What is the therapy of growth hormone?
Therapy of growth hormonal therapy is the use of human growth hormone to induce growth in patients with an abnormally low figure or for other medical reasons. Usually, growth hormone therapy is used to treat growth hormone deficiencies, but can also be used to treat other conditions, resulting in a small figure. It is also used to treat the syndrome of the acquired immune deficiency (AIDS), obesity, large burns and controversially to slow down the aging process and to increase athletic performance. It is responsible for normal growth and reproduction of cells. If the pituitary does not create enough growth hormone, one will not grow to the full height of adults. Growth hormonal therapy therapy is most commonly used in children with lack of growth hormone. While the growth hormone for therapeutic purposes was once extracted from human pituitary gland, it is now synthesized through a recombinant technology in which human genes are inserted into bacteria, which then produce hormon.
In addition to the lack of human growth hormone, the conditions characterized by insufficient growth, which was treated with growth hormone therapy, include chromosomal disorders such as Turner syndrome, Noonan syndrome and Prader-Willi syndrome; intrauterine retardation of growth or low birth weight; idiopathic short figure or inexplicable growth failure to normal height; and a short figure caused by chronic kidney failure. Posttransplant growth failure, intersections, growth damage due to inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease also benefit from growth hormone therapy in addition to traditional treatment.
More controversial, growth hormones therapy was used to slow down the normal aging process and to increase athletic performance and increase muscle mass. It has not been shown that growth -hormonal therapy is useful for such goals and there are a number of side effects with such use. These include sealing or fluids, joint pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, high blood pressure, diabetes and gynomastics, enlargement of the mammary gland in men.
Therapy of growth hormonal therapy for children is not associated with so many side effects and is considered relatively safe. Although side effects are rare in children, they are potentially serious. Some of the same side effects experienced by adults, including swelling, joint pain and carpal tunnel syndrome, can affect children undergoing growth hormone therapy, but much lower. One side effect, especially for children, is a slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) in which the head of the femur or femur separates from the shaft, causing the hip pain. Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC), neurological disorder causing headaches, nausea and visual abnormalities, occurs in approximately one of 100 cases of pediatricrapy growth hormonal, but interruption of therapy usuallythe conditions reverse.