1, accelerated growth and development: due to the role of improved nutrition, better family living conditions, and fewer diseases, children’s growth and development has accelerated, leading to an increase in early sexual development and precocious sexual maturity.
2, environmental hormones: In recent years, a large number of foreign literature reports, detergents, pesticides and plastics industry to the environment and its decomposition products, can produce a series of hormone-like pollutants in nature. Such as detergents in the alkylated phenols, additives used in the manufacture of plastic products, plasticizers such as phthalates and bisphenol A, as many as seventy species, these substances are discharged into the environment in large quantities every day.
In addition, although organochlorine pesticides are now rarely used, but the large number of applications at the time, the residual toxicity in soil, water and plants is still high, and these pollutants have been found to have estrogen-like activity after degradation to a certain extent in nature. Although their concentrations in nature are low, their combined synergistic effects are very strong.
If contaminated water, food or absorbed through the skin and ingested by children, they can cause abnormal development of reproductive organs and bones. Therefore, environmental hormonal contaminants can be a direct cause of pseudoprecocious puberty. If the role of such substances in early embryonic life can also lead to gender differentiation disorders.
3, blind tonic: precocious sexual maturity and too much attention to tonic related. Soup making is very representative of the Cantonese food culture, but also the culinary strengths of the Cantonese. Many of them boil animal offal together with soup, in which the endocrine glands of animals such as thyroid and gonads contain hormonal substances, which can enter the body through meals.
In addition, some parents do not analyze the real reasons for children’s anorexia, blindly give children who do not like to eat to take health products that can enhance appetite. Unbeknownst to them, health supplements that can increase appetite often contain hormones, which, when taken for a long time, can cause an increase in hormone levels in children’s blood, leading to precocious puberty. In today’s society, there are many factors that can cause precocious puberty. There are two major causes of peripheral precocious puberty, one is endogenous and the other is exogenous.
The exogenous ones are such as misuse of birth control pills, excessive intake of supplements and health products, etc. The endogenous ones are mostly due to tumors in the body, especially tumors of the gonads. Now, the pseudo-prematurity caused by food and environmental factors has grown especially in recent years.
4. Misuse of contraceptive pills: A 5-year-old girl thought that the contraceptive pills her mother took were delicious sugar pills, so she ate 6 pills when her mother was not paying attention, resulting in menstruation. The parents were very nervous at the time, and when they went to the hospital, the girl’s endocrine examination revealed an increase in estrogen. This phenomenon has become common, especially in rural areas. Although the girl’s condition was relieved after medication adjustment treatment, parents must be warned to always keep the pill out of reach of children. Otherwise, even a child of seven or eight years old, even if only 1 pill may induce precocious puberty.
5, premature psychological stimulation: With the popularity of television, VCD, etc., some children can be exposed to some behavioral images beyond their psychological age from film and television very early. From the statistics, the more closed areas than the open areas of precocious puberty patients are much less, rural children significantly less than urban children, rural girls than urban girls significantly lagged the age of menarche, these are psychological factors play a role in the clear evidence.
6, affected by certain diseases (such as intracranial tumors, genetics and other factors): parents should pay attention to the development of children, especially whether the hair, genitals, beard, throat nodes and other premature development. Once the child is found to have premature secondary sexual characteristics, they should go to the endocrinology department for examination and treatment in time to avoid the development of the disease.
7, hormone fruit can lead to premature sexual maturity in children: careful parents will find that in recent years, the fruit on the market is getting bigger and bigger, but buy back a taste, may be greatly disappointed. This is because these fruits use fertilizers containing hormones.
So how to identify hormone fruits? Generally speaking, where hormone fruits are concerned, their shape is extra large and unusual, their appearance is bright and colorful, and their flesh tastes bland. Almost all anti-seasonal vegetables and fruits are hormone-induced, such as the early listing of oversized strawberries, large kiwis with a square-edged appearance, most of them are puffed up; the fruit stalks are red lychees and cut open the flesh of the melon is bright red but the melon is not ripe, the taste is not sweet watermelon, etc., most of the application of ripening agents; some large seedless grapes are mostly the result of spraying estrogen.
8, excessive light makes children precocious: light is also one of the important causes of precocious sexual maturity. The pineal gland in the human brain secretes melatonin, and once the secretion increases, it inhibits the development of human gonads. Medical scientists have found that pineal cells are affected by light, with darkness enhancing its activity and light inhibiting it.
The human pineal gland generally reaches its peak development in mid-childhood, thus inhibiting the premature development of the gonads. However, from the age of 7-10, the pineal gland begins to degenerate and sexual function slowly increases. Excessive light exposure in children can lead to premature sexual maturation by reducing the secretion of melatonin from the pineal gland. This increased light can come from both sunlight and light, especially the widespread use of artificial light, but also greatly changed the routine of people’s lives. According to statistics, in the past hundred years, the age of female maturity has been advancing, almost every 12 years 4 months earlier, male sexual maturity age is also much earlier, the impact of its lights must not be taken lightly.
9, fashion diet to eat precocious sexual maturity: a large number of surveys show that many foods are related to precocious sexual maturity. Precocious children love to eat meat (all kinds of meat), child nutrition liquid and food, health products and supplements, although these various foods may be “suspicious”, but so far with the study confirmed only ginseng royal jelly, it does cause premature sexual maturity of children.
Some hormones in food, especially meat, such as estrogen, growth hormone, various antibiotics, food additives, ripening agents for vegetables and fruits (such as vinblastine and abscisic acid), etc., are not only associated with precocious puberty in children, but also with early puberty and various civilization diseases today, such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc.
Poultry meat, especially the neck, the vast majority of poultry sold on the market today is fed with feed mixed with rapid growth agents, the “maturation promoter” residues in poultry meat is mainly concentrated in the glands of the head and neck part of poultry, therefore, eating the neck of chicken, duck and goose, it becomes “precocious Therefore, eating the necks of chickens, ducks and geese becomes a high-risk behavior for “precocious puberty”.
The anti-seasonal vegetables and fruits, such as strawberries, grapes, watermelon and tomatoes in winter, and pears, apples, oranges and peaches in late spring, are almost always anti-seasonal or ripen early with the help of “ripening promoters” and must be avoided for young children.
Fried foods, especially fried chicken, French fries and potato chips, excessive heat will be transformed into excess fat in children’s bodies, triggering endocrine disruption and leading to precocious puberty; moreover, cooking oil is repeatedly heated and used, the high temperature makes its oxidation and denaturation, which is also one of the causes of “precocious puberty”. Children who visit foreign fast food more than twice a week and often eat fried puffed food are 2.5 times more likely to have “precocious puberty” than ordinary children.
Certain oral liquids for children, many of the supplements and oral liquids marketed for children that are advertised as “tall and strong” contain a significant portion of hormones. These hormones make children grow taller and stronger than children of the same age at the age of five or six, and their bone age has reached 8 or 10 years old. But when the child enters the normal development stage, but do not see the growth.
The great tonic foods that can be used in medicine include cordyceps, ginseng, dried cinnamon, dried lychee, astragalus, sage and so on. Chinese medicine points out that the more tonic type of medicine, the easier it is to change the normal endocrine environment of the child, resulting in an imbalance in physical and mental development.
10, the influence of the social environment: now the various communication media in society, such as television, movies, newspapers, magazines and other content, and sex-related content than before, significantly increased, children are influenced, involuntarily by the subtle influence, they are generally “enlightened” earlier than the previous generation. Since there is a rich neural connection between the cerebral cortex and the hypothalamus, the start of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis is brought forward accordingly.