Wary! 530,000 children in China have precocious puberty! More than 10 million cases of developmental delay

　"Suppressing needles and growth hormone do have some effects on the human body, for example, affecting glucose metabolism and bone growth rate, and if there is a tumor in the child's body, growth hormone will also make the tumor grow faster." Yao Hui said that during the epidemic, the incidence of precocious puberty in children has also increased, which is also due to the decrease in children's activities, eating more, easy to cause an increase in body fat, and also has a certain impact on development, but it should be noted that not all precocious puberty needs to be treated.

The normal growth process of children is divided into three stages, of which 0~3 years old is the infant and toddler period, which is the first peak period of growth, during which the child grows rapidly; 3 years old ~ before puberty is childhood, during which the child's growth rate tends to be stable; Adolescence is the second peak of growth.

Yao Hui introduced that the most obvious sign in the growth process is height. The average height of a child at birth is about 50 cm; Height increases fastest in the first year of life, with an average growth of about 25 cm; The average annual growth of 1~3 years old is about 11~12 cm; After the age of 3, the growth rate gradually tends to stabilize, with an annual growth of about 5~7 cm; By puberty, due to the action of sex hormones, growth enters a rapid stage.

Today is the annual International Children's Day, and caring for the healthy growth of children has always been the focus of the whole society.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the economy, the social living standards have generally improved, and the conditions for children's growth have been greatly improved, especially in terms of clothing, food, play and other material aspects. At the same time, however, the incidence of developmental abnormalities in children, including precocious puberty and developmental delays, is increasing. Relevant studies have shown that the prevalence of precocious puberty has reached 0.28~4.74%, while the prevalence of developmental delay has reached 3.0~6.0%. According to the survey data of the China Health Promotion and Education Association, there are about 530,000 children with precocious puberty in China, and according to incomplete statistics, the number of children with developmental delay even exceeds 10 million.

However, in the face of abnormal growth and development of children, many parents' cognition is very insufficient. According to the in-depth social survey report on the health status of children and adolescents in China, 84.1% of parents do not know how to care about the physical and mental changes of children and adolescents, and only 23.6% of parents take their children to professional hospitals for physical examination every year.

So, how to effectively avoid and correctly treat children's growth and development abnormalities? Yao Hui, chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of Wuhan Children's Hospital, told the 21st Century Economic Herald reporter that nowadays, many parents who are worried about their children's height hope to use "height increase needles" to make their children grow taller rapidly, and at the same time, in order to avoid precocious puberty by injecting inhibitory needles to reduce sex hormone levels and inhibit too rapid development, these are all wrong practices. Parents should still follow medical norms, and if they do not meet medical norms, do not interfere with the normal growth of their children.