Growth Problems :
Growth problems is a broad term used to describe the conditions related to a child's inability to grow. Factors influencing growth problems are genetics, hormonal disorders, systemic illness, poor absorption of food, severe stress, endocrine diseases such as diabetes, syndromes like Turner syndrome, down syndrome achondroplasia, Noonan syndrome, Russell-silver syndrome and Prader-Willi syndrome, growth hormone deficiency, congenital problems in growth tissues, intrauterine growth restriction, chromosome and skeletal abnormalities, and precocious puberty. Symptoms of growth disorders are delayed mental and social skills, slow development of physical skills in sitting, standing, and walking, and delayed secondary sexual characteristics. Growth hormone injections and thyroid hormone replacement can be recommended.