Duo Duo is a 9-year-old girl who grew a lot in the second grade of elementary school and became the tallest child in her class. One weekend, Duo Duo and her mother said that her stomach hurt, and her mother found that Duo Duo had actually come to menstruate.
Later, the mother noticed that the flower's chest felt a lump, and the breast had already begun to develop. After going to the hospital for examination, Duo Duo was diagnosed with precocious puberty, and the bone age had reached 12 years old, and the doctor expected that Duo Duo's height might be less than 1.5 meters in adulthood.
First, boys and girls, how to find precocious puberty?
How can you tell if a child is precocious? Clinically, the definition of precocious puberty is generally believed: before the age of 8 in girls and before the age of 9 in boys, secondary sexual characteristics appear. The so-called secondary sexual characteristics refer to the development of the breasts of girls, the appearance of induration, nipples and areola enlargement; boys' testicles enlarge, pubic hair growth, and change of voice.
Normally, girls begin to enter puberty at the age of 9-12 and end at the age of 15-17. At the age of 9-11, the breasts gradually develop. At the age of 12-13, the ovaries gradually enlarge, the uterus and reproductive system continue to mature, and menstruation occurs. By the age of 14-15, menstruation has been regular, and the breasts have matured. At the age of 16-17, the height basically stopped growing.
Boys start puberty a little later than girls, and boys are around 11-14 years old. Then end at 17-19 years old. Upon puberty, the testicles begin to develop and grow. At the age of 14-16, the first spermatozoa appeared.
The penis then enlarges and matures at the age of 17-19. At the same time, the beard, armpit hair, pubic hair, and throat knots will also appear one after another and begin to change their voices.
Because the characteristics of variation in boys are less pronounced than those of girls, some parents may not notice. Therefore, parents must always pay attention to the development of their children, and do not affect their children's lives because of neglect.
Second, fried chicken, soy milk, anti-seasonal fruits, which is the culprit?
Children are precocious, and many parents blame diet on eating, believing that children eat too many hormone-containing foods. Like what:
1. Fast-growing chicken
Parents: Fast-growing chicken hits hormones, in order to grow fast and good, children eat foods containing hormones, not precocious puberty is strange!
Debunking rumors: In fact, fast-growing chickens are not hormone chickens, on the contrary, fast-growing chickens are excellent chickens cultivated by the state, and chickens that have grown up after strict breeding and scientific breeding, and have nothing to do with hormones.
However, if children regularly eat fried chicken, it may cause calories to exceed the standard, causing obesity and increasing the risk of precocious puberty. Therefore, fast-growing chicken is not a problem, the problem is that high-calorie, high-fat foods, resulting in obesity, is one of the factors that cause precocious puberty.
2. Soy milk
Parents: Soybean isoflavones contained in soy milk are estrogen-like, and children drinking too much soy milk will increase the level of estrogen in the body, resulting in precocious puberty.
Debunking: First of all, soy isoflavones are only estrogenoids, not estrogen in the true sense, and will not produce the same effect as estrogen in the human body, as long as it is drunk normally, the problem is not big.
Secondly, the content of soybean isoflavones in the beans is not high, not to mention that the soy milk is made after the beans are soaked, cooked and polished, and the soybean isoflavones contained will become less, and the impact on the human body is not large, so there is no close relationship with children's precocious puberty.
3. Off-season fruits
Parents: Anti-seasonal fruits are cultivated in violation of the laws of the seasons, playing a lot of hormones, children eating anti-seasonal fruits is equivalent to eating hormones, which can easily lead to premature puberty.
Debunking: The hormones given to out-of-season fruits are plant hormones, which are not the same thing as hormones in the human body. Plant hormones are used to regulate plant growth and development, and are generally used during the growth period of plants. After the plant matures and markets, it contains a lot less hormones, and it is difficult to "ripen" the child.
4. Bovine colostrum
Parents: The Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China has stipulated that the addition of bovine colostrum is not allowed in infant formula, does it mean that bovine colostrum contains a variety of hormones, which will make children precocious?
Debunking rumors: The reason why the state prohibits the addition of colostrum to infant formula is because bovine colostrum is not so good, and there is no scientific evidence to prove that it can enhance immunity, prevent disease and resist disease.
In addition, bovine colostrum is high in protein content, and for infants and young children whose organs are not yet mature, eating bovine colostrum may increase the burden on the kidneys and gastrointestinal tract, as well as the risk of allergies. Therefore, not giving bovine colostrum to infants and young children is not because bovine colostrum can lead to precocious puberty.
In addition, there are also sayings that latin dancing will lead to precocious puberty, and sleeping with parents will make children precocious, etc., are not rigorous. There are many reasons for children's precocious puberty, and some of them can't even find the cause, or hope that parents can use their reason to distinguish between true and false.
Children are precocious and may be related to their parents
The factors that lead to precocious puberty in children seem to be various, and some doctors' science popularization may be contradictory, and we only look at the existing data and research, and there are roughly the following reasons.
1. Heredity
Genetics are closely related to growth and development, and genetic studies have found that precocious lineages may be related to genetic mutations. If the mother develops early, then the probability of the daughter developing early is also very high.
2. Diet
Now the children are the little princes and princesses of the family, holding them in their hands for fear of falling, and holding them in their mouths for fear of melting. One by one, they are all spoiled by their parents, especially in terms of diet, and parents are even more concerned. Give children a variety of nutritional products, let them eat french fries, fried chicken, barbecue and other high-fat, high-calorie foods, coupled with do not love sports, in the long run, it will lead to excessive nutrition in children, easy to lead to obesity, further promote the secretion of sex hormones, leading to precocious puberty.
3. Mistakenly ingesting contraceptives
The contraceptives used by adults are not properly preserved, and children accidentally turn it out, thinking that it is candy, resulting in accidental eating, which will also cause precocious puberty. Because the main component of the contraceptive pill is sex hormones, the child mistakenly takes it, which is equivalent to injecting sex hormones into the body, which will naturally cause precocious puberty.
In addition, children's exposure to adult cosmetics, sleeping at night and turning on night lights may be factors, and there have been cases, and parents can also pay attention to this aspect to prevent problems before they occur.
Fourth, how to treat precocious puberty?
Clinically, precocious puberty is divided into true precocious puberty and pseudoprecocious puberty. Different types of treatments are different.
True precocious puberty, also known as central precocious puberty, has complex etiology. It is idiopathic for most girls, and for boys the chance of tumors is high. Treatment of non-tumor-induced pseudococious puberty generally involves taking drugs that inhibit gonadal development and, if necessary, growth hormone therapy.
Pseudo-precocious puberty, also known as peripheral precocious puberty, most of which can find out the cause after detailed examination, the difficulty of treatment is relatively small, the common causes are mistakenly taking contraceptives, long-term consumption of health care products containing hormones, etc., as long as the causative factors are removed, and the necessary auxiliary medication can be used to solve the problem.
To prevent precocious puberty, parents should pay more attention to their children's development and physical and mental conditions. There are many reasons for precocious puberty, try to ensure that the child's diet is balanced, urge the child to adhere to exercise, work and rest regularly, once there is an abnormality in time to go to the hospital for examination, there is no need to worry too much.
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