Information for children with growth disorders

Note to children with growth disorders: 1. Avoid eating: synthetic feed-raised poultry, imported food (KFC, McDonald’s and other fast food chicken), anti-seasonal vegetables, soybean products, supplements (snapper, chicken, pollen, royal jelly, ginseng, praise soup), beverages, snacks; 2. Plan diet, balanced nutrition: natural food as the mainstay, reasonable arrangement of three meals, more lean meat (beef and mutton, fish, eggs, fresh milk) vegetables, fruits; supplement calcium; 3. (1) vegetables and fruits; calcium supplements; (3) strengthen physical activity: 1 to 2 hours of daily exercise, stretching, chest expansion, leg lifting, high jumping, rope skipping and other exercises are appropriate, the exercise time between 15:00 and 21:00 is appropriate; sleep before 9:30 p.m., to ensure that the sleep in 8 to 9 hours or more.

The secretion of human growth hormone is characterized by two peaks in a lifetime, i.e., birth to 3 years old, puberty (10-12 years old for girls and 12-14 years old for boys), the highest secretion in spring and summer, and the highest secretion at 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. during the day, and increased secretion after exercise. Exercise test (growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor, A gong, etc.), bone age, additional checkups for adolescent children: gonadotropic hormones; before using growth hormone to help growth, the following should be done: cranial pituitary MRI, liver function, hepatitis B, blood glucose, insulin-like growth factor Growth hormone dosage 0.12~0.15 units/kg body weight/day, treatment course at least more than 6 months.

After two months of using growth hormone, you should check A gong and blood sugar, liver gong, and recheck bone age and insulin-like growth factor after 3 months.