Health online ｜ Why do children look short?Huaxi expert: in addition to heredity, there may be these reasons

Cover Journalist Ning Zhi

"Every summer vacation, there are so many children who come to the doctor. A clinic can be visited by 50 patients." Said the deputy chief physician of the Pediatrics of the Pediatrics of the Second Hospital of Huaxi University of Sichuan University, most of the children from the outpatient clinic came to see growth and development, such as long Short, fat, and develop early.

Among them, children with short figures are particularly concerned. Dr. Sun reminded parents that for children with abnormal growth and development, dynamic monitoring height and bone age is very important. When you find that the child has a height problem, it is recommended to go to the hospital's specialist outpatient assessment in time to find the reasons for the short body or slow growth rate, so as to adopt scientific intervention Measures to avoid missing the best treatment time.

So, what are the reasons for the short body? Dr. Sun Dr. Sun pointed out that short figures are not only related to factors such as heredity, nutrition, sleep, and exercise, but also caused by diseases, such as thyroid dysfunction, growth hormone deficiency, Turner syndrome, and some chronic diseases.

Dr. Sun, Dr. Sun, summarized the parents, and invested the reason that mainly affects the height of the child.

Sun Xiaomei, a pediatrician of Huaxi Second Hospital of Sichuan University

The first category, normal growth mutation

(1) The family is short: one person or his family has one or more height in his family (male <160cm, female <150cm).

(2) Physical growth and adolescent delay: The "late length" of popular theory, parents can have a history of adolescent development delay.

(3) Smaller than fetal age: The length and weight of their birth at birth are not up to standard. They have not been caught up in 2 years after birth and have always been shorter than their children.

The second category, endocrine system disease (2 types of 2 types)

(1) Thyroid dysfunction.

Low A can cause children's intellectual development and backward physical development. There are often performance such as short stature, bloating, constipation, fear of cold, and inattention. For children with dwarf figures, general testing of thyroid function.

(2) growth hormone deficiency.

Failure the following standards to diagnose growth hormone deficiency: ① short body; ② slower growth rate; ③ proportion of body and naive face; ④ normal intellectual development; ⑤ bone age lags behind age; ⑥ growth hormone stimulation test prompt growth hormone peak reduction; ⑦ The level of serum insulin -like growth factor is lower than normal. For children who have been diagnosed with the deficiency of growth hormones, the headic nuclear magnetic examination is also needed to clarify whether there is a organic lesion in the intracranial. For example, brain trauma, pituitary tumor, and pituitary handle blocking syndrome may have insufficient growth hormone secretion.

The third category, chronic systemic disease

(1) For example, chronic kidney disease, congenital heart disease, etc.

(2) Respiratory diseases such as allergic rhinitis and adenoid hypertrophy can cause children to sleep well for a long time, snore, and open their mouths at night to breathe, which affects height.

The fourth category, genetic disease (2 types)

(1) Chromosomal abnormalities, such as Turner syndrome.

(2) Skeletal dysplasia, such as cartilage dysplasia.

Fifth category, specialty short figure

At present, there are no meticulous diseases in existing medical methods. Maybe with the development of medicine, the cause can be excavated in the future.

There are many reasons that affect your height. Dr. Sun, Dr. Sun, suggested that after 3 years of age, monitoring height and weight, dynamic detection growth rate is the most important.

Parents can remember the standards of "7, 5, 6": before 3 years old, the annual growth rate is less than 7 cm; the annual growth rate is less than 5 cm before the adolescence of 3 to adolescence; This growth rate is slowing down. For children with short or slow growth, it is recommended to go to the pediatric outpatient assessment on a regular basis.

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