Learn about precocious puberty early and don't wait to miss the best time for treatment before regretting it

In recent years, more and more patients have been treated in pediatric growth and development clinics, and the number of patients with precocious puberty has gradually increased, which means that the problem of precocious puberty in children has become more and more serious. More people are beginning to pay attention to precocious puberty, because the harm it brings cannot be ignored.

What is precocious puberty?

Precocious puberty refers to the development of secondary sexual characteristics in girls before the age of 8 and boys before the age of 9. For example, girls have breast development, menstruation, and armpit hair growth; boys have penis lengthening, testicle enlargement, long throat knots, long beards, etc.

Why do children have precocious puberty?

1. Heredity

People are susceptible to genetic factors of their parents, as is precocious puberty, such as early menstruation in mothers and early sperm loss in fathers, and studies have shown that children with early maternal menarche have a relatively high risk of developing precocious puberty.

2. Diet

Overnutritional obesity, excessive consumption of certain nourishing foods, and mistaken use of exogenous hormone drugs may lead to precocious puberty.

3. Environment

Children are more sensitive to their bodies than adults. There are too many environmental pollutants, such as industrial pollutants, detergents, and some pesticides in the atmospheric environment after a series of decomposition to produce estrogen-like active substances. If these substances are ingested by children, or come into contact with the skin, it can easily lead to precocious puberty.

4. Social factors

In this era when the Internet is so developed, children can easily contact children's inappropriate films and television, and these contents will cause certain stimulation to children's psychology, so that the nerve centers in the brain that regulate development are started in advance, resulting in precocious puberty.

5. Disease

(1) Central precocious puberty:

(1) Idiopathic precocious puberty: also known as physical precocious puberty, girls are more common;

(2) Secondary precocious puberty: more common in central nervous system injury, such as hypothalamic hamartoma, central nervous system infection, congenital developmental abnormalities, etc.;

(3) Other diseases: a small number of untreated primary thyroid dysfunction

(2) Peripheral precocious puberty:

(1) Gonadal tumors: luteal tumors, teratomas, etc

(2) Adrenal gland diseases: adrenal tumors

(3) Other diseases: such as McCune-Albright syndrome

What are the effects of precocious puberty on children?

1. Affect the child's height

Precocious children due to early puberty, early secretion of sex hormones, premature acceleration of physical development, early growth stopped, although the beginning of the figure is higher than the same age of children, but the bone age is significantly more than the actual age, so that the epiphyseal closure in advance, and finally the height is lower than ordinary people.

2. Affect the child's psychology

Although the sexual characteristics of a child with precocious puberty develop in advance, his psychology and intelligence are still at the actual age level, and a child with precocious puberty will have early menarche, premature sperm or obesity. When they find that their bodies are different from their peers around them, they are prone to inferiority complex, and severe may even lead to depression.

3. Make your child's sexuality ahead of schedule

Precocious children's psychological development and physical development do not match, physiologically mature, but psychologically still very naïve, easy to have early love, premature sexual behavior because of poor self-control and social experience, and then lead to early pregnancy, abortion and disease transmission problems.

4. Sometimes it is a sign of other diseases such as tumors

Some precocious children are caused by specific diseases, such as ovarian tumors, testicular tumors, intracranial tumors, etc., so precocious puberty is likely to be accompanied by tumor risk.

How to prevent precocious puberty

1. Control diet to help children develop reasonable and balanced eating habits and avoid problems such as overnutrition and obesity. Eat green organic fruits and vegetables and animal meat. At the same time, pay attention to limiting the intake of sweets, sweet drinks and saturated fats (fatty meats, animal fats). 2. Less contact with health care products, immune enhancers, antibiotics and other drugs; external skin care products for children. 3. Exercise more. It is recommended that everyone should usually let children pay more attention to outdoor activities, parents are best to take their children to participate in some leisure activities, such as walking, running, rock climbing, skiing, etc., to develop some sports habits.

Children's precocious puberty can not be ignored, some family members do not care, when you find that children have symptoms of precocious puberty, you need to seek medical treatment in time, find the cause, do not miss the best treatment time.