has barely changed since she was 10 years old, and she has been plagued by short stature for six years. Since she was about 5 years old, she has been slower than her peers, sitting in the first row of her class and standing first in line in gym class, but her height is not very noticeable compared to her peers. By the time she was 10 years old, she was the shortest child in the same class at the same age. At this time, Xiaoqin was very sensitive about her short height, and the children around her always made fun of her, which had a great impact on Xiaoqin’s psychology. Xiaoqin began to ask her father to take her to the hospital to see her short stature. She went to the local county hospital and the big hospital in the city, but the doctor only gave her a general physical examination, and the results were normal. As he grew older, Xiaoqin’s hopes for growing taller became stronger and he cried to his father again and again. Xiaoqin’s father was even more anxious, as other children were growing day by day, but his own child had not been growing and had not been to the hospital much, but he had found out what was wrong. The biggest worry was that he didn’t know if his child could grow any taller. Xiaoqin’s father mobilized all his relatives and friends to help inquire about where to treat dwarfism, but he could not find any. Finally they chose to turn to Wuhu Life Channel, hoping to find a way to help their child grow taller through the power of the media.
The average height of a normal 16-year-old girl should be 160.1cm, while the value of dwarfism is 149.8cm, which means that Xiaoqin is 23cm shorter than her peers. After a series of tests, she was finally diagnosed as a child with complete growth hormone deficiency. At this time, Xiaoqin smiled happily.
What happened to Xiaoqin was heartbreaking, but fortunately, there is a chance for treatment. There are very few children like Xiaoqin who are 16 years old and have a bone age of only about 12.5 weeks old. Generally, the bone age of boys reaches 16 weeks old and the bone age of girls reaches 14 weeks old, which is close to closing, so there is little hope for growth.
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Parents are advised that the prevalence of children with short stature is as high as three percent, and if the first three of a hundred children stand in line, they are likely to be short, so it is worth parents’ attention. The best time to treat dwarfism is from 4-5 years old to early adolescence. The earlier the diagnosis and treatment, the greater the hope for the child to catch up with children of the same age and the less the cost. Once a child is found to be short in stature, early diagnosis and treatment should be carried out.