Can giving children growth hormone help them grow taller?

There are stages in a child's growth process. During the child's growth, many parents like to compare their children with other children. Especially when they find that their children are shorter than other children, many parents will be very worried that their children cannot grow taller, so they will think of some ways to solve the problem of height growth, such as giving their children growth hormones. Is this method correct? Now let’s talk about the issue of giving children growth hormone to help them grow taller.

1. Situation 1

The condition in which children suffer from growth disorders and short stature due to insufficient secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland is called growth hormone deficiency. Primary growth hormone deficiency is more common in boys. Affected children have normal height and weight at birth, but show growth retardation after a few weeks, which becomes gradually obvious after 2-3 years old. Their appearance is obviously smaller than their actual age, but the proportions of various parts of the body are still symmetrical and their intellectual development is also normal. The height is more than 30% lower than that of normal children of the same age. As age increases, lack of secondary sexual characteristics and hypoplasia of sexual organs may occur. Secondary growth hormone deficiency can occur at any age. In addition to the above symptoms, there are also various symptoms and signs of the primary disease. Once the disease is diagnosed, the younger the age at which treatment is started, the better the effect. Currently, domestically produced recombinant human growth hormone is widely used.

2. Case 2

Height is closely related to genetics, nutritional status, and exercise. Pay attention to balanced nutrition and participate in more physical exercise. It is best to check hormone levels to see if there are any abnormalities. If there is no special reason, it is best not to increase height by taking hormones. The harm of injecting growth hormone into children is very serious.

3. Case 3

The injection of growth hormone is very harmful to children. First of all, it will undoubtedly affect the child's development. This influence is not good because the human body itself can secrete growth hormone. Even for children with growth hormone deficiency and poor development, care should be taken not to inject growth hormone at will. There are many ways to let children grow up healthily, but it is not recommended to use injection of growth hormone.

4. Situation 4

There are many dangers of injecting growth hormone into children. When growth hormone is used under the guidance of a doctor, there are generally no serious adverse reactions. A small number of children may experience edema and local pain at the injection site, which generally does not require treatment and will disappear naturally.