Growth Disorders Update
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04/13/2016 02:39 PM EDT
Source: National Library of Medicine - 
04/13/2016 02:39 PM EDT
Source: National Library of Medicine -
04/13/2016 02:39 PM EDT
Source: National Library of Medicine -
National Institutes of Health
Does your child seem much shorter - or much taller - than other kids his or her age? It could be normal. Some children may be small for their age but still be developing normally. Some children are short or tall because their parents are.
But some children have growth disorders. Growth disorders are problems that prevent children from developing normal height, weight, sexual maturity or other features.
Very slow or very fast growth can sometimes signal a gland problem or disease.
The pituitary gland makes growth hormone, which stimulates the growth of bone and other tissues. Children who have too little of it may be very short. Treatment with growth hormone can stimulate growth.
People can also have too much growth hormone. Usually the cause is a pituitary gland tumor, which is not cancer. Too much growth hormone can cause gigantism in children, where their bones and their body grow too much. In adults, it can cause acromegaly, which makes the hands, feet and face larger than normal. Possible treatments include surgery to remove the tumor, medicines, and radiation therapy.
- Growth Charts (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation)Available in Spanish
- Growth Hormone (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- IGF-1 (Insulin-Like Growth Factor -1) Test (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- X-Ray Exam: Bone Age Study (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation)Available in Spanish
- Endocrinologist: What Is an Endocrinologist? (Hormone Health Network)
- Growth Hormone: Use and Abuse (Hormone Health Network) - PDF
- Health Alert: Adrenal Crisis Causes Death in Some People Who Were Treated with hGH (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Human Growth Hormone (HGH): Does It Slow Aging? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Information for People Treated with Human Growth Hormone (Comprehensive Report) (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Information for People Treated with Human Growth Hormone (Summary) (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Acromegaly (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Sotos Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Genetics Home Reference: Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Cockayne syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Floating-Harbor syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: geleophysic dysplasia (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: isolated growth hormone deficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Laron syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Noonan syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Russell-Silver syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: short stature, hyperextensibility, hernia, ocular depression, Rieger anomaly, and teething delay (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Sotos syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Warsaw breakage syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: Weaver syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- FastStats: Body Measurements (National Center for Health Statistics)
- Stature-for-Age and Weight-for-Age Percentiles: Boys, 2 to 20 Years (National Center for Health Statistics) - PDFAvailable in Spanish
- Stature-for-Age and Weight-for-Age Percentiles: Girls 2 to 20 Years (National Center for Health Statistics) - PDFAvailable in Spanish
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Acromegaly (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Failure to Thrive (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Growth Disorders (National Institutes of Health)
- Find an Endocrinologist (Hormone Health Network)
- Hormone Health Network
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Available in Spanish
- Failure to Thrive (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation)Available in Spanish
- Growth Disorders (Nemours Foundation)
- Growth Failure in Children with Kidney Disease (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children (Hormone Health Network) - PDFAvailable in Spanish
- McCune-Albright Syndrome (MAS) (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
- Precocious Puberty (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation)
- What Are Normal Puberty, Precocious Puberty, and Delayed Puberty? (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
- Delayed Puberty (Nemours Foundation)Available in Spanish
- Growth Problems (Nemours Foundation)
- Acromegaly Available in Spanish
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome Available in Spanish
- Delayed growth Available in Spanish
- Failure to thrive Available in Spanish
- Gigantism Available in Spanish
- Growth chart Available in Spanish
- Growth hormone deficiency Available in Spanish
- Growth hormone stimulation test Available in Spanish
- Growth hormone test Available in Spanish
- Short stature Available in Spanish
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