Norditropin®: Privacy statement

Privacy statement

Thank you for visiting norditropin-us.com, a Novo Nordisk Inc. site. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice to explain our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this site.

This Web site has been created to provide our visitors information about our company, products, and services.

With respect to our Web sites, Novo Nordisk Inc. will collect, store, or use personally identifiable information such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or other information only when it is voluntarily submitted to us on our sites. This information, when voluntarily submitted, will permit us to respond to requests that you make of us, and from time to time we may refer to your information to better understand your needs and how to improve our Web sites, products, and services. We may also use your information to contact you, including providing you with additional support information and special offers from Novo Nordisk Inc. and our business partners.

Novo Nordisk Inc. also collects aggregate or nonpersonal identifiable information to track data such as the total number of visits to our Web sites, the number of visitors to each page of our Web sites, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. We use this information to understand how our visitors use our Web sites so that we may make them better. We may also share this information with our parent company, its affiliates, our partners, or other outside companies. No personally identifiable information is disclosed in this process.

Novo Nordisk Inc.'s Web sites provide links to other Web sites as a service to our visitors. We believe these Web sites provide helpful information. However, Novo Nordisk Inc. does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of third-party sites. Nor does Novo Nordisk Inc. have any control over the information that you may choose to provide to these sites. The privacy policy described here does not apply to those sites.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Statement. Inadvertent disclosures may result, for example, when third parties misrepresent their identities in asking the site for access to personal identifiable information about themselves for purposes of correcting possible factual errors in the data.

To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our Web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files that we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering with one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish our site(s) with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to data stored in the cookie.

We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience on our Web pages (ie, to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, etc. We also may use cookies to offer you programs, products, or services.

We intend to use the general content of communications, including ideas, inventions, concepts, techniques, and know-how, for other purposes including developing, manufacturing, and/or marketing goods or services.

Important Safety Information

Remember, your doctor is the main source of information about you and your health. Please consult your doctor if you have any questions about your health or your medication.

Norditropin^® (somatropin [rDNA origin] injection) is used to treat children with growth failure caused by very low or no production of growth hormone. It is also used to treat adults who do not make enough growth hormone.

Do not use Norditropin^® if you have any of the following conditions: an allergy to phenol or any other ingredients in the medicine; active cancer or other forms of tumor; acute critical illness due to certain types of heart or abdomen surgery, trauma, or acute respiratory failure.

Children should not use Norditropin^® if they have any of the following conditions: closed epiphyses (closed bone growth plates), Prader-Willi syndrome with severe obesity, or Prader-Willi syndrome with significant respiratory impairment.

Be sure to tell your doctor if you have diabetes mellitus; have had cancer or other forms of tumor; are pregnant, planning to be pregnant or are breastfeeding; or if you have had a kidney transplant.

Be sure to tell your doctor about all medications you are taking especially if they are: a glucocorticoid medication such as hydrocortisone or cortisone acetate, thyroid hormone, insulin and/or oral diabetes medicines, drugs metabolized by the liver (for example, corticosteroids, sex steroids, anticonvulsants, cyclosporine), or oral estrogen replacement.

Adult height can be influenced if you are on Norditropin^® for growth failure and at the same time using glucocorticoids or thyroid hormone.

If you are treated with insulin and/or oral diabetes medicines, the dose of your insulin/oral diabetes medicines may need to be adjusted.

Side effects are usually mild and temporary. Side effects may include headaches, muscle pain, joint stiffness, weakness, high blood sugar (hyperglycemia), sugar in your urine (glucosuria), swollen hands and feet due to fluid retention, and redness and itching in the area you inject.

If you have any of these symptoms, discuss them with your doctor.

If you have headaches, eyesight problems, nausea and/or vomiting, these may be symptoms of raised pressure in the brain. Contact your doctor right away.

In very rare cases children treated with somatropin have experienced pain in the hip or knee or a limp. These symptoms may be caused by a slippage of the growth plate in the hip (slipped capital femoral epiphysis).

Scoliosis (curvature of the spine) can occur in children who experience rapid growth. Because growth hormone increases growth rate, children should be monitored for progression of scoliosis.

Thyroid function tests should be performed periodically.

Skin lesions should be checked carefully for any unusual changes.

Talk to your doctor if you think you have any of these conditions.


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