How to use TEV-TROPIN® and get growing
Growth hormone needs to be injected for it to work. If it were given as a pill,
it
would be broken down in the stomach and digested. At first, injections
When a medicine enters the body through a needle—either under the skin, into a muscle, or into a vein. Growth hormone therapy is injected under the skin
may be overwhelming, but with proper training and practice, you should
become more comfortable giving injections.
There are four basic steps required to administer TEV-TROPIN®
A therapy that treats children who have growth failure due to GHD. It works by replacing growth hormone in the body. The growth hormone in TEV-TROPIN® is made in a lab, but it works just like the growth hormone a body would make
:
Step 1: Preparation
Step 2: Site selection
Step 3: Injection
Step 4: Disposal
A nurse trainer will teach you on how to administer TEV-TROPIN®.
The following resources will complement the training you receive.
- TEV-TROPIN® can be taken using the
Needle-Free Tjet® device. The Tjet® device
is only available by prescription, with a separate prescription for TEV-TROPIN®.
To watch the Tjet® device video, click here
- For detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to use the Tjet® device
with TEV-TROPIN®, click here
- TEV-TROPIN® can also be taken using Inject-Ease®.
Inject-Ease® makes injections less intimidating. It hides the needle with
an adapter tip. To learn more, click here
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