The main symptoms of precocious puberty in children in recent years

In recent years, the number of patients with precocious puberty has become more and more severe. Many diseases have attacked children, especially in early childhood. Parents will find problems with their children's height development. Compared with children of the same age, children's height development is earlier. This makes many parents overly worried and do not know how to check their children. So what are the main symptoms of precocious puberty in children in recent years?

What are the symptoms of precocious puberty in children?

Recently, people have been paying more attention to the issue of precocious puberty in children. This has also reminded some new parents that they should pay attention to the development of their baby and discover problems as early as possible so that they can be solved in time. Here we will talk about the symptoms of precocious puberty for boys and girls respectively.

1. Secondary sexual characteristics appear prematurely and progress according to the normal developmental program, with symptoms developing at varying speeds.

Girls: Breast development, height growth, pubic hair development, and menarche usually occurs 2 years after breast development begins.

Boys: Enlargement of the testicles and penis, sudden increase in height, development of pubic hair, and voice changes and nocturnal emissions usually occur 2 years after the testicles begin to enlarge.

2. There is evidence of gonadal development, with the testicular volume of girls being ≥4 ml as judged by B-ultrasound images and that of boys being ≥4 ml.

3. During the development process, the height growth rate is accelerated, and there is an imbalance between mental development and physical development.

4. Gonadotropin increases to pubertal levels.

5. Bone age may be advanced, resulting in early epiphyseal closure and premature cessation of growth, resulting in a shorter final height, but this is not diagnostically specific.

Those caused by intracranial lesions may have symptoms of intracranial hypertension. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia causes hypertension and water and electrolyte disorders.

The physical signs mainly focus on secondary sexual characteristics, breast size, pubic hair, axillary hair, testicle size, penis length, height growth, abnormal increase in head circumference (hydrocephalus), neurological signs, abdominal palpation of girls to pay attention to ovarian tumors, unilateral testicular enlargement in boys should exclude testicular tumors, and precocious puberty in men should pay attention to adrenal cortical hyperplasia or tumors.

It is recommended that new parents learn more about the symptoms of precocious puberty in children. If they find that their baby has a problem, they must go to a regular hospital for examination in time to ensure the baby's normal development. Knowing the symptoms of precocious puberty in children can better achieve early detection and early treatment.

Further reading: How to prevent children from precocious puberty

1. Educate your children not to take medicine casually. Clinically, many children with pseudo-precocious puberty are caused by taking birth control pills by mistake. Therefore, on the one hand, contraceptives at home should be properly kept. To prevent children from taking medicine by mistake, on the other hand, we should educate children not to take medicine casually.

2. Since children and adolescents are in an important stage of growth and development, they should pay special attention to dietary nutrition and consume enough protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, etc. every day to ensure the body's growth needs. However, children should not take any tonic medicine, and tonic products such as ginseng and royal jelly should not be taken by children.

In recent years, many children are often troubled by problems such as precocious puberty. Generally speaking, children's precocious puberty is closely related to taking medicines indiscriminately or eating some bad food. Milk powder is also a kind of food that can easily lead to precocious puberty. In the face of the problem of precocious puberty in children in recent years, we first recommend that parents pay active attention to their children's nipples, rapid breast development, armpit hair and pubic hair problems.