Growth and development is an important feature of childhood, and children's height is the main indicator of growth and development. Height is also one of the indicators of children's health status; if the child's height growth is slow, there may also be some diseases and health problems, which should be paid attention to early.
So now let's talk about the symptom of short stature:
Short stature is when a child's height is two standard deviations below the average height of children of the same sex, age, race, or below the third percentile.
There are many reasons for short stature, which can be roughly divided into the following six categories:
Endocrine short stature: Such diseases are mainly caused by abnormal endocrine hormone secretion, including insufficient growth hormone secretion, hypothyroidism, precocious puberty, adrenal hyperplasia, etc.
Skeletal development disorders: all kinds of osteogenic and cartilage incompleteness.
Nutritional and metabolic disorders are short: suffering from chronic diseases, nutritional disorders, mucopolysaccharides, etc.
Psychosocial shortness: Also known as psychological shortness. Lack of family warmth, lack of parental love, excessive pressure, etc.
Short stature with chromosomal abnormalities: such as congenital stupidity syndrome, congenital ovarian hypoplasia syndrome, etc.
Other causes of short stature include familial short stature, idiopathic short stature, and constitutional delayed puberty.
And there are many causes of short stature, including genetic factors, physical factors, nutritional factors, systemic diseases of the whole body, and psychosocial problems.
1. Genetic factors: familial shortness.
2. Physical factors: constitutional growth and delayed puberty.
3. Nutritional factors: children's spleen and stomach are weak and indigestion, which can lead to malnutrition and slow development.
4. Endocrine diseases: including growth hormone deficiency, hypothyroidism, precocious puberty, diabetes, etc.
5. Systemic diseases of the whole body: chronic systemic diseases.
6. Intrauterine growth retardation: small-for-gestational-age infants, etc.
Baby is low, how to grow fast?
Let's give you a few tricks now. First of all, we must put an end to the bad problem of picky eating, eat more protein-rich foods, such as fish, lean meat, soy products, milk, etc., and foods containing calcium and phosphorus can not be less, such as milk, ribs, kelp, etc.
At the same time, it is also necessary to ensure adequate sleep, and late sleep will affect the normal secretion of growth hormone. Therefore, your baby should go to sleep before 10 p.m. And get enough sleep every day.
Proper physical activity can also help your baby's growth and development, such as swimming, dancing, and badminton.
With the height of the baby, the parents should also try to create a harmonious and warm family environment.
However, it should be noted that because the baby is short enough to eat a lot of supplements, it will be detrimental to the baby's development.
In addition to the physiological shortness in the front, each year a number of babies are diagnosed with short stature or growth hormone deficiency, and these babies are generally below the 3rd percentile or two standard deviations of the height standard for normal children of the same age and same sex.
Slowing growth rates are often a precursor to the disease. If the baby's length at birth is less than 47 cm, the annual growth before the age of 3 is less than 7 cm, the annual growth from 3 to puberty is less than 5 cm, or the annual growth of puberty is less than 6 cm, it is considered that the growth rate is slowed down, and parents need to consult a pediatric endocrinologist for diagnosis and treatment.
For the symptom of short stature, there must be many misunderstandings, let me tell you about it:
1. Indiscriminately supplementing and increasing high products is harmful and beneficial
Now parents for children to increase investment can be described as regardless of the cost, there are a lot of increased drugs on the market is actually just health care products, the main ingredient is only some calcium, iron and zinc amino acids and other things, which is from the good side; there are some heightened products even contain ingredients that are not conducive to the growth of children, such as hormones. Taking these products may see the child's height grow a little faster in the short term, but it accelerates the closure of the child's epiphyseum, but instead makes the child's height set early, resulting in a short stature.
2. Calcium supplementation is not related to height growth
We all know that calcium is an important component of bones, so many parents think that more calcium supplementation will promote children to grow taller, and the main ingredient of some "height-increasing drugs" is calcium. In fact, calcium supplementation and height increase are two different things. In order to make the child grow taller, simply eating calcium tablets is generally not of much use, usually in the sense of calcium supplementation, is to timely supplement the calcium lost in the body to maintain bone density. Calcium, as a constituent part of the bone, can not affect the speed of growth and development, nor can it affect the length and growth of the bones, and excessive calcium intake, but easy to lead to constipation and other undesirable phenomena, affecting the growth of height.
3. Simple zinc supplementation will not help to increase the height
Zinc deficiency can reduce the secretion of growth hormone, resulting in delayed growth and development. But even if parents pay attention to zinc supplementation for their children, they still have little effect on height, why is this? Growth retardation caused by simple zinc deficiency is now relatively rare, on the one hand, children under a normal diet are not deficient in zinc; on the other hand, some children are deficient in zinc, but it is not the only reason for their short stature. Parents should clearly understand that zinc does not directly promote growth, and zinc poisoning will occur when they supplement their children.
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