With the approach of summer, the topic of children’s growth and development health has once again aroused social concern. At present, there are 7 million children with dwarfism in need of treatment in China, but less than 30,000 patients actually receive reasonable treatment every year. Children and their parents should not blindly believe in various concepts of “height increase”, not to mention “talking about hormones”. Early diagnosis and symptomatic treatment with growth hormone injections can completely improve height. Many parents don’t know that being short may be a pathological condition, and they don’t know that such diseases can be treated with intervention.”
For children’s growth, many parents have cognitive misconceptions: blindly waiting for their children’s height to “scamper” when they get older; blindly listening to advertising, giving children to eat the so-called “height-enhancing drugs”, health products or use “physical Instead, they have doubts about the regular treatment drug growth hormone because it contains the word “hormone”.
In fact, among children with short stature, a considerable part of them is caused by the lack of human growth hormone. This hormone is a protein secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and is the main hormone that promotes human growth, stimulating the differentiation and proliferation of epiphyseal chondrocytes and long bone growth in children, making the human body grow taller and regulating material metabolism and energy balance. If the patient’s growth hormone secretion is insufficient or disordered, it will affect normal growth. “For these affected children, the most effective way is to inject supplemental human growth hormone.
However, many parents nowadays have ‘growth hormone phobia’, believing that the hormone must have side effects such as gaining weight, becoming ugly and endocrine disorders, and some even refuse to receive treatment.
The chemical structure of recombinant human growth hormone using genes is exactly the same as that secreted naturally by humans. Recombinant human growth hormone is the only effective drug approved by the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to promote children’s growth. The United States, the European Union and China have all made relevant specifications for the indications of growth hormone treatment.
The earlier the intervention, the better the treatment for dwarfism. The earlier the intervention, the more the child’s adult height can be improved. For children who need to use growth hormone, the treatment can only be effective if the injection is given before the epiphysis closes, and to some extent, the treatment of this type of dwarfism is also a race against the growth rate of the epiphysis. He said that parents should pay close attention to their children’s growth, and it is recommended to measure their height every 2 months. If they are always in the top three in the class standing in line, or if they are 5 cm to 10 cm shorter than children of the same age, parents should pay attention and take their children to the pediatric endocrinology clinic of a regular hospital for medical attention.
When a child grows slowly or even does not grow, many parents think it is a lack of nutrition and calcium, and all kinds of supplements, health supplements, height-enhancing drugs and calcium supplements are greeted to the child. This is a big misunderstanding of parents about short stature.
Human growth hormone is a kind of protein, which can only be effectively absorbed through injection, and if taken orally, it will be broken down by the digestive system and become ineffective. For drugs that claim to be taken orally to increase height, they are generally not to be trusted. In addition, some health products and so-called pure Chinese medicine preparations currently on the market may have illegal additions, which may have a short-term effect of increasing height, but may cause precocious maturity and early epiphyseal closure, affecting the final height, which is actually pulling the seedlings to help them grow. At present, China has not approved any “height” effect of health products.