Is Norditropin Nordilet safe to use in kids?

Question

Hello doctor,

It is about my son's health. He is a little over 10 years old. At birth, he had difficulty receiving oxygen, and ever since, he has had occasional seizures and developmental delay in learning. He can walk, talk, and eat like any other normal kid. The problems he has currently are delayed physical growth (height-he is a foot shorter for his age), severely delayed learning skills (difficulty in learning the alphabet), and very mild seizures, with occasional rolling of eyes.

The only current medication being used is for seizures. A recent doctor visit subjected our family to some agitation. The doctor suggested 1 mg per day of Norditropin Nordilet meant for improving human growth hormone.

Now my questions are related to using Norditropin Nordilet,

From the information I gathered, it is mostly used by bodybuilders who are in desperate need of being tall. Will it have any negative impact on my kid if I start using it because he already has problems such as seizures and developmental delay?
Our worry is that this injection might interfere with the seizure issues he already has. If my kid is ok with being short, can we avoid using this injection?
The question is, should we use this Norditropin Nordilet or not?
Are there any other alternative approaches (including suggestions from alternative medicine) for the improvement of human growth hormone?

I searched for some information, but I am not confident in applying it.

Please help.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hello,

Welcome to icliniq.com.

The issue is straightforward, and we need to rule out common causes of short height in the first instance. These include nutritional, familial (which may be constitutional), or due to anemia or celiac disease. These kinds of medicines should be used very cautiously, as they may lead to hypertension and marrow suppression in some cases and affect pubertal changes as well.

My advice will be to not take such medicines and to get a hemogram profile and TTGA (tissue transglutaminase) to rule out celiac disease and a TFT (thyroid function test) to rule out a thyroid disorder. We should take care of his seizures, and occasional seizures also hamper development. So kindly provide details of the medicines you are using.

Please do the following investigations:

CBC (complete blood profile).
TTGA.
Thyroid function test (T3, T4, TSH).

Get done with the advised investigations and report back; I hope we can overcome this problem in simple ways.

Give him a nutritious diet, and make a diet chart so that we can calculate his calorie consumption.

Report back with details of family height at the same age and the investigation report, as well as the diet chart, whatever he ages in the next few days. And also provide the details of the MRI if done, and drugs for epilepsy.

I hope it helps.

Thank you