What should I do if my child's bone age is too high?

In modern society, due to many reasons, some children have an older bone age. Many children who are only in their teens have the bone age of people in their twenties. Many people believe that if the bone age is older at a young age, it will affect the normal development of the child's own bones. Many people don’t know what to do when they encounter this situation. So, what should we do if children’s bone age is too old?

First, what should we do if children's bone age is too old? Bone age is older than actual age, which is generally caused by premature development. Some parents give their children supplements such as royal jelly, pollen, chicken embryos, silkworm pupae, etc. These foods contain more sex hormones and even gonadotropin-like substances. If taken in large quantities for a long time, it can cause an increase in the level of sex hormones in the blood, causing children to develop prematurely and have an older bone age. Children with precocious puberty will have an older bone age. Because sex hormones are released early, growth hormone also moves abnormally, causing bones to mature earlier and bone age to be higher. The epiphysis will close prematurely, overdrawing growth potential, shortening the growth period, and stopping height development prematurely, ultimately leading to short stature.

Second, bone age is proportional to actual age and are basically consistent, but there will also be deviations. A deviation between bone age and actual age within 1 year is normal. If the child's bone age is older than 1 year old, it may be due to physical illness, which affects abnormal bone development. For example, adrenal hyperplasia or tumor, Alrebert syndrome, hyperthyroidism, ovarian granulosa cell tumor, etc. will lead to advanced bone age. You should ask a doctor to check and treat the symptoms. If a child's bone age is relatively old, treatment should be targeted at the cause after a doctor's examination and diagnosis. For advanced bone age caused by precocious puberty, drugs can be used to inhibit the secretion of gonadotropin by the hypothalamus-pituitary gland to prevent premature healing of the epiphysis. For advanced bone age caused by adrenal or thyroid diseases, appropriate hormone treatment should be carried out.

What should we do if children’s bone age is too old? Most children with too old bone age have bad eating habits. Parents should pay attention to adjustments: control their diet appropriately. Avoid overnutrition, especially avoid fatty foods and eat less sweets, so as to prevent excessive calories from being converted into excess fat in children's bodies, causing endocrine disorders, and leading to premature bone development. Avoid the abuse of supplements. Parents should not give their children nutritional supplements and health products containing sex hormones, and should eat less tonic foods such as ginseng, cordyceps, astragalus, royal jelly, protein powder, etc. Eat less out-of-season vegetables and fruits, and avoid eating too much early-maturing animals and poultry, especially poultry necks. Children with older bone age need to maintain normal bone growth through exercise. Try to let your children choose easy, lively, free-stretching and open activities, such as swimming, dancing, high jump, basketball, badminton, horizontal bar, skipping rope, etc. It is effective to maintain at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise every day.