Growth hormone is a peptide hormone that is mainly used to treat growth retardation in children and insufficient growth hormone in adults. With the improvement of living standards, parents have higher and higher requirements for their children's height, followed by more and more use of growth hormone, and there are many misunderstandings about the use. Let's take a look at what misconceptions should be avoided when using HGH:
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Myth 1: As long as you are short, you can use growth hormone
Not all tall growth can be treated with growth hormone, especially for children who are in the normal range but below parental expectations. Growth hormone can only be used if a doctor has definitively diagnosed short stature due to growth hormone deficiency or other related causes. Blind use of growth hormone not only has no effect on heightening, but may also affect the child's normal growth and development. Experts emphasize that "growth hormone cannot be used in the treatment of normal short children with the sole purpose of improving height".
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Myth 2: The more growth hormone is used, the taller the child will be
Many parents mistakenly believe that the more growth hormone is used, the higher the child will grow, which is actually wrong. As a medicine, there may also be adverse reactions during the use of growth hormone, such as pain at the injection site, edema, joint pain, etc., and excessive use of growth hormone may also cause changes in the child's blood sugar. Therefore, the medication should be strictly followed according to the doctor's instructions.
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Myth three: Oral weight-increasing health products or drugs can increase your child's height
At present, the market is full of a large number of health products and even drugs that sell at the increase. Its main ingredients are essential amino acids, vitamins, calcium, etc. for the human body, and may also contain androgens, Chinese herbal ingredients, which can only play a supporting role or short-term effect, androgens taken for a long time may also lead to premature closure of the epiphysis, female virilization and other side effects, but is not conducive to the child's final height. Growth hormone is currently internationally recognized as the only effective drug to promote height growth, most of the health care products on the market are not clear, parents must be cautious about the use.
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Myth four: After a clear diagnosis by a doctor, with growth hormone, you will be able to grow taller
While growth hormone can help improve your child's height, not all children will achieve the desired results with it. The efficacy of growth hormone is affected by a variety of factors, including diagnosis, age at which treatment is started, height at which treatment is started, dosage, medication adherence, lifestyle habits, and so on. Many parents in particular will enter such a misunderstanding that "children will grow taller quickly after using growth hormone", which is unrealistic. Changes in your child's height are a relatively slow process, and you should follow up regularly during treatment to assess and, if the effect is not satisfactory, you should work with your doctor to analyze possible causes.
Without growth hormone, is there a way to grow taller? Of course!!!
60% of a child's height comes from heredity, 40% from acquired efforts, and the following is what to do the day after tomorrow:
Exercise: Proper exercise, especially longitudinal exercises such as skipping rope, playing basketball and various stretching exercises, etc. can help children's height, but avoid weight-bearing strength training to avoid sports injuries.
Nutrition: Uneven intake of nutrients, insufficient will inevitably limit the height of children, daily diet, staple foods, lean meat, milk, fruits and vegetables are indispensable.
Sleep: In the increasing pressure of learning, sleep is the most likely to be ignored or sacrificed by parents. The peak of growth hormone secretion is from 10 o'clock at night to 2 am, 5 am to 7 am, during which adequate sleep is very important, long-term late sleep is bound to affect the normal secretion of growth hormone and affect the height of the child.
Source: Yu Jingjie, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University
Review: Wang Lan
Editor: Wang Xiaoli
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