Pediatricians generally recommend the kind of medicine that is easy for children to accept as well as for parents to handle; don't consider taking it three times a day if you only take it once a day, and try to avoid the bitterness of traditional medicines if you can opt for fruit flavors. Returning to growth hormone, a product that requires daily injections, we believe that the choice of injection device should also be evaluated.
Master's degree student, member of the Pediatrics Section of the Chinese Medical Association? Chen Yongxing, Deputy Director, Department of Endocrinology and Genetic Metabolism, Henan Children's Hospital
Q: What are the main injection devices for growth hormone? What kind of injection device is more suitable for children?
A: Although we and our patients are looking forward to the introduction of oral products, at this stage, growth hormone therapy still requires subcutaneous injections to be effective, so it is very important to choose an injection device that is suitable for children.
The main types of injection devices on the market include disposable syringes, disposable prefilled syringes, mechanical injection pens, and electronic injection pens with hidden needles. Children are relatively young and have a weaker tolerance and a stronger fear of needles, and daily injections are undoubtedly a huge challenge for both children and their parents. For growth hormone therapy we have always emphasized compliance, that is, continuous medication without interruption, so getting the child to be willing to accept daily injections is a critical issue, and it is recommended that when parents select growth hormone products, they should also be attentive to selecting an injection device that is suitable for their child. For example, whether the child can smoothly accept the injection is a crucial step in the treatment; for example, if the needle is shorter and thinner, the pain of injection will be reduced; also, if the number of injections is reduced, the child's cooperation will naturally be higher; in addition, most of the time the growth hormone is still operated by the parents or the child himself/herself at home, so the convenience and safety of the operation process is also a problem that parents need to consider, for example, whether the electronic Therefore, the convenience and safety of the operation process is also an issue that parents need to consider, such as whether electronic operation can more effectively avoid human errors and so on. In short, we hope to see the development and innovation of injection devices specifically for children, so as to effectively eliminate the fear of injections, keep children away from pain, and facilitate long-term treatment to obtain satisfactory height.
This is true, as growth hormone has evolved, so have the injection devices, which are now being gradually upgraded to electronic products. After searching for information, we have found a simple comparison of the parameters of a few injection devices that are more commonly used with growth hormone medications on the market for parents to choose from.
Comparison of growth hormone injection devices
Knock on the blackboard: the clinical application of growth hormone can only be administered by subcutaneous injection; from the point of view of the injection devices on the market, the hidden-needle electronic injection pen is more suitable for children to use, the hidden needle is shorter, finer and safer, and the electronic operation is more convenient to use, and the child can also be injected by themselves.