Interview are often already nervous with hormone specialist about “normal” and “abnormal” growth if the child is less than the average in primary school or kindergarten, parents. Perhaps the daughter or son is small in stature. Who here to long waits with a therapy that may align often after little. But what can be seen, whether a child is actually small in stature or whether it simply only just inserting a pause in the growth? There is a very large span between early and late onset growth. Both, however, is no reason for parents, worried to be”, says of the Bochum-based endocrinologist (hormone specialist) PD Dr. Burkhard Herrmann in an interview with the online health magazine.

A disorder of growth was actually only in rare cases. A possible error is the constitutional development delay (KEV). Another disturbance could affect the pituitary gland. Those children already in kindergarten and elementary school to the smaller included and also not grow, should be investigated so the hormone specialist. Then, hormone injections that stimulate growth were a possible therapy. Whether growth hormone injection can why E.g. falling from a changing table in infancy can have influence on the subsequent growth and what is examined at the visit to the doctor, cause side effects, read on in the lengthy interview: interviews/wachstumshormone.html rheinruhrmed.de is a free and independent online health magazine for the Rheinland and Ruhr area and is published by a group of freelance journalist from the region. rheinruhrmed.de is a pure information portal (without any consulting activity!); the online magazine is financed exclusively.