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My baby is 1 year 3 month old . Her height is 80cm and weight is 10kg.legs and hands are bow since birth knee and elbow not opening straight She is not walking properly. Legs and hands are hard and having thick bone. What is the normal gap between shin???
I m very Worry when I read about dwarf her symtoms are match with dwarfism.
Plz help any one. What shoud i to do??
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According to your history height at this age is normal 80cms and regarding bow legs we can wait upto 2.5yrs it will gradually decrease , if nit after that then shld rule out metabolic disorders like blounts or rickets
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