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Article: Help for slow-growing children. (includes related article on human growth hormone)
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- March 1, 1987
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Help for Slow-Growing Children
"I guess it was may motherly instinct that told me somethingwas wrong,' Chicago homemaker Mary Andrews says of her son Deno's growth problem. "Up until 2 1/2 he grew normally. But after that my sisters and in-laws would give me hand-me-downs [from their same-age children] and they would still fit him. I noticed that all the other kids were much taller.'
When Deno was 4 1/2 and still not growing as fast as his playmates, his mother decided to see if the problem might be due to some medical condition.
The diagnosis on Deno was not encouraging. Doctors toldAndrews that her child had a deficiency of human growth ...