As an endocrinologist, many parents bring their children to see the growth and development problems every year. It is my bounden duty to help children grow up healthily. Every time the children come, they proudly tell me how many centimeters they have grown. I think this is the great happiness that this job brings me.
However, I often encounter such a situation. After the child is diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency, it is recommended to use growth hormone for treatment. When some parents are exposed to growth hormone for the first time, they will question whether this strange drug can really help their children grow taller. Some parents refused treatment and chose to go home to observe, but the growth rate of children has been lagging behind. When the parents couldn't help but bring back the visit again, they found that the child's epiphysis was closed and there was no way to treat it again. I still remember my parents' expressions of regret.
20 12 A little girl came to my clinic. Her mother called her Little Bean. Xiaodouzi is 5 years and 7 months old and only 93.8cm tall. If you are a stranger who doesn't know the situation, you will probably think that he is a child of two or three years old.
Mom said that when Xiaodou was about 3 years old, she found that Xiaodou was obviously the shortest among children of the same age. But because the child is still young, I don't care much. He thinks that children are probably lacking in nutrition. He has changed ways to make children eat and drink more, and tried some remedies recommended by people around him. However, after two busy years, there is no improvement. Seeing the growing height gap between adzuki bean and children of the same age, I quickly took my children to see a doctor.
We arranged a series of tests for adzuki bean, and the results showed that it was diagnosed as a typical growth hormone deficiency (GHD). Mother Doudou was a little flustered when she heard of growth hormone deficiency. She said that Doudou just looks short, and there seems to be nothing unusual in other places.
This is also the first reaction of many parents. In order to solve this problem, we need to know something about growth hormone.