How to treat children short

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Generally speaking, if the height of patients of the same gender, race and age is lower than the average height of normal people by more than two standard deviations or less than the third percentile in a similar environment, they can be diagnosed as dwarfism. Some of them are due to the lack of growth hormone or insufficient secretion, resulting in the height can not grow normally. If they do not carry out the treatment, they can be diagnosed as dwarfism Growth hormone replacement therapy, the final height can only reach about 130 cm. So, what are the drugs and methods for treating children's short stature?

How to treat children short

First: Children's short body will generally cause relative harm, children will be introverted and emotional instability, inferiority complex, lack of self-esteem, their emotions are easily affected by the internal and external environment and produce changes, poor communication and social withdrawal, and in the collective life and social skills are obviously behind the normal children, there is a phenomenon of self closure. For the future employment choice is also a certain problem.

Second: for the treatment of children can take surgical treatment, using the method of breaking epiphysis, surgery to change the structure of epiphysis, expand the space of bone cells. Hormone therapy can also be used to promote the growth of bone cells. Most children with short stature will take hormone therapy, but hormone therapy is also a long process, we must adhere to and strengthen their own exercise.

Third: children with short stature can also use accurate bone age assessment technology, rapid hormone detection, gene immune activation, traditional Chinese medicine conditioning, targeted tissue regulation, aromatase inhibitor, GABA supplement, which are common methods for the treatment of short stature.

matters needing attention

In patients with short stature, if the cartilage development is abnormal, it is mainly due to vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency, resulting in the imbalance of calcium and phosphorus metabolism in the body, thereby affecting bone development. Supplementation of cod liver oil, calcium, sun exposure and vitamin D or active D3 is effective.