Recheck with doctor: Most people reach their maximum height in their late teens, regardless of whether or not a teen has thalassemia. Aside from following the instructions of his primary care and hematology doctors, eating nutritious food, exercising, sleeping well, and being happy, there's not much a person nor his doctors can do to increase a 17 year-old's height beyond his natural destiny.
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