For a normal 15-year-old boy, the height should be about 1.7 meters, and if you are lucky, it may even be taller...
But some children's height has not been blessed by God,
Not only did it grow more than a dozen centimeters less, but it also had no chance to grow taller.
This is a real case recently exposed online:
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It is understood that it was the boy's younger brother who was initially hospitalized in the pediatric department and was found to have short stature.
After that, the parents brought their brother for examination, but they did not expect that the 15-year-old boy was only 152.9cm tall.
Unfortunately, his epiphyseal line has closed and there is no room to grow taller, and doctors predict that the boy's final height is only 153cm.
What shocked parents even more was the doctor's next words...
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The doctor said that there are 2 reasons why boys do not grow tall, and they are all related to their parents:
1. On the one hand, it is the inheritance of parents, the father is 1 meter 6, the mother is 1 meter 5, and the genetic height is not dominant.
2. On the other hand, parents do not pay enough attention to height intervention early, resulting in missing the golden period of acquired intervention.
We can't change the genetic factors that affect height, we should pay attention to the acquired factors (diet, exercise, sleep, psychology), so that the child's height still has the opportunity to remedy.
If parents can find out earlier that the boy's height is abnormal, then his future height will be another outcome.
Seeing this, some people may want to ask:
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Don't worry, in order to allow parents to find out their child's height abnormality in time, today I will tell you 4 ways to judge.
Children have a rough standard height range at each age, and parents can determine whether the child's height is within this range through measurement comparison.
▽The latest standard height reference map in 2023 (the left picture is a boy, the right picture is a girl) Source|National Health Commission
If the child's height is not within the standard height range, or even lags a lot, then parents should pay attention to it, take the child to the hospital for examination in time and carry out targeted intervention.
Comparing with children of the same age and gender, you can intuitively find out the height level of the child.
If the gap between the child's height and other peers is very obvious, at this time, parents must not hold the idea of "children grow up late", and must take their children in time to investigate the reasons for the height lag.
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Bone age is an important scientific basis for accurately judging the development of a child's height.
Bone age detection too early or too late do not use the child's height assessment and intervention, the best age should be 3~15 years old.
It is recommended that parents can have a bone age test when their children are 4 and 8 years old, and another test during the rapid growth of height (11~13 years old).
Generally speaking, when a child is 14 or 15 years old, the epiphysis has tended to close, and the space for growth is very small.
Therefore, bone age measurement must be carried out in advance before the start of puberty (before the age of 9 for girls and 10 for boys), height prediction and targeted height management in advance.
Every year before puberty, the child can grow 2~4cm longer.
Parents can do a [height assessment] for their children and judge their children's growth and development first!
Help parents know their child's height level!
The growth rate of children's height at each stage has a certain pattern.
If the growth rate of infants under 3 years old < 7 cm per year, from 3 years old to puberty < 4 to 5 cm per year, and puberty < 5.5 to 6.5 cm per year, this means that the child's height may not be up to standard.
If parents find that their child's height growth is abnormal through the above methods, they must check in time to rule out the pathological cause to avoid damage to the child's future height.