How to make my child grow taller? What are the factors that affect a child’s height? How can we make our children grow as tall as possible?
Bone Age Test: Understanding Growth Potential Many parents have the traditional idea that boys can grow up to 22 years old and girls can grow up to 20 years old, but in fact, these views are not scientific. “To determine whether a child can still grow and how much he or she can still grow, it is not based on the child’s age, but on the child’s bone age.” To understand the state of the child’s bone age and how much more growth potential the child has, parents should take their child to a regular hospital for bone age testing.
It is understood that doctors usually take an X-ray of the child’s wrist part, and then judge it by the appearance of the child’s ossification center, the development of the bone block, and the degree of healing of the epiphysis and the bone stem. Generally speaking, if a girl’s bone age exceeds 15 years old and a boy’s bone age exceeds 17 years old, most of the epiphyses have already closed and the chances of growing taller are very slim. Therefore, the earlier the epiphysis healing is understood, the earlier the intervention can be carried out, and the better the intervention treatment for the child.
Early intervention: Leading the growth acceleration period There are many factors that affect a child’s height. “Genetics plays a big role in this. But it doesn’t mean that if the parents are short, the child must not grow taller.” Intervention treatment with the right tools at the right time can have a big impact on height. For children with familial short stature or somatic short stature, growth hormone can then play a role in promoting their growth and development.
If the measured bone age is less than or equal to 13 years for boys and less than or equal to 12 years for girls, this is the appropriate time period for treatment. The proper application of medication such as growth hormone can promote the growth of the child’s height. There are also other pathological conditions that cause children to be short in height. For these children, growth hormone supplementation has a very clear effect, such as “dwarfism”.
Parents are advised to consider taking their child to a specialist immediately if they notice that their child is 4 cm shorter than their peers, or if their adolescent child grows less than 10 cm a year.