Many parents see that their children are shorter than their peers, but blindly think that they are "late and long", thinking that it will be good to "grow up" in two years, so they do not pay attention to it. However, after two years, the height gap between the child and the same age is getting bigger and bigger, and then rush to the hospital to seek medical treatment, missing the child's golden growth period; even some parents arbitrarily give the child a height increase medicine, the child not only did not grow tall, but also caused a lot of side effects, seriously hurt the child's health!
To distinguish between late growing and short stature, we must first have a simple understanding of late growth and short stature.
First, the evening is long
Late growth is a type of normal growth, but it is hereditary, which means that children will grow later than children of the same age during sexual maturity and into puberty. Usually children of the same age grow rapidly during puberty, while children who grow up late gradually begin to enter the growth period after the children of the same age have completed the period of rapid growth and development, but the final height and ordinary people will not be abnormal.
Second, short stature
Short stature is that after the emergence of the child's secondary sexual characteristics, the figure will be significantly shorter than that of children of the same age, and it will not grow well in the later stage, and the adult will be significantly shorter than ordinary people, and the height will be lower than the 3rd percentile of the height of normal healthy children of the same race, age and sex, or less than 2 standard deviations (-2sd). This is typical of short stature.
The value of your child's normal height
Children in the growth period, each year the value of height has a fixed range, parents can refer to the child's height value table, to see whether it is late or short, the child after the age of three, the annual height increase of 5-7 cm, if the growth is less than this value, indicating that the child's growth rate is slow, it may be short stature.
How not to delay the timing of treatment
Parents should regularly test their children's height, and children of the same age to compare, and then compare with the height of the previous year, so as to understand the child's growth rate, children can generally grow 5-7 cm tall every year, if the growth rate is normal, the bones are within the normal range, short children can continue to observe, and do not have to be treated immediately, if the growth rate is not normal, parents have always thought that the child is late and long, and it is likely to miss the best treatment time when the check is out, I will regret it.
To this end, it is recommended that parents should let the specialist doctor judge whether the child is "late" or really "short" early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment, so as not to miss the best period of treatment. Preschool and primary school are the best age to intervene in short stature.
Once the child is suspected of being short, it is recommended to go to the short specialist of the regular large hospital as soon as possible for examination, find out the cause, symptomatic treatment, follow the doctor's advice, do not listen to various advertisements, and blindly buy the increased products on the market. Generally speaking, after 3 months of treatment, if the height can grow by more than 1.5 cm, it proves that the treatment is effective, and it is necessary to continue to adhere to it, and it can grow up to 18 cm a year.