The deficiency of growth hormone can lead to short height especially among children. This deficiency can be treated with the help of HGH injections which can help a great deal in improving the height of a child though the results vary from person to person. HGH deficiency, apart from short height, can also lead to delay in the maturation of a child’s skeleton and stunted or slow growth among them.
Children with deficiency of growth hormone not only suffer from slow growth but also become a subject of mockery among their counterparts. Due to this reason the parents of such children seem worried and look for ways to improve their condition. HGH injections are usually prescribed by doctors in such a situation. According to doctors the best time for giving this injection is before they achieve pubertal age since the efficiency of these injections diminishes after the pubertal age. The reason why it is recommended before the pubertal age is the fact that the bones of the child fuse during pubertal age which results in decreasing efficiency of these HGH injections.
Recent studies conducted on children suffering from short height due to growth hormones deficiency showed that the effect of HGH injection was high in those cases where these injections were given at a very early age. Also, those children who were very short when HGH injection was given to them are the ones who experienced a great improvement in their height. Thus we can say that the effect of HGH injections vary in different situations.
Apart from growth hormone deficiency, HGH injection has proved successful in retardation caused due to intrauterine growth. In such cases giving these injections as soon as the child reaches five years of age can help them improve the height. Though one needs to remember that these injections help in increasing their height but they are still not able to achieve the same height as their counterparts and are thus considered short in comparison. Also, the results of these HGH injections vary from person to person. However, short height due to reasons other than growth hormone deficiency can not be treated with HGH injections.
HGH injections have also been proved successful in improving the short height of a girl where the cause was Turner syndrome. This has been shown by a study conducted on a number of girls suffering from this syndrome. One needs to be very careful in taking these injections as this can also result in retention of fluid, slipped capital epiphysis, carpal tunnel syndrome and pseudotumor cerebri.
Apart from this, there are other factors as well which are related to HGH injections being given to children who have short height due to the deficiency of growth hormone. One such factor is that this injection is very expensive and the complete treatment can cost quite a big amount.
To conclude, we can say that HGH injections can help treat the short stature in particular medical conditions such as deficiency of growth hormone but need to be used with precautions.