How does growth hormone treat dwarfism?

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For patients with dwarfism, dwarfism has a great impact on their psychology. Many patients with dwarfism usually have inferiority complex. For different patients with dwarfism, the use of growth hormone should also be under the correct guidance of the doctor, and the drug should not be stopped without authorization. Only in this way can the treatment effect be more obvious, In addition, during the treatment, parents should not be too anxious and blindly pursue height, ignoring the child's psychological problems. Height and health are the most important, so how to treat growth hormone? Let's share it.

How does growth hormone treat dwarfism?

At present, growth hormone is used to treat dwarfism. The goal is to make children catch up with the growth of normal children, maintain the normal growth rate, win the opportunity of rapid growth in adolescence, and finally reach the normal height of adults. Growth hormone is a safe and effective treatment drug, and the earlier the treatment starts, the better the treatment effect will be. If at the beginning of treatment, the epiphysis of children has been closed, and then growth hormone treatment basically has no obvious effect.

However, not all short stature can be treated with growth hormone, and the treatment of short stature depends on its etiology. Growth hormone is effective in the treatment of GHD, but there is no definite report on the effect of growth hormone in the treatment of dwarfism caused by familial dwarfism, constitutional growth retardation, congenital genetic diseases or various growth disorders. Therefore, short children can not blindly use hormone therapy, we must first clarify the cause of their short, and then symptomatic treatment.

The potency of growth hormone is relatively poor. At this time, continuous treatment is prone to side effects due to bone age. Of course, some people think that patients with growth hormone deficiency and sexual dysfunction can stop taking the drug when they are a little bit away from their final height. The reason is that the epiphysis of such patients often heal late. Although the growth rate is slow after stopping the treatment, they can still grow properly.

matters needing attention

For short stature patients with growth hormone treatment of short stature to be careful, must be the right medicine, if any use, or even beyond the instructions, indications of medication, this will bring a very big impact on the child's body, there will be adverse reactions, so we must be in the correct guidance of medical students to use drug treatment.