Humatrope is a HGH injection for children who do not produce growth hormones on their own & adults who have a growth hormone deficiency from adulthood or childhood.
Humatrope® (somatropin for injection) is used to treat children who are short or growing slowly because they have idiopathic short stature, which means they are shorter than 98.8% of other children of the same age and sex, are growing at a rate not likely to allow them to reach normal adult height, and for whom no other cause of short stature can be found.
Children whose growth problem cannot currently be diagnosed may be considered to have ISS, which means short stature with no known cause. Despite the great amount of understanding that pediatric endocrinologists have gained about causes of slow growth and short stature, there are still many factors that affect growth that are not yet fully understood.
For more information, please speak to your healthcare professional.