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My height 5 feet 3 inch ... i am 16 year old ... please tell about medicine to increase my height?

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Dr. Oscar Novick answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Height: You may have reached your adult levels of height. To findout if you have any growth left ask you doctor to do a bone age on your left hand, .

Answered 4/9/2016

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Balanced nutrition: At sixteen your growth centers have some potential for growth and simple measures help the best.Follow a healthy diet, rest and exercise.Meds will not make you grow taller than your genetic potential.If you want to know how much longer you have to grow, an x-ray of your wrist and hand can be analysed for bone maturity.If close to 16 you have a little left, if like 14 you have more.

Answered 12/10/2013

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