Effects Of Growth Hormone Deficiency

Growth hormone in the human body is responsible the proper growth and development of the body. Any discrepancy in its functions put the body in a diseased state. If the body is producing more of growth hormones then the person may suffer from a disease called ‘Gigantism’ in which there is abnormal and excessive growth while if there is low level of growth hormones then the result may be dwarfism. The deficiency of growth hormone has many side effects associated with them. Few of them have been listed below for your reference: 

    Lethargy
  1. Lethargy: The first effect of the growth hormone deficiency is lack of energy. You will end up feeling exhausted even after doing the most trivial work. This will increase with age as the levels of growth hormone secreted by the body will decrease further with age which in turn will reduce the metabolism rate of the body to even lower levels.
    2. Sexual Dysfunction
  2. Sexual dysfunction: The growth hormones trigger the pituitary gland. The growth hormone deficiency will fail to stimuli the pituitary gland which is responsible for the sexual maturity during the adolescence years. Therefore the person may suffer from sexual dysfunctions.
    3. Obesity
  3. Obesity: Growth hormones help in regulating the metabolism of the body. When the body gets deficient in growth hormones, the metabolism rate gets reduced and less of fat is burnt by the body. This excess fat gets stored and the person suffers from obesity.
    4. Dental Problems
  4. Dental problems: There are very high chances that the person having growth hormone deficiency is affected severely by the dental problems.
    5. Stressed
  5. Stressed: The person suffering from growth hormone deficiency will also suffer from severe emotional stress and depression. Premature loss of sexual vitality, obesity and lethargies has a negative effect on the psychological makeup.

The optimum level of the growth hormone is different for every individual and requires special testing of blood. It is not very difficult situation to deal with. All it needs is timely diagnosis as it gets easier to cure it at its early stages. A child has better chances of getting cured instead of an adult.

There are several medications that improve the secretion of the growth hormone in the human body. Some of them include hormone pills or injecting the hormones directly into the blood stream. The doctors decide the course of treatment depending upon the severity of the case.