Medicine improves height

Children with heightened growth may be treated by using growth hormones. People who are of normal height should not be greedy to take this medication because of a bad reaction.

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Mature people have synovial cartilage strips, height can be improved with proper medication and diet.

Children are low due to lack of growth hormone

Growth hormone (GH) produced by the pituitary gland causes bone to grow in length (femur, lower leg). Without it, children will have a more modest height than their peers. The use of GH during the first year of treatment is quite clear. In children with normal thyroid gland, if the diagnosis of early treatment is accompanied by a good diet, the height will reach normal levels (according to genetics).

In the past, people used GH naturally from the dead, each treatment lasted for tens of years, both lack of initiative and costly (about 100,000 USD). In addition, if using natural GH, after about 10-15 years, porous brain disease, mad cow will appear.

Today, by recombinant methods, people have created artificial GHs that make treatment more proactive, not dangerous, less expensive. However, it must be a high-income person to accept. Before treatment, the level of GH in the blood must be measured to determine if the child actually has the disease. This is an expensive, high-tech test.

When used short-term, GH can cause fluid retention, swelling, swelling of the fingers, carpal tunnel syndrome, sometimes causing headaches, drowsiness, swelling or joint pain, bloating. These symptoms rarely occur if taken at the right dose, if any, they will go away on their own. When used for a long time, excess GH status can cause hypertrophy of some organs, an increased incidence of complications and death, an increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and malignant neoplasms. The use of GH can also cause prosthetic tumors in the brain to cause severe headaches, at which point the patient is forced to stop taking drugs, otherwise other injuries will occur.

There are many hormones in the body that work together smoothly like an orchestra. Adding or subtracting an unreasonable hormone can disrupt the balance, causing many unanticipated disadvantages.

Children are low due to lack of growth hormone

The height of children depends on many complicated factors such as genetics, effects of thyroid hormones, gonads, adrenal glands, diet, micronutrient deficiency (calcium, zinc, iron, vitamin A, D3). In these cases, the use of GH is not effective.

In 2003, the US allowed Eli-lylly to circulate recombinant GH. About 1% of low-birthed children get this medicine but the results are not optimistic: In children who have been injected 3 times a week for 4 consecutive years, the height increase is only about 1.3 cm higher than Children use placebo, while the cost of treatment is up to 20,000 USD.

Meanwhile, it is easy to take care of nutrition, practice and costly, with many benefits.

Plastic surgery prolongs the leg bone

Adults with synaptic cartilage strips have been calcified, the height can only be improved by plastic surgery that extends the leg bone. Although it has been improved and has many achievements, this surgery still contains a number of risks: only stretching the leg bone without prolonging the femur, causing imbalance (because when it is low, even the femur part and leg bones are shorter than normal. If done improperly, pulling both sides unevenly, the legs will be skewed. Some cases can be infected. The maximum length can be pulled up is 10 cm, if compared to walking shoes with 5-7cm high sole, the results are still modest.

Therefore, increasing human stature must be solved in many ways through many generations. In the same generation, the relative height difference between one person and another is normal, not inferior. Moreover, many studies confirm that people of modest height, including those with low GH, are not at all inferior in intelligence.