An assessment of a child's height and weight, level of intellectual development, and behavior, which responds to the child's level of physical and intellectual development.
For growing children, parents should keep track of how much their child grows each year. "Slower growth is often one of the early signs of childhood illness," said the report, suggesting that parents should measure their children's height every three months, and that they should seek medical advice if they grow less than 5cm a year after age 3 and before puberty develops.
Precocious puberty or early pubertal development of children will be accompanied by bone age advancement, may lead to "high children" "short adults" phenomenon. The reality is that many children in elementary school are taller than their peers, and parents never thought that their children would have height problems. But in middle school or high school children's growth rate gradually decline, in the class line more and more forward, if then come to the doctor, the child's epiphysis may have closed or close to closing.
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Age is a kind of "timer" for the growth process, and bone age is a reliable and objective indicator of the growth process. Generally speaking, if a girl's bone age exceeds 15 years old, and if a boy's bone age exceeds 17 years old, then most of his epiphyses have closed, and his chances of growing taller are very small.
So the sooner we know about epiphyseal closure and the sooner we can intervene, the better we can intervene and treat the child. As long as the treatment is timely, the child can usually have the height of a normal person. Children grow taller has always been the theme of children's growth and development, children who are short or slow-growing, may be genetic factors, but also may be due to disease.
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