What to do if your child has low testosterone

Testosterone-related diseases can affect not only adult men and women, but children as well. They can be divided into congenital and acquired types. Generally speaking, children with low testosterone are suffering from congenital maternal genetic infection. If it is not treated, it will have a certain impact on the child's future life and appearance. Therefore, children should be given regular physical examinations to prevent the occurrence of this disease. The normal testosterone level in children is <8.8nmol/L.

Testosterone physiological effects

1. Affect embryonic development and promote the growth and development of male accessory organs. Testosterone can stimulate the growth and development of accessory organs such as the prostate, penis, scrotum, and bulbourethral glands.

2. Stimulate the growth of reproductive organs and the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics. Testosterone can stimulate and maintain male secondary sexual characteristics, and can also produce and maintain normal sexual desire.

3. Maintain spermatogenesis. After testosterone is secreted from interstitial cells, it can penetrate the basement membrane into the seminiferous tubules, bind to the corresponding receptors of spermatogenic cells, and promote sperm production.

4. Affect metabolism. Testosterone can promote protein synthesis, especially protein synthesis in muscles and bones; affect water and salt metabolism, which is beneficial to the retention of water and sodium in the body; and increase calcium and phosphorus deposition in bones.

5. In addition, testosterone can stimulate the production of red blood cells and increase the number of red blood cells in the body.

treat

There are many external factors that cause low testosterone in children, such as the child’s current age and whether he or she is obese. It is possible for children who have not reached puberty to have low testosterone, which is different from the low testosterone levels in adults. Parents can communicate more with their children, as emotions can also have an impact on children.

Influence

1. Precocious puberty: idiopathic male precocious puberty and familial male precocious puberty.

2. Adrenal diseases: adrenal cortical hyperplasia, adrenal cortical tumors (adenocarcinoma increases significantly, adenoma also often increases).

3. Testicular diseases: testicular tumors, testicular feminization.

4. Others: pineal tumor, idiopathic hirsutism, hypothyroidism, androgen, HCG and estrogen treatment are moderate.