Precocious puberty is the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics such as pubic hair before the age of 8 in females and before the age of 9 in males, which is analyzed as follows:
1. Accelerated growth: children with precocious puberty will have the performance of faster growth rate and rapid weight gain.
2. Appearance of secondary sexual characteristics: girls appear breast development, pubic hair, axillary hair growth, menstruation before the age of 8. In boys, voice change, laryngeal nodes, beard growth, penis development, pubic and axillary hair growth, testicular enlargement, etc. occur before the age of 9.
Precocious puberty usually occurs before the age of 8 for girls and before the age of 9 for boys. If your child develops these symptoms early, you can go to the hospital and combine them with a bone age test and a hormone test to comprehensively assess whether it is precocious puberty.