Why are children shorter than others
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the standard deviation and height percentile method for clinical medicine to judge the dwarf; the child's height is lower than the third percentile or two mark of the same age, the same sex, the same area, and the standard of the normal children of the same nationality. The quasi difference (that is, more than 5-10 centimeters below the average height). The survey of height of 70431 6-18 year old primary and middle school students in Beijing showed that the prevalence of mean short stature was 3.77%.
dwarfism is a disease
to take care of health products to "help", often the first choice for the parents of small children, but a huge economic input is a painful lesson. Dwarfism is a disease. After finding the cause of the disease, it is the root of the disease. According to the survey, 70% parents in China do not know that children's short stature may be caused by diseases. The dwarf causes are various, endocrine disease, family dwarf, institutional growth and development delay, chromosome abnormality and so on. Among them, there are some children with growth hormone deficiency, which are caused by growth hormone deficiency and short stature, which are called "pituitary dwarfism". Growth hormone injection is an effective treatment for these children.
interpretation of GH
many parents immediately give up the treatment, "growth hormone is a 'hormone', how can children use it? In fact, people usually say" hormone ", usually refers to glucocorticoid and sex irritable, parents are concerned about the use of this for children with this Hormones are also known as hormones, but growth hormone is not included in them.
growth hormone is a protein hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and consists of 191 amino acids. It is a substance that regulates the normal growth of human body from birth to adulthood, and the only hormone that makes bones grow linearly. The growth hormone used as a drug is artificially synthesized by gene recombination technology, which is exactly the same as the chemical structure of growth hormone produced by human pituitary gland. Glucocorticoid is a steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex. Sex hormones are steroid hormones secreted by gonads and adrenocortical glands. Growth hormone is completely different from glucocorticoids and sex hormones, no matter from source, chemical structure, physiology or pharmacology. Appropriate injection of growth hormone and timely follow-up visits will not produce glucocorticoid or sex hormone like effects and side effects.
4-6 years old, pay close attention to the treatment of short
no matter men and women, there is a golden dividing line for children's short stature, that is 4 years old. Around 4 years old, human growth hormone, thyroxine have basically formed, diet, sleep habits gradually formed, from the figure can see whether there are defects, these conditions play a decisive role in the growth and development of the future.
parents are advised to measure their height every 2 months. If the growth rate is too slow, they need to see the doctor in time. Domestic treatment for short stature was relatively late, and 70% of the age group was between 11 and 16 years old. The average time for treatment abroad is 6 years. The age of treatment is relatively large, and the contribution to adult height is small. Early treatment can maximize the adult height of the child. Therefore, the age of 4-6 is the ideal age for diagnosis and treatment of short stature caused by growth hormone deficiency.