Turner's Syndrome - A Woman's Disease
Melissa Brown
Imagine that you are 13 years old. All your friends are growing: they are getting taller; they are starting to menstruate. You, on the other hand, are conspicuously shorter than your peers; you don't have your period and you seem to blurt out* whatever comes to your mind. You would probably feel that you are awkward and begin to develop low self-esteem. This could be the life of a teenage girl with Turner's syndrome. Nevertheless there are various medical methods that could be used to make the girl's life as normal as possible. Girls can have an average stature by undergoing growth hormone treatment before growth is completed. Oestrogen is used when the girl is about 12 or 13 to produce physical changes like breast development and for the proper mineralization of bones. Progesterone should also be used at the appropriate time to start the period.
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