There are certain rules for human physiological development, and there are also certain rules for the development of human sexual organs and sexual characteristics. Why does precocious puberty occur? Because human growth and development is directly controlled by the brain and hypothalamus on the endocrine system, which can make the sexual system develop normally. If the control of the endocrine system is affected for some reason, the regularity of sexual development can be disrupted, resulting in precocious puberty or delayed sexual development.
Precocious puberty is becoming more and more common
Girls at age 3 have developed breasts, girls at age 4 have menstruated, and boys at age 5 have grown beards. Although these cases are isolated, they represent a phenomenon of precocious puberty. Compared with these cases, more precocious sexual maturity seems to have been ignored long ago. Some experts say that the pace of sexual maturity in Chinese children has accelerated in the past few years, and it is years earlier than before.
Precocious sexual maturity is closely related to these factors
1, the brain has had some kind of lesions. Such as tuberculous meningitis and other sequelae, resulting in adhesions in the hypothalamus at the base of the skull, precocious sexual maturity can occur.
2, cranial trauma, such as skull base fracture, serious birth injury.
3.Family history.
4.Adrenocortical hyperplasia, adrenocortical tumor, gonadal function tumor, chorioepithelial carcinoma, etc. can cause precocious puberty. The reason is that the lesion and tumor itself can secrete gonadotropic hormones or promote gonadotropic hormones, and cause the development of sex organs.
5.Precocious precocious puberty can be caused by children mistakenly taking their mothers’ contraceptive pills.
Precocious puberty is also divided into “real” and “fake”?
I. True precocious puberty
”Hypothalamus – pituitary – gonadal axis” function in advance of maturity, and has reproductive function. True precocious puberty includes: somatic precocious puberty, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia and adrenal-gonadal syndrome.
The actual sexual maturation process is similar to the normal sexual development process, but it happens earlier and the process progresses faster. 80% of females and about 40% of males belong to this type of sexual precociousness. This kind of patients can be taller than children of the same age at the beginning, but the epiphysis closes early, and the stature is very short in adulthood.
2. 40% of patients with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia have precocious puberty, and almost all of them are female.
3, adrenal-gonadal syndrome is a relatively common precocious puberty. Due to congenital defects in the adrenal glands, patients secrete too much androgen, resulting in female heterosexual precocious puberty (i.e. masculinization of girls). If it occurs in males, it shows penis enlargement, pubic hair, axillary hair growth, but testes do not develop; muscle development, but early closure of the skeleton.
Second, pseudosexual precocious puberty
It is the second sign that appears due to certain diseases that make the body produce a lot of sex hormones or receive a lot of exogenous sex hormones. Common causes include gonadal tumors, adrenal tumors, and the effects of oral contraceptives. Pseudoprecocious puberty has no reproductive function.
Partial precocious puberty
It only shows the precocious phenomenon of a certain sexual sign, such as the early appearance of simple pubic hair, simple breast development, etc. The rest are in prepubertal state. It is mostly seen in females. The reason may be due to the sensitivity of a certain part of the body to sex hormones.
Food safety should not be ignored to cure “precocious puberty”
Precocious puberty has complex causes
Precocious puberty is a phenomenon with complex causes. The improvement of the standard of living and the complication of the social environment all have a certain impact on it. However, an important factor that cannot be ignored is the food problem.
A wide variety of foods and excessive intake of estrogen in children
Why is the phenomenon of premature sexual maturity in children increasing? As one expert in Xuzhou analyzed: it is caused by excessive consumption of foods with high estrogen content. Foods with high estrogen content mainly include soy milk, honey, ripe fruits, short-term farmed mature snapper and chicken and duck. It is impossible to completely eliminate these foods, and all parents can do is to let their children “eat as little as possible”. After all, children can not eat with their parents, but also can not survive in a food vacuum.
Children’s food regulatory standards are low, directly leading to premature sexual maturity phenomenon
What is children’s food in our country? Children’s food seems to be synonymous with “food that children like”. In fact, children’s food should be “child-friendly food”, “healthy for children” food. For the supervision of children’s food, we need to raise to a higher standard. Unfortunately, many children’s food additives have no bottom line, the taste is modulated, the color is modulated, the pulp is modulated. The most frightening thing is that there are many food additions that are harmful to sexual development, directly leading to premature sexual maturity.