Malnutrition
Nutrition plays a very important role in the growth of the child. Children chronic malnutrition will affect the development of height. Nutritional intervention will improve the height for the child.
Zinc deficiency
The survey shows that the mother be zinc deficiency during pregnancy will have the expression family such as nausea, vomiting, difficulty sleeping, loss of appetite-and most are rising--should lead to lack of supply of nutrients for the fetus to grow. The deficiency of nutrition in the development stage on will cause the situation to slow growth of the fetus and the child born is usually light weight and lack of breast milk.
Genetics
Children is the reflection of her parents. Parents often also have low height below the average and vice versa. The child's adult height can be computed from the average height of the parents.
Slow growth due to be Tibetan, also called the delay of puberty
Older slow growth on the stage before puberty typically is lower than your classmates. However the child will reach normal height when the child finishes puberty.
Slow growth in the uterus
10% did not catch up to normal height at age 2. Let's take children to see a doctor if your baby is premature birth, low birth weight and not reach normal height at age 2. Some children may need treatment to reach normal height.
To emotional trauma psychology
Child abuse, sexual abuse ... may be affecting growth. Children need a healthy nurturing environments to achieve good growth.
Lack of sleep
In addition to providing full of nutrients, high children have to be to get enough sleep, sleep at night. Growth hormone by the pituitary secretion of the highest is at night, about 23-24 g when that child was asleep.
Chronic disease
Some children have impaired liver, kidney disease ... can lead to slow physical development. Good background disease treatment can improve the physical growth of children.
Chromosome abnormalities
Turner syndrome, met in young women have abnormal chromosomes (45XO), sometimes has the normal appearance but slow growth. When older children will have the problems of the reproductive system such as infinity, not pubescent. Your doctor will diagnose by chromosome tests for children.
Bone and cartilage dysplasia
Children often have erratic appearance, short legs, short arms, wrist, ankles, skull anomalies ...
Hormonal causes
Growth hormone deficiency: When the body's troubled production and release not enough growth hormone, which leads to a condition called growth hormone deficiency.
Hypothyroidism: When the body does not secrete enough thyroid hormones, slow growth may occur because of the impact this hormone directly to the growth and metabolism.
Using breast milk too long
Younger than 2 years old but still not breastfeeding must be good. Should complementary foods rich in calcium and protein for youngsters such as yogurt and cheese.
Lazy athlete
Sometimes, the child becomes active due to the addiction sloths games sitting in one spot. The child needs to strengthen the muscles by running jump, exercise ...
For daily sunbathing to synthetic skin enough vitamin D for the body. Babies should be get enough sleep at night, not to the child sleeping late after 1 h. Create conditions for children to live in the environment is not polluted, enhanced for children are physical Active from a young age.=