In Baku, drugs for weight gain and weight loss are sold, as well as drugs that supposedly help lengthen the neck. Parents who want their children to grow buy and consume the drugs displayed on the city’s posters.
But have these drugs been proven to help increase height? At what age can children use them?
Speaking to Bizim.Media, pediatrician Vagif Garayev said that the reasons that prevent height growth should be investigated first and a doctor’s opinion should be given.
“No matter how much a parent beautifies himself, his child will look like in his previous state. In other words, you cannot force nature. There is an Azerbaijani way of thinking: we want our children to be tall, plump and chubby. If not, what should we do? Unless there is a serious medical reason for it, let’s leave it to nature. Before there were tables with height and weight limits for children. height of the mother and father by certain coefficients and get the norm.
If the child’s growth does not correspond to the norm, then the reasons that impede growth should be investigated. There are high zones in the wrist bones, the X-ray shows this. If these zones are not closed, the height will increase, if they are closed, other measures should be taken. First, we need to find out the reason for the closure. If all this is normal, we should look for the reason in heredity.
Five out of seven mothers say that their child is short. After all, the mother’s height is also short, nature created it that way. No one accepts heredity. I agree with the wishes and desires of parents, but this does not happen through violence. That is, if it is hereditary, we cannot do anything.
The doctor urged parents not to take such medications without a prescription:
“There are weight gain drugs in pharmacies. They should not be used. Nowadays women are obsessed with losing weight, and that is not possible. We see how many complications this has for those who take weight loss drugs. It is not right to lose weight, gain weight or gain height by force.
If there are no medical reasons that prevent them, it is necessary to change their lifestyle. It is necessary to live by eating, drinking and resting. Drawing a red line below, I say that no parent should buy drugs to improve height on their own. The usefulness of such drugs is still in doubt. It is only necessary to consult a country doctor, pediatrician or endocrinologist to examine the above and make a decision.”
