What symptom does child short stature have?

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There are more and more patients with dwarfism. Many children suffer from this kind of disease. When children suffer from this kind of disease, they should go to the hospital for treatment in time. There are many causes of this disease, mainly because of children's bone hypoplasia. Let's take a look at the common symptoms of dwarfism!

What symptom does child short stature have?

Achondroplasia is the most common congenital dwarfism, which is a developmental abnormality with defects of chondrogenic bone and normal membranous bone; More than 80% of the cases were sporadic; At birth, the physical signs were very obvious, especially in dwarfism. The typical cases were asymmetrical, mainly short limbs, especially the upper arm and thigh, while the trunk was normal; The head is big, the face is wide, the forehead and the bilateral top are wide, the middle finger and the fourth finger are separated, showing a "V" shape, which is called "trigeminal hand"; The lower limbs are bent and the intelligence is normal; According to statistics, the final height of adults is 112-136cm for men and 112-136cm for women.

The growth rate of children's height can be used as a criterion. The growth rate of infants under 3 years old is less than 7 cm / year; From the age of 3 to before puberty, the growth rate is less than 3-5 cm / year; The growth rate of puberty is less than 5-6cm / year, which belongs to the slow growth of height.

The most common disease is growth hormone deficiency (GHD). Others are dwarfism caused by environmental and mental factors, Turner syndrome caused by chromosomal diseases, and dwarfism caused by chronic diseases (such as malnutrition, chronic kidney disease, congenital heart disease, and chronic asthma).

matters needing attention

After the above symptoms of dwarfism, we are very clear and understand, we learned a lot of knowledge, in the discovery of the child's height and others are not the same, we should take the child to the hospital in time for examination and treatment, in order to avoid the child suffering from dwarfism, I hope parents also pay attention to the child's health when monitoring the child.