Introduction
Human Growth Hormone is one of the major hormone found in the endocrine system in the body. It is an essential hormone that stimulates the body growth, normal brain function and secreted by the somatotropin cells in the anterior pituitary gland. There is a condition of abnormal body grow such as pituitary gigantism and pituitary dwarfism which the body over create grow hormone or doesn’t create enough GH. Another name for pituitary dwarfism is growth hormone deficiency. According to the Children’s Health study, the estimate between one in 14,000 and one in 27,000 babies born each year have some of the growth hormone deficiencies that cause dwarfism. This disorder is mostly seen in children than adults depends on genetic and some …show more content…
There is some advantage of taking growth hormone that can impact the body responds to insulin, which controls blood glucose levels. And the effect of not taking growth hormone can lead to high cholesterol and osteoporosis (Toft 2015). The study from Children’s Health claims that “kids who take growth hormone injections typically grow 4 or more inches over the first year of treatment, and over the next 2 years, they can grow 3 or more inches.” However, if GH therapy is not given before the growth plates of the long bones, such as the legs and arms fuse, the growth hormone injection will not impact for the treatment or will result in unsuccessful treatment. It is generally better to start the GH replacement therapy for the child at earlier ages (Toft 2015). Unfortunately, some researcher claims that the rate of growth slowly begins to decrease after the kids taking growth hormone when they reach puberty. Another treatment for pituitary dwarfism is mental and emotional therapy (Toft 2015). Because being dwarfism can be challenging for the kids at the school for their peers might tease them. Therefore it is also important to see a mental health counselor or psychologist who can talk and guide you how to face with the situation. The other treatment is getting enough sleep, eating a balanced diet, and regularly exercising. These might help your pituitary to produce the growth hormone regularly. Unfortunately, there is not a well-known treatment or prevention of this pituitary dwarfism disorder (Toft
Human Growth Hormone is one of the major hormone found in the endocrine system in the body. It is an essential hormone that stimulates the body growth, normal brain function and secreted by the somatotropin cells in the anterior pituitary gland. There is a condition of abnormal body grow such as pituitary gigantism and pituitary dwarfism which the body over create grow hormone or doesn’t create enough GH. Another name for pituitary dwarfism is growth hormone deficiency. According to the Children’s Health study, the estimate between one in 14,000 and one in 27,000 babies born each year have some of the growth hormone deficiencies that cause dwarfism. This disorder is mostly seen in children than adults depends on genetic and some …show more content…
There is some advantage of taking growth hormone that can impact the body responds to insulin, which controls blood glucose levels. And the effect of not taking growth hormone can lead to high cholesterol and osteoporosis (Toft 2015). The study from Children’s Health claims that “kids who take growth hormone injections typically grow 4 or more inches over the first year of treatment, and over the next 2 years, they can grow 3 or more inches.” However, if GH therapy is not given before the growth plates of the long bones, such as the legs and arms fuse, the growth hormone injection will not impact for the treatment or will result in unsuccessful treatment. It is generally better to start the GH replacement therapy for the child at earlier ages (Toft 2015). Unfortunately, some researcher claims that the rate of growth slowly begins to decrease after the kids taking growth hormone when they reach puberty. Another treatment for pituitary dwarfism is mental and emotional therapy (Toft 2015). Because being dwarfism can be challenging for the kids at the school for their peers might tease them. Therefore it is also important to see a mental health counselor or psychologist who can talk and guide you how to face with the situation. The other treatment is getting enough sleep, eating a balanced diet, and regularly exercising. These might help your pituitary to produce the growth hormone regularly. Unfortunately, there is not a well-known treatment or prevention of this pituitary dwarfism disorder (Toft