When it comes to their child's height, there is no parent who is not anxious.
Especially for parents with low height, they hope that their children can break through "genetics" and grow taller!
But even if you do all the efforts you can make the day after tomorrow, any exercise, sleep, nutrition, calcium supplementation, etc., are slow to work, and the child may not be able to persevere.
If at this time, there is a "height increase cheat", which is authoritatively certified, the case is sufficient, and the effect is remarkable, the child only needs to take one injection a month to grow more than ten centimeters.
As a parent, are you not impressed?
And this "needle" is the so-called sexual suppression needle!
1. What are sexual suppression injections?
This is a common name, the scientific name is gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue, which binds to the GnRH receptor of anterior pituitary gonadotropins to reduce gonadal hormone secretion, thereby controlling the child's sexual development process, delaying bone maturation, and improving the final adult height.
For example:
We all know that a person's height grows the fastest during puberty. So here, we call the height before puberty, tentatively called "basal height".
That if a child starts to develop from the age of 10 and enters puberty. Height before the age of 10 is the basic height, such as 140 cm.
After entering puberty, it grows another 30 centimeters, and the total height adds up to 170 centimeters.
However, if the baby is given a sexual suppression injection, the child's sexual development process is delayed, and the child develops later than 10 years old, such as 12 years old.
Isn't that just two more years to grow taller, and the base height may grow to 150 centimeters.
At this time, with the addition of 30 centimeters of puberty, the total height comes to 180 centimeters, and the child's final adult height is changed.
This is the underlying logic of many parents giving their children sexual inhibition injections.
But is this logic correct? If things were really that simple, wouldn't they be all over the place? The reason why there is no comprehensive rollout is that sexual suppression injections are more expensive?
2. Only when you are sick can you give the baby a beating!
That's right! While the title is straightforward, that's exactly what it is.
Sex suppression injections are really useful and can make children grow taller. But it's a drug! There are clear indications! It is the standard drug for the treatment of central precocious puberty.
The picture shows a screenshot of the content of the "Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Central Precocious Puberty (2022)".
And what is central precocious puberty? What are the diagnostic criteria?
To put it simply, central precocious puberty is the early development of the child. Continuing with the previous example:
If the child's normal age of development is 10 years old, the child with central precocious puberty may advance to the age of 6, 7, etc., and the child's bones will mature early, and the total time to grow taller will be shortened, which will affect the child's final height and mental health.
At this time, sexual inhibition injections are used to delay the child's developmental age, so that the child can develop normally at a normal time and have a normal height growth time, so as to produce the effect of growing taller.
The current diagnostic criteria for central precocious puberty are:
(1) Sexual characteristics appear in advance. That is, breast development before the age of 7.5 years or menarche before the age of 10 years in girls, and testicular enlargement before the age of 9 years in boys.
(2) Enlargement of gonads. That is, pelvic ultrasound showed that the volume of the uterus and ovaries of the girl was enlarged, and multiple follicles with a diameter of ≥4mm could be seen in the ovaries; The testicular volume of boys ≥ 4 ml.
(3) Serum gonadotropins and sex hormones reach pubertal levels.
(4) Most of them have bone age in advance, and bone age exceeds the actual age ≥ 1 year.
(5) There was linear growth acceleration, and the annual growth rate was higher than that of healthy children of the same age.
If parents observe the first physical manifestations of their child, they should be vigilant and take the child to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.
Doctors will draw conclusions based on the results of a series of tests to distinguish them from other diseases. Because the child's sexual characteristics appear early, it is not necessarily central precocious puberty, and there may be other diseases.
When the final diagnosis is central precocious puberty, the child will be considered for sexual suppression injections.
For children with normal development, there is no need for sexual suppression injections at all, and even if you have this need, the hospital will not prescribe it to you.
However, in some institutions or intermediaries other than hospitals, you can get multiple days' worth of medicine with a prescription. But who bears the risk? Will it be these institutions?
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The adverse effects of the drug itself, as well as the risks during use, will fall on the heads of children and parents.
3. Adverse reactions cannot be ignored!
According to the Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Central Precocious Puberty (2022), rashes, flushing, and headaches occasionally occur during the treatment of sexual suppression injections, but these conditions are usually short-lived and mild, and do not affect the treatment.
In addition, sporadic adverse effects were reported such as convulsions, prolonged Q-T interval, slipped femoral head, and pituitary apoplexy.
Therefore, during the treatment process, sexual development, growth rate, etc. should be monitored every 3 months; Bone age is measured semi-annually; Gonadotropins and sex hormone levels should also be monitored to assess hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis suppression.
The picture shows a screenshot of the content of the "Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Central Precocious Puberty (2022)".
Including when to stop the injection, it needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, and there is no unified standard.
Therefore, those children who are developing normally but need to be injected with sexual suppression injections not only cannot detect the adverse reactions of the drug itself normally, but also cannot be scientifically dealt with when the drug is stopped.
Some studies have even found that if the use of sexual suppression injections is continued after the age of 11, not only will it not increase the adult height, but may decrease.
And the most fundamental focus is:
Sexual suppression injections are a kind of medicine that is used to cure diseases!
Children who are developing normally and are not sick, so why get injections?
Usually take some cold medicine, use some hormone medicine, everyone is cautious, afraid of affecting the child's development, how did they get here, and become bold?
Of course, we also understand that children's height anxiety does affect many parents. It is not wrong to wish for your child to grow taller!
It's just that in the face of complex information on the market, everyone loves their children, and it is easy to step on the pit and do bad things with good intentions.
So in today's article, I hope to give some comfort to parents with height anxiety, and I also hope that everyone will take a safer way to help their children grow taller.
Such as exercise, sleep, nutrition, etc. Although it is slow, it grows day by day, and these methods must be persisted day by day to see the effect!
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