Dwarfism is generally divided into two types: temporary dwarfism and pathological dwarfism.
The causes of temporary dwarfism are: 1. Psychological factors: grief pro-growth hormone secretion, slow growth.
2.Poor sleep during growth period: lower secretion of growth hormone, which affects body growth.
3, poor nutrition: insufficient protein intake.
4.Picky and partial eating: constraint to absorb calcium ion nutrition from food, insufficient calcium reserve to meet growth needs.
The prognosis of temporary dwarfism is better with timely intervention. Parents can contact me by phone if they have any questions.
The common causes of pathological dwarfism are: 1. Endocrine dwarfism: such as dwarfism caused by growth hormone deficiency, which we usually call “dwarfism”, dwarfism caused by thyroxine hormone deficiency, which is “cretinism”, and low adult height due to precocious puberty are also in this category. However, because of the early closure of bone age and early growth stop, the final height is often shorter.
2.Less than gestational age child/intrauterine growth retardation: The birth weight or length of the child is lower than the minimum standard of the same gestational age and gender due to the history of chronic diseases, medication, intrauterine hypoxia and intrauterine infection of the pregnant mother. Failure to achieve effective catch-up within six months after birth, adult height is also low.
3, chromosomal disorders: such as Turner syndrome (Turner syndrome), also known as congenital ovarian hypoplasia, is a group of sex chromosomal abnormalities caused by ovarian hypoplasia, and the appearance of female secondary sex characteristics hypoplasia or completely undeveloped and some congenital malformations of the disease. The incidence rate is 1:2500-3500, which is a common cause of dwarfism in female children.
4. Diseases of the skeletal system: such as chondrodysplasia, congenital osteogenesis imperfecta, and osteochondrosis can lead to short stature.
5. Idiopathic dwarfism (ISS): Excluding systemic diseases, bone metabolic diseases, malnutrition, endocrine diseases and other unexplained dwarfism, 60-80% of dwarfism is classified as idiopathic dwarfism. Idiopathic dwarfism includes somatic growth delay and familial dwarfism. Somatic growth delay: growth lags behind in childhood, once the height catches up with the large normal level after puberty development, parents have similar phenomenon.
The causes of pathological dwarfism are complex and must be treated symptomatically for different reasons, early detection and early treatment to achieve better treatment results. If parents have any questions about dwarfism, they can contact me at any time by telephone consultation.