Be sure you have understood the specialist's instructions about quantities to be used. The drug may well be supplied on an ongoing basis by your GP . There are various tips about the best ways to persuade a child to accept these daily injections and, again, the Child Growth Foundation is a good source of advice and support. If your child is receiving growth hormone treatment it does not necessarily follow that he or she will also need treatment to stimulate the onset of puberty, but around half of such children will need this extra treatment. An increasing number of adult patients are therefore treated with growth hormone replacement by daily injection, and some notice a substantial improvement in their energy, strength and overall quality of life on treatment.
Replacement involves daily injections, often given by a 'pen' device.
Prolactin Prolactin stimulates milk production - and suppresses the effects of gonadotrophins. There are usually few symptoms and few problems. The exception is after pregnancy, when a lack of prolactin may mean that the mother does not produce breast milk. However, unlike other pituitary hormones, prolactin is controlled by the secretion of a compound by the hypothalamus which acts as a brake on the pituitary's secretion of prolactin. In the case of pituitary tumours that decrease access of hypothalamic hormones to the pituitary gland, this brake is reduced and thus the secretion of prolactin increases.