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Director of Incheon General Hospital Himchan Park Hye-young presents a solution to growing a short statured and underweight child on CHOSUN TV ‘Kidden Time’

In the 5th episode of ‘Kidden Time’ on CHOSUN TV, which will be broadcast on the 4th, Hye-Young Park (endocrinology specialist), chairman of Incheon Himchan General Hospital, helps the growth of a 10-year-old girl who is suffering oa reduction in growth hormone.

On this day’s broadcast, a mother of a child who suffers from a particularly short stature and low weight than her peers appears and receives a growth solution. Normal growth is a concern due to unhealthy eating habits, such as liking jelly, sweets, and chocolate, eating less, and refusing soft-textured food.

It is expected to solve viewers’ questions, such as how to eat balanced meals regularly for children who urgently need to correct their eating habits, and how to exercise according to their body type and which are not good for growth. In addition, based on the results of detailed health examinations, hospital medical staff introduce spine and joint stretching methods, growth plate stimulation methods, and suggest correct height growth solutions.

Park Hye-young, director of Incheon Himchan General Hospital, said, “If you are 10 years old, you are at an age when your body is growing slowly and your skeletal formation is becoming clear. “If you are unusually shorter or taller than your peers, you need to examine if there are any other causes of hormonal imbalance apart from your eating habits,” he said.

In addition, the broadcast presents a method to check for growth hormone deficiency when it is judged that there is a problem with growth, such as bone age is younger than the calendar age and the percentile is low. In addition, it will inform how to check the maximum concentration to know the state of growth hormone secretion through different growth hormone stimulation tests.

Meanwhile, ‘Kidden Time’ is broadcast every Sunday at 11:50 am, and not only provides accurate information about height growth, but also various concerns related to children’s growth, such as early puberty, constitutional growth delay, and status idiopathic short Submit the answer.

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