Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) have approved growth hormone as an effective drug to improve the height of short children. Clinically, if growth hormone is used for treatment within the indications of growth hormone under the guidance of professional doctors in regular hospitals, the effect of improving the child's height is very satisfactory. For example, when children with growth hormone deficiency are treated with growth hormone, most children can grow 10-12cm in the first year, and then basically grow about 7-8cm every year; for children who are small for gestational age, early use of growth hormone treatment , usually can grow about 8-10cm per year, effectively helping children catch up with their height.
By comparing the child's height growth rate before and after growth hormone treatment, we can determine whether growth hormone treatment is effective. Of course, parents need to be reminded that growth hormone injections cannot produce immediate results. This is unrealistic and not in line with the laws of nature. Usually, in order to monitor the efficacy and safety, the doctor will ask for a reexamination after 3 months of treatment. If the child has grown more than 2cm in 3 months, it means that the child's height growth effect is very good. However, the therapeutic effect of growth hormone is often most significant 6 to 12 months after the start of treatment. Therefore, if you want to evaluate the efficacy of growth hormone in children, it is recommended to do it after 6 months of treatment.
Although the overall efficacy of growth hormone in treating Yingchun's short stature is good, there are certain individual differences in the specific number of centimeters that different children grow after using growth hormone. This involves factors affecting the efficacy of growth hormone. One: type of disease. Different types of diseases have certain differences in the therapeutic effects of growth hormone. Children with growth hormone deficiency usually have better growth effects. Second: the age at the start of treatment and the child's bone age. The younger the child is at the time of treatment and the younger the bone age, the stronger the ability of growth hormone to promote cartilage cell division and proliferation, and the better the growth effect. Third: the level of compliance. The higher the child's compliance with treatment, the better the coordination of diet, exercise, and sleep, and the better the growth effect. In fact, once a child starts treatment, the first two influencing factors are beyond the control of parents. What parents can do is try to help their children improve their compliance with treatment, so as to better ensure the effect of treatment.
