As he grew older, he slowly stagnated, and through diagnosis, he found that the culprit was short stature. At this time, many parents are often confused, why is my child suffering from short stature?
1, heredity, familial height is short: the child's own growth rate is normal, bone age is also normal, short stature is not serious, there is no delay in youth development, but the parents' height is short, which belongs to the family hereditary shortness.
2. Slow growth of low birth weight children: such children are born full term but weigh less than 2500 grams, also known as term samples, no family short history, no endocrine abnormalities, growth rate in the normal low value range, bone age is normal or backward. Their growth hormone provocation test was normal, but there were changes in the rhythm of growth hormone secretion.
3. Systemic diseases: such as chronic heart, liver and kidney diseases, chronic diarrhea in infancy, etc. Such babies are not seriously short, endocrine test growth hormone is not low, and after adjusting nutrition and treating diseases, height and bone age will have a chance to enter the normal range.
4. The influence of spiritual and social factors: family environment, psychological pressure, etc., also have an impact on children's height.
5. Pituitary dwarf: this is caused by growth hormone deficiency. The ratio of men and women suffering from pituitary dwarfs is about 3:1, and at the age of 2 to 4 years old, it will find obvious growth backwardness, and the growth rate is less than 4 centimeters per year, but the limbs of such babies are still relatively symmetrical, but the face is naïve and the abdominal fat accumulation is accumulated, which is a typical manifestation of this disease. In addition, bone age delay is often consistent with height age, and teething and tooth replacement are delayed, and intelligence is normal.
6. Precocious puberty: boys have secondary sexual characteristics before the age of 10 and girls before the age of 8. True precocious puberty is accompanied by accelerated growth and accelerated bone age. True precocious puberty refers to the early appearance of puberty and premature maturation of sexual function. Girls develop breast enlargement, axillary and pubic hair, menstruation, and may have ovulation before 8 years, with fertility. Boys have enlarged testicles before the age of 10, have sperm production, have enlarged penises, and often have erections, and rarely have sperm retention. Children with true precocious puberty begin to have a higher body than children of the same age, but due to the premature closure of the bone marrow, the body is short in adulthood.
7. Nutritional imbalance: Children's growth and development need protein, fat, carbohydrates and other nutritional elements, but more than 80% of children have serious imbalances in nutritional intake. The most abundant intake of the day is fried foods, hamburgers and other foods that are rich in sugar or high calories. Imbalance in dietary structure will inevitably lead to insufficient intake of calcium, iron, zinc and other nutrients that promote children's growth and development, and over time, children will appear short and fat, stunted and stunted.
8, lack of sleep: this is easy to cause children stunted development, short stature is an important reason. Because of the lack of good rest, it will seriously inhibit the secretion of growth hormone in the child's body. 10 p.m. is the time when the child's growth hormone secretion is at its strongest, and now parents often extend the learning time at night and shorten the child's sleep time in order to improve the child's academic performance. In addition, lack of exercise is also an important cause of the increase in short stature.