Messi was born in a family that loves football. " You will become the best football player in the world in the future ", grandmother said to the young Messi, and from then on, this sentence planted a seed in Messi's heart.
However, Messi, who has always been eager to play in the football field, has never had a football team to ask for him because he is too short. When Messi grows to 11 years old, he is still only 1.4m in height. The normal-height parents felt that their son shouldn't be so short, so they took Messi to the hospital for examination. The results of
check confirmed that he suffered from growth hormone deficiency , which is a type of dwarfism that is often called. However, the cost of treatment is as high as $900 per month, and families cannot afford the high cost of treatment for a long time.
Gakioli is Messi's first professional manager. He can see that Messi has the talent to play football. Although he is small, he runs fast on the court. The ball basically does not leave his feet. He is an extremely rare type of player. He decided to bear the cost of Messi's treatment and let Messi enter his football team to play.
After a year of treatment, Messi's height has increased by 16 cm. He then played for Barcelona's first team and won excellent results. Later, he went out with the team and swept the championship of many teams, becoming one of the best players in the history of world football.
Many parents will worry that their children will grow too short because height is crucial to appearance. Let’s not talk about some professions that have requirements for height, but they just need to find a partner. Many people will rank height in the top few.
When some parents find that their children are lower than their peers, they are as anxious as ants on a hot pan, busy supplementing their children with calcium and urging their children to perform various exercises that can increase height like . In addition, some products with the word "enhanced" on and some products on Taobao sold extremely high sales, while some growth capsules of only contain some vitamin D and other calcium supplement products sold for tens of thousands.
Generally speaking, factors that affect height include genetic factors, endocrine factors, nutritional factors, environmental factors such as insufficient sunshine, insufficient outdoor activities, etc.
Among them, 70% to 80% of the reasons why children are short in depend on their genetic background. As we all know, heredity is a congenital factor and is difficult to change. Therefore, many people who want to grow taller will start with acquired factors such as nutritional factors and environmental factors, such as calcium supplementation, basketball, etc. The height caused by endocrine factors is too short because the patient lacks growth hormone in his body, which can be increased through medical treatment.
Is the child not tall? Is it because he lacks growth hormone?
At this time, parents will have some doubts. How do you know that is not tall because of auxin deficiency?
Medical experts say that growth hormone deficiency is an endocrine disease, which refers to the disorder of growth hormone secretion due to congenital or acquired reasons. The characteristic of this disease is that the child's overall growth and development lags behind and his height is small.
Li Yuchuan, deputy chief physician of the endocrine genetic metabolism major in Beijing Children's Hospital, recommends that parents pay more attention to their children's height and growth rate. If the height of children under 3 years old increases below 7 cm every year, the height of children aged 3 to 10 is below 5 cm every year. If the height of children aged 3 to 10 is increased below 5 cm every year, and the height of children adolescent (boys 10 to 14 years old and girls 10 to 12 years old) increases below 6 cm every year, beware of short stature.
Patients with growth hormone deficiency may be in their twenties and still have the appearance of a 10-year-old child aged 6 or 7. If treatment is not performed, their lifespan will be shorter than that of a normal person.
In addition to height, it can also pass professional medical test methods. If you find that your child's height meets the above symptoms, it is necessary to go to the hospital to check the child's auxin level.
Since the secretion of human growth hormone is regulated by a variety of neural and humoral factors, some exercise tests, sleep tests and drug tests will be used to check the level of growth hormone in the human body.
The principle of these experiments is that normal people secrete growth hormones more at night than during the day, sleep more than when they wake up, especially after falling asleep 45-90 minutes, the secretion reaches its peak. The sympathetic nerves are excited during exercise, and the increased levels of adrenaline and norepinephrine in the blood will also promote the secretion of growth hormone.
In addition, it should be noted that not every patient with short height due to growth hormone deficiency can undergo growth hormone therapy. Generally speaking, a series of examinations are required before treatment, and parents can take their children to the endocrinology department for a series of diagnosis.
Endocrine specialist Chief physician Zhang Longjiang proposed that it is best for parents not to buy auxin for their children to treat them by themselves, and some necessary examinations are required:
) Bone age
) Fasting blood sugar, insulin, liver and kidney function, GH stimulation test
) Pituitary MRI
) Short girls also need to undergo pelvic ultrasound examination, and chromosomal karyotyping analysis should be performed if necessary
Generally speaking, auxin treatment is the most effective when the child is about ten years old and the bones are not closed. The younger the age at which starts the treatment, the better the efficacy, the longer the treatment time, and the more significant the improvement of adult height. During the treatment process, the dose should be adjusted appropriately based on the child's growth condition and biochemical test results.
Does using growth hormone have side effects on the body?
Many parents are also worried that using auxin will have side effects on the body? Will there be a rumored ash increase the incidence of some diseases such as diabetes and malignant tumors?
Zhang Longjiang, chief physician of the endocrine department of Shenzhen Children's Hospital, said that overall, it is safe to apply growth hormone, and the overall incidence of adverse reactions is less than 3%. The main adverse reactions include: benign intracranial high pressure, the impact of sugar metabolism, hypothyroidism, and bone changes. Long-term growth hormone treatment can increase insulin resistance. Some children experience fasting blood sugar damage and glucose tolerance damage. However, most of them are temporary reversible. will not increase the prevalence of diabetes.
According to current research results, growth hormone treatment will not increase the risk of new malignant tumors in patients without tumors (such as leukemia , central nervous system tumors or extracranial malignant tumors, etc.). For those who have been cured, Growth Cental treatment will not increase the risk of tumor recurrence, and will not affect the recurrence of brain tumors, craniopharyngiomas, and leukemia.
Some parents are "happy" and buy it immediately when they see advertisements and "magic medicines" that can make their children grow taller. Some products say they contain "avagin" in promotion, but at present, only a few domestic companies licensed to sell avaginine. There have been news reports that parents eat avaginine randomly to their children lead to premature puberty. Little do people know that "auxin" is not a "magic medicine" and is not suitable for everyone to use.
Reference materials:
1, "Medical Expert: Growth hormone is not a "magic medicine", and you cannot rely solely on growth hormone to improve your height." Pengpai News. 2019-08-26
2, ""Little one" suffers from rare diseases "not growing up" troubles life". Tongling News Network. 2016-11-15
