Many children in the outpatient clinic are not tall, because parents think that the child is short and late, and when they come to the consultation, the child only has 1-2cm of growth space, and some have even closed the bone age and do not grow up.
In fact, this is a mixture of bone age and age by parents, and the age at which each child's height stops growing is different, but the bone age when it stops growing is the same. Generally, girls will gradually stop growing taller at about 14 years old, and boys will gradually stop growing taller at about 16 years old.
And those children who often hear the elderly say that they can grow up at the age of 17 or 18 years old are because their bone age has not yet closed, and there is still room for growth, but it is rare. Especially now that children are better nourished, and most of them develop early. Don't listen to the neighbor's casual talk, and don't listen to the old man say that if a child grows short, he grows late. You can take a bone age film for your child, and you can eliminate the risk for 100 yuan. Looking at his bone age, this one is the most accurate.
Whether the child grows up late or not depends on these 3 points.
The first is to see if the child's bone age is small. If he is short by age, but his bone age is younger than his actual age, and the bone age and the corresponding height match, then he may be growing late.
The second is to look at heredity. Look at whether both parents grow up late, and sometimes, both parents develop puberty late, so the child may do the same. But this is not absolute, now the nutritional conditions are good, and there are fewer children who grow up late.
The third is to look at the child's growth rate. If the child is shorter than children of the same age, but the growth rate is okay, for example, after the age of 3, the child can grow six or seven centimeters a year, then his growth rate is normal, and it may be late.
Finally, here is another reminder to parents, now there are very few children who grow late, and there are more and more children with large bone age, if your child is also short and slow, especially if you have fallen behind your peers a lot, don't have a fluke mentality, you go to a professional doctor to help your child find the reason for backwardness, intervene as soon as possible, and don't let your child have regrets.