Medical Advice On "Growth"

Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I can understand your concern. The first thing to note is your IGF (insulin-growth-factor) is less than average for your age. However, multiple factors affect its levels in the body, including workouts in the gym. I...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Nagaraj Patil

Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Very few people ask us how to gain weight. It depends on bodies basal metabolic rate. Many people who eat too much but still will not gain weight because they have a high basal metabolic rate, which we call it as BMR ...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Nagaraj Patil

Hello! Your daughter's height is not too small for her age, but she is short. There are some options: deficiency of anabolic hormones, severe somatic diseases, genetic and chromosomal diseases. In most cases, growth retardation is due to hereditary...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Artur Holubka

Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I want to get some more information from you before answering this question. 1. How tall are you now? 2. How tall are your parents and siblings? 3. How controlled is your thyroid? 4. Is your TSH (Thyroid-stimulating...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Sruti Chandrasekaran

Hi, Welcome to Icliniq, I understand your concern, Answering to your Query, Apart from genetics and hormones, Nutrition and Physical Activity play an important role in Normal growth. Mid puberty changes include increased pubic hair, axillary...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Balamurugan

Respected, thank you for asking question, I have understood your concern about gaining height, see height is genetically predetermined we can't change anything beyond certain limit... height is affected due to long bones growth which will be fixed o...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Hemang Sudhakarbhai Jani

Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. After you attain puberty, the body's long bones stop growing further as their growing ends fuse with the bone. These bones then reach a permanent size. There are many pills, injections,etc., available through the interne...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Anshul Varshney

Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. There can be few reasons for his ankle pain: 1. Growth pains in addition to calf muscle over-exhaustion, can lead to such acute pains during sleep, or sometimes, it may not let the cold fall sleep at all. 2. Defici...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Manu Bharadwaj

Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I understood your concern. Your cousin of 10 years old is quite normal to have this much height. I have gone through the picture what you sent me (attachment removed to protect patient identity). Sometimes, low h...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Hemang Sudhakarbhai Jani

Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Your daughter's weight and height are just on the lower side of normal. At this age, if everything else is normal, then height is usually constitutional or genetic, which depends on parental weight and height.&...  View thread »

Answered by Dr. Sirisha