9-year-old girl to increase height to play "sexual inhibition needle" for half a year to spend 100,000: shorter than peers, can you play?

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Recently, the topic of #9-year-old girl playing sexual inhibition injections spent half a year to spend 100,000 # rushed to the hot search:

Because the daughter's menarche comes early and the space for growing tall is limited, parents finally decide to inhibit the child's sexual development through injections for the height of the child, so as to win the time for the child to grow tall.

And this will take about two years, nearly 200,000 yuan of treatment costs, even if the child may only grow 2 centimeters tall in the end.

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The most surprising thing is not how much money it costs, but how crazy the height anxiety of parents is in the following discussion!

"Can my child play growth hormone for more than 1 meter 7?" Too short I don't want my kids to be discriminated against. ”

Seeing this hot search, the director felt the need to carry out a science popularization: can growth hormone be played? Is it an IQ tax, can you really grow taller?

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What is growth hormone

Growth hormone is a hormone secreted by our pituitary gland, which stimulates the growth of bones and thus promotes the growth of height, while the clinical growth hormone drug is synthesized by biosynthetic technology and is known as the "heightening needle".

Growth hormone was originally intended to treat children who are short due to pathology, such as growth hormone deficiency, Turner syndrome, idiopathic short stature, small-for-gestational-age children and other diseases.

But in the height anxiety of parents, medical representatives and advertising hype, growth hormone has been given as a "miracle drug", forming a misconception that as long as you fight, you can grow taller.

In fact, growth hormone is a prescription drug with strict indications, which should be used by pediatric endocrinologists with professional basic knowledge and clinical experience after diagnosis and evaluation, and occasional monitoring is required in the later stage.

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How to use growth hormone

1. Under what circumstances do I need to take HGH?

Director, I think our children are so short, I want ta to grow to 1 meter 8, how about some growth hormone?

There are many factors in the shortness of the child, suspect that the child is short, the first thing we need to do is to go to a professional hospital for test diagnosis and see what causes the child to be short. If you are short stature due to growth hormone deficiency or developmental delay, you can carry out growth hormone injection therapy under the guidance of a doctor, and the final treatment effect, that is, the ability to grow a few centimeters taller, varies from person to person and is not guaranteed.

For children who are short due to non-growth hormone deficiency, growth hormone injections have little therapeutic effect. The concept of "what are the side effects compared to shortness" is not advisable!

Although growth hormone is generally safe and effective, there are still some adverse reactions.

After consulting the relevant literature, the Director found that growth hormone may cause benign cranial hypertension, affect glucose metabolism, hypothyroidism, enlarged hands and feet, local redness and rash, otitis media, and may also promote the growth of existing or potential tumors. In general, growth hormone is used to treat diseases and must be used under the guidance of a professional doctor.

2. Can normal children grow short enough to play growth hormone?

For children with normal development, if they just want to break through heredity and want to "grow tall", it is not recommended to take growth hormone injections.

First, there will be endocrine disorders, femoral head slippage, scoliosis and other health risks [1], the second is extremely high cost, growth hormone is known as the "Maotai" in medicine, playing a long-acting agent per capita needs more than 150,000 yuan per year, which is not what the average family can bear.

Moreover, growth hormone is a "poison" for people whose bones have been closed, and there is literature that indicates that growth hormone is contraindicated in patients with closed epiphyseals.

So how do parents know if their children's bones are closed? This requires measuring bone age.

3. Is bone age measurement an IQ tax? Is there a need to do it?

Bone age measurement is not an IQ tax!

It is a common tool recognized by pediatricians by the American Pediatric Association to understand whether there are abnormalities in children's regular height, weight, and secondary sexual characteristics, and to assess the degree of development.

However, whether the child needs to do a bone age test or not needs to be diagnosed by a professional pediatrician.

In daily life, how should parents judge whether their children have abnormal growth and development, and then hang up an endocrinologist to measure bone age?

Look at height

For example, children develop very slowly for a long time, and parents do not see any obvious changes.

Secondly, the child is too tall or too short compared to the same age, then the parents should pay attention to it, take the child to see the child care doctor consultation.

Look at the degree of sexual development

Precocious puberty: boys have enlarged penis and testicles before the age of 9, voice changes, protruding laryngeal knots, long beards, long pubic hair and axillary hairs; girls have enlarged breasts before the age of 8, swelling and pain, and long pubic hair and axillary hair.

Late puberty: Girls turn 13 years old and boys turn 14 years old and still don't have any secondary sexual characteristics or develop slowly.

Usually parents record the child's height and physical development of the small book at this time came in handy, of course, there is no small book of parents do not worry, the back of the director put a height table, you can check for a reference.

4. Precautions after taking HGH

After the child has received the growth hormone injection, it is also necessary to monitor regularly in order to observe the physical condition and adverse reactions, and there are generally several aspects that need to be monitored:

Source: Do it yourself [2]

Therefore, it is not taken for granted that HGH injections require a doctor's diagnostic evaluation in the early stage and close safety monitoring in the later stage.

Short children, themselves will face the ridicule of their peers, but also want to grow taller urgently, so as parents, we should not express our anxiety too much in front of our children.

At the same time, we must do a good job of comforting our children. During the treatment, the child has to put needles on the body almost every day, and the physical pain can be imagined.

Only when parents calm their minds can children be treated with peace of mind.

Excluding the short stature of the disease class, for normal development but short children, if we are really worried that the child's height is not up to standard, we may wish to dig a little more in diet, exercise, and sleep.

How? Take a look at the introduction below.

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Grow tall scientific posture

1. Maintain balanced and adequate dietary nutrition

Parents can refer to the Dietary Pagoda of the Chinese Nutrition Society for daily feeding.

★ Within 6 months of age

★ 7-24 months of age

★ 2-5 years old

Source: Chinese Nutrition Society

The 2022 edition of the Dietary Pagoda has updated a meal plate, and people over 2 years old can plan their meal proportions and allocation according to this structure.

Source: Chinese Nutrition Society

2. Reasonable scientific movement

Studies have shown that there are three golden periods for children's growth and development:

★ Infantile (0-3 years): 25 cm growth in the first year of life.

★ Childhood (3 years old - adolescence): can grow 5 to 7 cm taller per year.

★ Puberty: Boys can grow by 28 to 30 cm in height and 25-28 cm in girls.

Seize these three golden periods of growth and height, let the child move more, which is conducive to the healthy development of bones.

According to the Recommendations of the World Health Organization, children aged 3-5 years should exercise for at least 3 hours a day, and children and adolescents aged 6-17 years need at least 60 minutes of moderate to high-intensity aerobic exercise per day.

Athletic arrangements for all ages:

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Note! Parents should not force their children to exercise and increase the amount of activity, the exercise intensity is too high, but it will increase the child's joint burden and inhibit the secretion of growth hormone.

3. Ensure the length of sleep every day

Parents do not need to force their children to go to bed early, but the daily sleep time must be enough, sleep helps the secretion of growth hormone:

★Sleep about 11-14 hours a day before the age of 3.

★3-12 years old sleep about 10 hours a day.

★Sleep about 8 hours a day after the age of 12.

4. Standard height table for all ages

This is the director of the standard height table of boys and girls of all ages, parents can check the height development of children according to the data in the table, if the numerical deviation is too large, it is recommended to take the child to the hospital for examination, so as not to close the bones and miss the time to grow tall.

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Growth hormone is not a flood beast, without seeing it and brainlessly criticizing, but it is also not a "ten complete supplement pill", you can fight if you want.

The director understands the height anxiety of parents, but blindly pursuing height will cause psychological pressure on children, which will cause negative effects.

Instead of being too superstitious about height and "raising seedlings" for their children, parents should eat scientifically and exercise reasonably to give their children a healthy physique.

Well, today's Bureau of Investigation will share it here, and we'll see you next time.

Resources:

[1] Xinhua News Agency: "Height Anxiety To Play the "Height Injection"? Dangerous! 》

[2] Chinese Journal of Pediatrics 2013: Recommendations for the Clinical Application of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Pediatrics

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Editor of this issue: Li Zi.