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<\/p>\nA balance is very necessary to maintain the normal functioning of the body system and anything in excess or too little can cause serious problems, excess of HGH especially in childhood can lead to gigantism while less of HGH in the body can lead to dwarfism.<\/p>\n
IGF-1 or Insulin Growth Factor without which HGH benefits are not seen at all, as these two work hand in hand and you can state that if the HGH level is high so will the IGF-1 level be high in the body. To check the amount of IGF-1 in the blood all you need to do is to undergo a simple test where in you need to submit two samples of your blood on two successive days.<\/p>\n
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Why is it necessary to test for HGH? <\/strong><\/p>\n Excess or less of growth hormone can lead to a number of illness and to prevent them testing for HGH<\/a> becomes important. One illness which is prominent is acromegaly wherein you usually find a tumor in the pituitary gland; the most important thing is that necessary equipments should be available when treating the patient with HGH injections so as to monitor the progress.<\/p>\n The patient is told to lie still without moving for some time so that blood can be drawn out for testing as physical activities like exercises can affect the production of the hormone and the testing may not be accurate. Another reason for the report not being accurate may be due to the use of certain drugs in which estrogen is used as in case of contraceptive pills and corticosteroids. The patient should mention the use of these drugs in case of use before going in for the testing procedure.<\/p>\n How does one go about testing for HGH? <\/strong><\/p>\n This test is conducted by collecting more than one sample of the blood on two different days in order to see the change in the levels of the hormone. Usually IGF-1 test is done because the change in the level takes place slowly. Before going in for the test the laboratory technician should be informed about any abnormalities or disorders which could lead to excessive bleeding.<\/p>\n Reports vary from lab to lab but then all the labs follow the same guideline i.e. for men the level should be 0-5ng\/ml, for women 0-10ng\/ml and for children 0-16ng\/ml and anything above the normal indicates that the person is suffering from gigantism. This can lead to tumors in the pituitary gland. The increase in the level of GH in the body may be due to starvation, diabetes etc.<\/p>\n Growth hormone tests are conducted after the patient is asked to consume large amounts of sugar, the level of sugar should decrease, if the level increases then acromegaly can be a genuine problem. GH stimulation tests are done to check the GH level in the body before insulin is introduced in the blood. Post insulin GH level should be higher under normal conditions and if not then the patient should be treated for the deficiency of GH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A balance is very necessary to maintain the normal functioning of the body system and anything in excess or too little can cause serious problems, excess of HGH especially in childhood can lead to gigantism while less of HGH in the body can lead to dwarfism. IGF-1 or Insulin Growth Factor without which HGH benefits … Continue reading “HGH Testing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.health-care-clinic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}