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#6岁孩子打激素长高后
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After the child is injected with growth hormone
Frequent illness
According to Guangzhou Daily, the child of Shenzhen Min He Li (pseudonym) is 6 years old and 109 centimeters tall, which belongs to the "short range" according to the "Children's Height Value Comparison Table".
Seeing that the height of her classmates surpassed her children one by one, He Li was so anxious that she couldn't sleep all night. So, she took the child to the hospital and asked the doctor to inject the child with growth hormone for a year.
After the injection, the results are noticeable. The child's height grew from 109 cm to 120 cm, and he grew 11 cm taller in a year, compared to only five or six cm in the year before he was hormones.
But side effects also follow, children often have colds, fevers and other symptoms, but the cause cannot be found. In addition, after every physical education class, the child always feels muscle soreness, and sooner or later he will have unexplained dizziness symptoms, He Li said, "these conditions have never been seen before the hormone injection."
Do you want to "grow taller" or "healthy"? He Li thought twice and chose the latter. After stopping the growth hormone injections, the child's physical condition gradually returned to normal.
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Growth hormone is mainly used in medicine to treat short stature
It is quite popular in the parent circle
Some parents have seen their children being taller than their peers
Or you want your child to grow taller
I thought of injecting my child with growth hormone
Parents are anxious about their child's height
Actively seek growth hormone
On social platforms, many parents shared their experience of injecting growth hormone into their children, and many parents left messages in the comment area: "I don't want my child to feel inferior because of his height", "My child is 5 years old and has not yet 1 meter, what should I do", "I have been taking hormones for 3 months, my height is motionless, and I am so anxious......
According to a pediatric endocrinologist in Wuhan, Hubei Province, half of the patients he sees every day are parents who come to consult about their children's height and whether they need to use growth hormone to help them grow taller.
According to doctors in the industry, the full name of children's growth hormone is genetically recombinant human growth hormone, which can only be used to treat growth hormone deficiency, idiopathic short stature, SGA persistent growth retardation after birth, short bowel syndrome, etc., and the scope of treatment cannot be expanded without authorization.
Despite this, some parents still can't avoid anxiety when they see that their children are not growing up, and try to inject their children with growth hormone. Some doctors complained, and some parents came to the outpatient clinic and asked for growth hormone tests for their children, but the doctor said that they didn't need to do it and were scolded.
Parents' height anxiety has also given birth to the purchasing hormone industry chain. Parents are trying their best to seek remote and low-cost channels for taking medicine on the Internet, and from time to time they can see information about purchasing growth hormone at low prices in social groups such as "Grow Tall and High Growth Hormone Exchange Group".
Feel free to inject growth hormone
The side effects are very harmful to the body
According to reports, dozens of parents who have injected their children with growth hormone in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other places have found that although their children's height has improved, there are also many side effects.
Xiao He, the daughter of Beijing resident Su Qing (pseudonym), is 9 years old and 134 centimeters tall. Generally speaking, this height is at a normal level, but Xiao He was detected at a private hospital with a bone age that was two years older, so she followed the advice of the doctors in the hospital and let her child supplement growth hormone to "chase the height".
On the first day after taking growth hormone, Xiao He had obvious symptoms of discomfort, dizziness and vomiting, unable to eat at all, and had to lie flat to relieve it. The next day, the child's dizziness subsided, but he was still unable to eat normally. In the early morning of the third day, the child began to have a high fever, which gradually subsided after taking antipyretics, but the dizziness worsened. It wasn't until the fourth day that the symptoms were relieved.
The doctor suggested waiting for the symptoms to ease before trying to reduce the dose, but seeing that the child's rejection of growth hormone was so great, Su Qing did not dare to take the risk. "In this case, the doctor still asked us to continue the injection, I don't know if we really think there is no problem, or if we don't care about anything in order to make money."
In fact, children with normal growth hormone secretion cannot be injected with growth hormone. Otherwise, it is easy to lead to endocrine system disorders and other problems.
The reporter learned from a tertiary children's hospital in Zhejiang that if the child's height deviates seriously from the average height, there is a possibility of fighting, and it is necessary to use growth hormone therapy only if the short stature of the disease state is reached. At the same time, it should also be noted that some special short stature diseases are not suitable or even contraindicated, such as achondroplasia, growth hormone is not very suitable; Growth hormone should also be contraindicated for Bloom syndrome.
"Whether you want to inject growth hormone or not, you must find a specialist for a strict evaluation." A pediatrician in a hospital in Hebei told reporters that even if the doctor assesses the physical condition and can take growth hormone, it may also have side effects, such as increased blood sugar, endocrine disorders, and some children may also have hypothyroidism, or accompanied by joint pain, vascular syndrome, myalgia, stiffness, etc.
Some doctors pointed out that growth hormone injections in children need to be indicated, and whether injections are needed cannot be judged solely based on the height of children. At present, there are signs of abuse of growth hormone, which may bring health risks such as endocrine disorders, spondylolisthesis, and scoliosis to users.
Scientific interventions
It can help children break through the genetic height
Liu Shu, chief physician of the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Genetics and Metabolism of Guangdong Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, said that parental genetics is an important factor affecting children's height.
Big data shows that about 70% of individual height differences are determined by genetic factors, and in general, children born to tall parents are taller than children born to short parents. However, the children of tall parents will also be affected by the height of the next generation or short relatives in the family, such as grandparents or grandparents who are short in stature, and there may also be short stature; Parental short stature is usually not inherited if it is an acquired factor, which is one of the reasons why short parents also have tall children.
The remaining 30% can be attributed to environmental influences, mainly nutrition, endocrine and disease. Long-term malnutrition in childhood, frequent illness or endocrine diseases, hereditary metabolic diseases, chronic organic diseases, infectious diseases, etc., are not conducive to height growth. However, it is not said that more nutrition is better, because overnutrition, especially obesity, will lead to faster bone age, increase the risk of precocious puberty, and be detrimental to height growth.
Source: Jimu News
Editor: Shi Ying
Duty week: Hu Yaling, Zhang Hui
Editor-in-Chief: Li Sheng