In December 2023, Ms. Wu brought her son Xiao Kai, who had the dream of being a pilot, to the clinic of Director Li Qin of Xiangtan Errenhe Hospital for treatmentThe 8-year-old Xiaokai is 166 tall6 cm, 2 cm away from the critical height requirement of 168-178cm for "Zhaofei".
Xiaokai's mother recalled that during the physical examination in the fall of 2023, the doctor recommended going to the hospital for a reexamination. Later, Ms. Wu learned that Xiangtan Errenhe Hospital had a special specialty for growth and development management, so she came to Director Li Qin's clinic for treatment.
Li Qin, director of the Department of Pediatrics of Xiangtan Errenhe Hospital, and Ni Lingli, director of the hospital, visited Xiaokai and inquired).
Fortunately, Xiao Kai's epiphyseal line has not yet closed, and there is still room to grow taller, so at the suggestion of Director Li Qin, Ms. Wu chose to inject her son with growth hormone and follow the doctor's instructions for scientific growth and development management.
Two months after the injection, during the Chinese New Year, Ms. Wu took Xiao Kai to Xiangtan Errenhe Hospital for a re-examination, and found that Xiao Kai's height had increased by 2 cm.
Director Li Qin said: Majors that require height are no longer limited to specific occupations such as military academies, public security, medicine, pilots, broadcasting hosts, and tourism management, and the phenomenon of "choosing a high level to enter" is widespread. Parents should help their children grasp the first period of growing taller, manage growth and development, and intervene scientifically in a timely manner.
Three misunderstandings about children's height: Parents should "avoid lightning"!
1.Blindly waiting, thinking that the child is still young, and it will grow naturally when it should be grown.
The child's height at the age of 3 years correlates with the final height by up to 80%; If the child fails to catch up with other normal children's height at the age of 3, the lifelong height may also lag behind, and the phenomenon of late growth is not a common phenomenon, and the child cannot be blindly considered to be late and blindly wait.
2.If the parents are tall, the children will not be short.
The height of the child is affected by many factors: genetics, environment, endocrine diseases, etc., so the height of the parents is not necessarily the height of the child; Parents are short, and children don't have to be short in height. If your child's height is short compared to that of his peers, he or she needs to see a growth and development specialist in time.
3.The child's test results are normal, but he is short in stature and does not need to be **.
Routine examination results are normal but short stature, clinically known as idiopathic short stature, is the most common cause of short stature in childhood, including familial short stature. If children with idiopathic short stature do not accept it in time, the probability of lifelong height in adulthood is also backward!
Director Li Qin reminded that the genetic factors of parents account for 60-70% of the final height acquisition, and 30-40% are closely related to nutrition, exercise, sleep, mood and other factors.
Parents should pay attention to the growth of their children at any time, and once they find that they are obviously short, precocious, obese and other abnormal conditions, they should go to the hospital as soon as possible to find a professional doctor for treatment.
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