Side Effects Of Growth Hormone On Children

Growth hormones are used to help growth and human development. Growth hormones are used on kids who do not produce the standard amount of hormones. Some can argue that growth hormones is helpful in advancing a child growth development. Moreover, since it is food and drug administration approve it then must be safe. Nonetheless, the after effects of growth hormones can have severe side effect on a kid. This position paper will address how growth hormone for kids has more disadvantages on kids’ growth and health. According to Herman (1993), the study that was conducted had eighty children; some receive a placebo while other received the growth hormones. The parents, children, and researcher did not know which child get which in till the end on the experiment. This study was to help children who could not produce their own hormones due to certain disease might have. Overall, the study lead to not working as they hope it would, and worried it might have more harm than good for the children participating (Herman, 1993).

According to Stanley (2012), the experiment began by testing children that may have growth hormone deficiency. Throughout the experiment twenty-eight of thirty-three children had not done well for testing. The children that did show growth hormone deficiency was giving growth hormone but shown not much of an improving. Giving all the information that was conducted in this experiment, it was concluded as unreproducible (Stanley, 2012). The experiment to find out if growth hormone would help kids with growth hormone deficiency lead to be more difficult to accomplish and displays how growth hormones are not good for