Your child short it?

Increasing growth and development of children by parents, medical personnel and the general attention, Child Health Department of our hospital are often exposed to short stature patients, found that a considerable part of children have missed out on the best height growth, growth potential is very low.

Which many parents are "children have a long night long morning," the ideas. Height in children less than their peers did not go to hospital for examination, gullible ads, blind dietary calcium intake, increased drug, use whatever elevator shoes, etc. increased. In fact, when children will stop growing after skeletal maturity, and you eventually find yourself short of children, but the epiphysis is closed at this time, bone has been able to grow, resulting in the loss of a child the opportunity to grow taller.

So, how to determine whether their children are small it? Usually lower than normal height peers, the average height of the same sex 2 to 3 standard deviations, height growth rate of 4-5 centimeters per year less than is called short stature. Height growth of affected children and genetic factors, endocrine, nutrition, exercise, sleep on, children of different ages have different standards and the standard deviation of height (see table)

Short stature can be treated, but it must take time. Therefore, parents of children with short stature should love them and treat them early, health, long high.