Contents:
- Medical Video: Delayed puberty - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, pathology
- Sexual hormone therapy
- Growth hormone therapy
Medical Video: Delayed puberty - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, pathology
Often, parents take their children to the doctor for fear that they may not get signs of puberty. Do not worry. In most cases, doctors can usually confirm that your child's growth is normal, or maybe puberty has begun but it is not yet clear. Checking with your doctor will calm you not only but also your child who might be worried because the other friends are already puberty first.
Sexual hormone therapy
In rare situations, after a thorough diagnosis, the pediatrician can recommend a few months of hormone therapy, to give boys and girls a boost in sexual maturity. Candidates for hormone therapy can include adolescents who have shown signs of early puberty but not yet thoroughly. Another consideration is that if puberty is too late it has an impact on the emotional and social life of the child.
Boys will receive testosterone injections and girls will be given estrogen and progesterone tablets. The dosage is adjusted to the level of sexual hormones which are usually produced by the body of a teenager This hormone functions only to be fishing until the puberty process then continues itself without the help of additional hormones.
Growth hormone therapy
Another chemical produced by the brain's pituitary gland is growth hormone. Some pituitary glands in adolescents have too little secretion. This condition, called hypopituarism, inhibits growth. Injection of synthetic growth hormones can help thousands of people reach adult height.
Initially, it was believed that only people with endogenous growth hormone levels could respond to growth hormone therapy.
But products now benefit young people who undergo kidney dialysis as long as they wait for kidney transplants, as well as teens with Turner syndrome. Girls with Turner syndrome produce growth hormones, but their bodies reject them.
Then, can we add a few centimeters in height and ask the doctor for growth hormone? There are several instances where parents request treatment for growth hormone that is not suitable for children. Growth hormone treatment is only given to children who have been shown to have a lack of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.
In addition to hypopituaritism, chronic kidney failure, and Turner syndrome, the use of growth hormone is considered investigational. Insurance companies will notcover trial treatment, and 6 or 7 injections per week for 4-5 days is very expensive.
Another factor is that, although short-term treatments produce very few side effects, synthetic growth hormones have only been sold to the market since the mid-1980s, and little is known about their long-term effects, so their use should only be used for medical conditions.
In addition, heredity is a determinant that has more influence on height than synthetic growth hormones. So, if a child wants to have a height of 180 cm, if his parents are short, chances are he will also be short due to genetic factors.
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