What is dwarfism?
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What is dwarfism? Dwarfism refers to children whose height is lower than the two standard deviations (- 2sd, SD) of the average height of children of the same gender, age and race, and whose annual growth rate is less than 5cm. The growth rate of children was less than 7 cm / year before 3 years old; ② It is less than 5 cm / year from the age of 3 to adolescence; ③ Puberty is less than 6 cm / year. What's the way to judge dwarfism?
What is dwarfism?
Parents can take their children to the hospital to do a bone age test, bone age is the basis for accurately judging a child's height development. Normal children, bone age and age development is synchronous. But in children with dwarfism, bone age development is earlier or later than age. Therefore, bone age test is the safest and most reliable monitoring method for children.
Parents must know the method of age comparison. This method is to compare their children with the children of the same age and sex. For example, in a certain period, the children are obviously shorter than other children, indicating that the children's development is abnormal. This approach is particularly important for parents with fewer children. For example, if you don't see the child for a period of time, and suddenly see the child, you find that the height has not changed, you should immediately pay attention to the child's development.
Parents can also use the standard data method to test whether a child has dwarfism. This method measures the height of the child according to the height of each age group in the medical textbooks, and then compares it with the standard data to see whether it is within the normal range, and monitors whether the height growth of the child is normal in each age group.
matters needing attention
Parents must pay attention to daily life must let the child have a reasonable diet, don't let the child suffer from dwarfism disease, in time to find the disease, must be timely treatment, dwarfism children may gradually recover, parents more patience, the child will be healthy, hope the child recover as soon as possible.
