What are the symptoms of precocious puberty in children?

Children's development cannot tolerate any mistakes, because problems during development will have a great impact on their future life. For example, precocious puberty in children is a manifestation of developmental abnormality. Precocious puberty may seem normal, but physiologically it is a manifestation of rapid development, which can easily add burden to the body and cause unnecessary consequences. Let's take a look at the symptoms of precocious puberty in children.

(1) Primary true precocious puberty: These refer to children with precocious puberty who cannot be diagnosed with pathological morphology. Most of them are girls, and the youngest can be as young as 1-2 years old. Both boys and girls have premature physical and skeletal development, precocious gonadal puberty and secondary sexual characteristics. The order of sexual characteristics appears normally, but at an earlier time. The growth of height and weight is accelerated, the epiphyses mature too quickly, the teeth and intelligence develop normally, and the excretion of 17-ketosteroids and estrogen in the urine increases.

(2) True precocious puberty with bone and skin symptoms , also known as Mccune-Albright syndrome, is characterized by fibrosis of long bones, skin pigmentation, and increased urinary excretion of 17-ketosteroids and estrogen. It mainly occurs in girls and does not require treatment. The condition stabilizes in adulthood.

(3) True precocious puberty due to intracranial lesions: Various intracranial tumors, cerebral edema, post-encephalitis scars, tuberculous meningitis, hydrocephalus, etc. can cause precocious puberty, and corresponding pathological symptoms will appear later.

(4) True precocious puberty due to other reasons: For example, malignant tumors may secrete gonadotropin-like hormones. Untreated cretinism may cause the brain to secrete a large amount of gonadotropin at the same time as thyroid-stimulating hormone before treatment. However, precocious puberty can be reduced in children after thyroid treatment.