Does children's growth hormone have side effects?

If a child suffers from malnutrition during his growth and development period, it will affect the child's normal physical development. If the normal development of the body is affected, the main symptom is short stature. Child growth hormone is a drug used to treat children's short stature. Therefore, many parents will let their children take child growth hormone when they find that their children have a tendency to be short. But will children's growth hormone cause side effects on children's bodies?

The adverse reactions of growth hormone therapy found so far are mainly short-term transient, mainly including:

1. It may cause transient hyperglycemia, which usually returns to normal with prolonged medication or after discontinuation of medication.

2. In clinical trials, 1% of children with short stature experienced side effects. Common local transient reactions at the injection site (pain, numbness, redness, swelling, etc.) occurred at a rate that decreased with prolonged medication and rarely affected daily activities. Please consult your doctor for specific advice. Some children will experience local pain after hormone injection, which is mainly related to psychological factors and is tolerable.

3. If joint pain or myalgia occurs after strenuous exercise or a sudden increase in the amount of exercise, you should reduce the amount of exercise and exercise in moderation. The level will decrease as the duration of medication increases. Please consult your doctor for specific advice and reexamination.

4. Swelling of the eyelids and other parts of the body may occur in the morning. This is a symptom of fluid retention. Water and sodium retention is a common adverse reaction after the use of growth hormone. Edema usually occurs in the eyelids, face, back of the hands, back of the feet, lower limbs, etc. Continue to use it if you can tolerate it, and the symptoms will generally disappear within 3-7 days.

5. Increased intracranial pressure. After the injection, the child's intracranial pressure increased and he developed headache symptoms. In most cases, intracranial pressure will decrease accordingly as the medication is used for a longer period of time, and the symptoms will disappear completely.