In recent years, the incidence of precocious puberty has been increasing at an alarming rate, causing more and more concern among parents.
Precocious puberty is a common endocrine disorder in children. Precocious puberty in children refers to the early age of initial pubertal development. Precocious puberty is considered to occur when girls develop visible sexual breasts before the age of 8, and when boys have developed secondary sexual characteristics such as throat nodes and a lowered voice before the age of 9.
What are the conditions to suspect precocious puberty in children?
You should pay attention when the following conditions are found in girls.
1. Painful breasts with a nucleus when touched;
2, the appearance of breast bulge phenomenon, or nipple protrusion, color change; have pubic hair; vaginal discharge appears a small amount; height growth accelerated.
3, when found that male babies have the following conditions appear you should pay attention to.
4, penis growth; testicular enlargement; there are frequent penile erection phenomenon; height growth accelerated.
Suggestions: parents should always bathe with their children, so that adults can not only understand the growth of children in a very natural situation, at any time to observe the development of children, but also to promote parent-child communication.
How to prevent your child from precocious sexual maturity?
1, do not give the child indiscriminate supplement, randomly take those so-called “health care”, “tonic”, especially avoid a large number or long-term taking. If your child has nutritional knockout symptoms, parents should consult with a professional doctor to develop a scientific and reasonable nutritional recipe.
2, do not worry about their own height affect the child and “anxiety”, blindly take the market “height enhancers”. Parents should go through the professional way, clear diagnosis, the right medicine.
3. Don’t give children lead-lowering drugs at will. Although it is clinically believed that “precocious puberty” is somewhat related to lead poisoning, parents must not give their children all kinds of lead-lowering drugs indiscriminately, which may lead to lead deficiency in children’s body and play a hollow role in their growth. If you suspect that your child has lead poisoning, you should go to a regular hospital to have a blood lead test and lower lead reasonably under the guidance of a doctor. Secondary lead poisoning can be corrected by giving the right amount of zinc and calcium supplements without lead detoxification.
How to distinguish between true and false precocious puberty?
True precocious puberty: It is caused by early activation of hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis, the mechanism of which is the same as normal.
Pseudo-precocious puberty: It is caused by abnormal excessive sources of sex hormones outside the body; in vivo factors are caused by lesions of peripheral endocrine glands (gonads or adrenal cortex); in vitro factors are mostly due to misuse of sex hormone-containing drugs and foods, nutritional products, use of cosmetics containing sex hormones, and mother taking drugs containing gonadotropic hormones during pregnancy or lactation.
What are the causes of precocious puberty in children?
Precocious puberty has the following four types of causes
1, hormone intake Most children with precocious puberty at a young age have a relatively clear history of hormone intake. For example, birth control pills, certain health care products, and some foods that are fattened by hormones. Especially some fatty fish, thick eels and fatty foreign chicken. In addition, like some gynecological tonic things, children are also not suitable to eat, such as cinnamon.
2, environmental factors Today flooded around the plastic, white foam and decoration materials, often resulting in an acidic environment, which can easily lead to changes in the body’s hormone levels. At the same time, research has found that the age of development and death of people in the tropics are earlier than those in the colder regions, the Earth’s environment is warming, and Nanjing has been getting warmer every year over the years, which also has an impact.
3, diet structure Nowadays, children’s diet structure is dominated by meat, which not only increases the possibility of indirect intake of hormones, but also makes people easily fat, and obese children are more likely to have premature maturity.
4, visual pollution One is the increasingly serious light pollution, according to reports, 24-hour lighting may also induce precocious puberty; the second is the increasingly serious information pollution from the external media, such as too many love scenes in the television now, which not only cause the child’s psychological precociousness, but also easily induce their physiological precociousness.