"Doctor, my daughter is 9 years old this year, her chest has begun to develop, I heard that premature menarche in girls will affect height development, I want to consult the doctor is there any way to make the child grow taller?"
"Parents don't worry, take their children for a check first."
Ms. Xu, 43, is a lawyer who values her only daughter because she married late and had children later. No, the 9-year-old daughter is exactly the age at which she should grow, and Ms. Xu changes the way to supplement her daughter's nutrition all day long, wanting the child to grow taller.
However, in the past six months, Ms. Xu found that her daughter's chest had begun to develop, and she had seen on the Internet that the child's menstrual cramps would greatly affect the normal development of height, so she quickly took her daughter to the hospital for examination.
Combined with bone age, ovarian and breast examination, doctors judge it as "central precocious puberty", and predict that there is still 2-3cm growth space (growing to about 160cm). But Ms. Xu did not want her daughter to be troubled by height problems when she grew up, so she further asked the doctor if there were any ways to help her grow taller.
The doctor told Ms. Xu that in addition to natural growth, some parents in the clinic will choose to help their children lift their children through injection inhibitory needles. However, sexual inhibition injections are relatively expensive, costing nearly 100,000 yuan for half a year of continuous injection, so it is recommended that Ms. Xu discuss with her family and children before deciding whether to inject.
The whole family unanimously passed the decision to inject, so the 9-year-old girl insisted on the injection for half a year, spending more than 100,000 yuan...
I believe that many people can't help but sigh when they see this, what kind of needle requires such an expensive cost, and is the injection promotion really reliable? Don't worry, let's move on, and we'll unveil the "expensive" sex suppression needle with you later.
Are Sex Suppression Injections Reliable?
With the continuous development of society and the improvement of people's living standards, more and more people are more and more pursuing external beauty while satisfying basic clothing, food, housing and transportation. Especially in recent years, many parents and friends have begun to pay attention to children's appearance problems such as "straight teeth and height development". Some people may wonder if the teeth are not straight enough to see the obvious contrast effect by wearing braces, but can the injection inhibition needle really be lifted?
Before understanding what a sexual suppression needle is, let's take a look at how human height development changes.
I believe many people know that human height changes are directly related to bone development. In infancy, people's bones are relatively soft, and as they grow older, there will be a "transparent" cartilage between the epiphysis and the backbone - epiphyseal cartilage.
Some people may wonder why this "inconspicuous" epiphyseal cartilage is introduced with a total of 206 bones in the human body? Don't underestimate it, because epiphyseal cartilage plays a vital role in the development of human height.
Studies have found that before puberty, the proliferation and ossification of epiphyseal cartilage are mainly affected by growth hormone, because the secretion of growth hormone is relatively stable, so the growth of epiphyseal cartilage in children is also unhurried and steadily increased.
But after entering puberty, the hypothalamus secretes sex hormones to accelerate bone growth, so we can find that many children around will have a relatively high change during puberty.
However, rapid bone growth is not enough, bone growth also needs to ensure the hardness of bones. In addition to promoting the division of chondrocytes, sex hormones can also accelerate the hardening of epiphyseal cartilage until the epiphyseal cartilage hardening is complete, that is, the child's height stops developing.
Seeing this, perhaps you in front of the screen have understood that if the child's sex hormones are secreted in advance, it will lead to precocious puberty in the child, so that its epiphyseal cartilage will harden prematurely, which greatly affects its height development.
At the beginning of the article, Ms. Xu's children's "central precocious puberty" is caused by premature secretion of sex hormones, so for "central precocious puberty" people, injecting "sexual suppression needles" at the appropriate age can help inhibit the secretion of sex hormones, thereby delaying the hardening time of epiphyseal cartilage.
There are also many parents who are not tall enough, so at the age of 3-5, they will be brought to the hospital for examination and counseling whether they can help increase their height by injecting growth hormone.
In fact, as we have already introduced above, before puberty, the height of children is mainly affected by growth hormone, so if the child can be injected regularly between 5-9 years old growth hormone, it can also be increased.
But here to remind everyone that whether it is "sexual suppression needle" or "growth hormone", it is not casual. After all, this injection may cause stagnation, vaginal bleeding, obesity and so on.
We said above that injection inhibition needles are recommended only when "central precocious puberty" is diagnosed, so what conditions need to be met for injection of growth hormone, which can also play a lifting role?
Who is suitable for HGH injections?
Many parents and friends have been paying close attention to their children's height development problems when they are very young, and even many parents and friends have made an appointment for growth hormone injections for their children in the hospital very early. But did you know that growth hormone is not something that can be beaten if you want to, and if the child does not meet the following conditions, there is no need for injection.
1. The bone suture is not closed
The so-called "bone suture closure" means that the epiphyseal cartilage has been completely ossified and no longer has the ability to continue to grow. As we have learned above, before entering puberty, growth hormone stimulates the epiphyseal cartilage to promote its ossification and growth.
However, when the epiphyseal cartilage is completely ossified, a closed suture will be formed, and it is too late to inject growth hormone or sexual suppression needles, and it will hardly have any effect.
Therefore, it is recommended that parents who intend to inject growth hormone into their children can take X-rays to understand the development of the child's epiphyseal cartilage, combined with the doctor's advice in deciding whether to inject growth hormone.
2. Growth hormone deficiency
In the clinic, many parents and friends have been diagnosed with "growth hormone deficiency" because their children have short stature and abnormal teeth development.
For such special people, if they cannot be actively intervened, it will not only affect the child's height development, but also may leave sequelae (fat deposits in the abdomen, juvenile appearance, etc.).
3. Growth retardation
Every year, the mainland conducts physical examinations for primary and secondary school students, including height, weight, vision, intellectual development and other aspects. If it is found that the child's height, weight and other aspects are much lower than the peers during the physical examination, it is recommended that parents take the child to the hospital for a professional physical examination to determine whether it is growth retardation.
If growth retardation is really found after the examination, parents and friends can combine the child's situation and the doctor's advice to carry out regular growth hormone injections to help solve the child's development problems from the endogenous assistance.
Although the growth hormone and sexual suppression needles introduced above can greatly promote the height development of children, it is clinically recommended that parents pay attention to the small details of life while paying attention to their children's hormone secretion problems. Let's move on to see what can be done to help science grow higher for most ordinary children.
How to increase health science?
Many parents in mainland China are mostly concerned about the influence of genetic, endocrine and other factors on height, but ignore the importance of acquired environmental factors. According to the World Health Organization, if parents and friends can grasp the following points before the child's epiphyseal cartilage is completely ossified, it can play a role in increasing the height to a certain extent.
First of all, scientific exercise is conducive to the development of height.
Through a large number of data experiments, it is known that scientific exercise can stimulate the epiphyseal cartilage area, which is conducive to the proliferation and division of chondrocytes. At the same time, exercise can also stimulate the pituitary gland to secrete growth hormone to a certain extent and promote bone development.
Therefore, it is clinically recommended that parents and friends encourage their children to participate in physical exercise scientifically and unconsciously stimulate the secretion of growth hormone.
But here to remind parents and friends that the exercise mentioned here is to pay attention to scientific ways and methods. If you blindly pursue a large amount of exercise, it may lead to acute trauma, water-electrolyte imbalance and strong rejection in the child, which will be counterproductive.
Secondly, a nutritious diet can also promote the development of height to a certain extent.
Many people may know that "calcium" is an important component of bones, but did you know that? In addition to "calcium", elements such as protein (to increase bone toughness), phosphorus, sodium, magnesium (to maintain bone stiffness) are also essential substances for bone development.
Therefore, if you want to grow bones healthily, you must develop the habit of a balanced and nutritious diet to ensure that you consume enough nutrients for growth and development every day.
In addition, high-quality sleep can also promote tallerness.
Studies have found that after a child falls asleep for one hour, the secretion of growth hormone in the body can reach the highest peak of the day, so if you want the child to increase as much as possible, it is necessary to ensure the quality of the child's sleep, and create a quiet and warm sleep environment for it to ensure that the pituitary gland secretes enough growth hormone at night.
The World Health Organization recommends that adolescents ensure at least 8.5-10 hours of sleep every day to ensure the healthy development of the body.
Summary:
Children's height development has always been a very concerned issue for parents and friends in mainland China, and even many parents take their children to the hospital for growth hormone secretion tests and bone age examinations between the ages of 4-8, worried about missing the best intervention time.
In fact, for most children, as long as they can meet the conditions of scientific exercise, sleep, nutritious diet and other conditions in life, their height can reach the average level of their peers.
Sources:
[1] "Scientific Assessment of Children's Physical Growth and Development", Li Hailiqi; Mao Meng, 2019-10-06