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Unusually short

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Introduction

Introduction In life, each person's height is different, some are tall, some are short, but regardless of height, as long as the body shape is symmetrical, that is, the structure of each part of the body is well-proportioned, it should be regarded as normal. If the abnormality is tall or abnormal, or the family is high, everyone is high, only you can be considered sick.

Cause

Cause

Abnormally small cause:

Pituitary dwarfism and dysplasia, in addition to the above two aspects will lead to abnormally short stature, other systemic diseases including various chronic diseases, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, hookworm disease, physical factors, gonadal dysplasia, etc. Caused the body is abnormally short.

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Height prediction growth hormone height test growth hormone stimulation test infant measuring body length

Abnormally small inspection diagnosis:

If a person grows to an adult size of less than 130 cm, he should consider having a minor illness or dwarfism. A small illness is caused by hypothyroidism in the fetus or newborn, causing obvious growth and developmental disorders. In addition to short stature, there is often mental retardation, which is characteristic of staying a small disease.

If the child grows and develops due to lack of growth hormone in the anterior pituitary, the body is abnormally short, called pituitary dwarfism, but the mental development is generally normal.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Abnormally short and confusing symptoms identification:

1. Dwarfism: Anyone who is less than 30% of the standard height of a child of the same race, age, and gender, or an adult height of 120 cm or less, is called dwarfism or short stature. Dwarfism causes physical growth retardation due to insufficient secretion of auxin due to various reasons. The cause of dwarfism can be attributed to two aspects: congenital factors and acquired factors. Most of the congenital factors affect the growth and development of the fetus due to the deficiency of the parents' blood. Most of them are related to heredity, and the general mental development is normal.

2, stay small: cretinism occurs in areas where goiter is endemic, lack of iodine-induced stagnation in the embryonic period, called local stagnation. Iodine is a necessary raw material for the thyroid to synthesize thyroxine. In areas where iodine is absent, many adults suffer from iodine deficiency and cause goiter. After 4 months of pediatric embryo, the thyroid gland has been able to synthesize thyroxine. However, the mother lacks iodine, and the iodine deficiency provided to the fetus is bound to cause insufficient synthesis of thyroxine in the fetal period, which seriously affects the development of the fetal central nervous system, especially the brain. If iodine is not supplemented in time, it will cause irreversible damage to the nervous system. Symptoms are basically the same as sporadic dysbiosis. However, due to severe damage to the nervous system during the embryonic period, mental retardation is more pronounced and there are varying degrees of hearing and speech impairment.

3, hereditary skeletal dysplasia: hereditary skeletal dysplasia is a group of diseases caused by abnormal bone and cartilage growth leading to skeletal dysplasia, many have short stature performance.