7 years old nails stopped growing ... am I paranoid

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Hey so my 7yo boy nails stopped growing i haven't had to use nail clipper since like August.. at first I thought its a phase now im worried...
He also was always in the 75th 50th line when it came to growth he is now on the 25th and his feet size hasn't changed for over a year now
... am I being paranoid...
Is this normal ?

He's biting them op.

That's what i first thought but it's the same on his toes and I have never seen him biting his nails
Its also doesn't look like its bitten its just always looked well manicured ..like you just cut his nails

Is he getting enough Calcium and vitamin D?

He is taking multivitamins
But not regularly ad its a struggle to convince him to get it .
He has cereal in the morning milk wise..

Is there calcium in his vitamin tablet?

Is the milk on his cereal his only source of Calcium currently?

He needs a minimum of 550 mg of calcium per day and 100 ml of full fat cow’s milk has 100 mg, so he would need to he getting calcium from other sources as well.

Thank you
Do you think multivitamin will help?
As he is not the greatest lover of cheese.
Just checked and no no calcium in his vitamins ... its the wellkid one he is taking -also do you think i should give him some calcium vit. With vitamin d for a month yo see how it goes or to take him to the doctors

What’s his diet like? If he doesn’t like cheese will he eat other things with calcium in them like custard, rice pudding, whole yoghurt, hot chocolate made with full fat milk, scampi in breadcrumbs, and broccoli?

Lots of sliced white bread are fortified with calcium as is Ready Brek.

I would go to the GP though avd get him checked.

Measure him properly
Then again in 3 months
If he really not growing at all and has dropped centiles in past 12 months then take to gp. (Dont cimpare with baby newborn but in pas year ir so )
Coeliac can stop growth

He should be growing 5 to 7 cm per year

Thank you he hasn't grown much in the last 8 months
And his shoe size is still the same.
I bought the calcium supplements x and will take him to see his GP xxx

Potentially coeliac disease. Very first symptom for my son (who is now diagnosed) was that his weight did not go up nor shoe size for a full year aged 9. From there more symptoms eventually began to show over the course of 6 months.

If you have your Red Book, take it with you when you see the GP and ask them to weigh and measure him and record it in his Red Book. This will give a baseline which will be useful of he’s referred to Paediatrics

Ask for coeliac blood test (any coeliac or diabetes or other autoimmune in wider family?) and routine blood tests. Ask for referral to growth clinic.

Thank you x
I made an appointment for Wednesday and will ask for this x

Don’t feed him this it’s all processed and white bread is not good for you.

Take a food diary with you you can record all food intake from say last weds to tuesday .

Most of the things I mentioned are in the article from the BDA on calcium.

My daughter's didn't grow for years and I blamed it on her ridiculous insistence on only eating plain carbs and apples for a couple of years. She is fine now as an adult and eats a great varied diet.