What are the treatments for precocious puberty?

Precocious puberty is a very common problem, which often occurs in childhood and generally affects the normal physiological and physical development of children, so many parents will panic. Most of the causes of precocious puberty are closely related to eating habits and bad living habits. Precocious puberty is generally divided into several treatment methods, drug treatment or traditional Chinese medicine treatment, so what are the treatment methods for precocious puberty?

Kong Yuanyuan: There are many types of treatment methods, and different treatments may be required based on the severity of the child’s condition and its classification. Currently, in terms of drug treatment, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is the most effective drug for the treatment of true precocious puberty. This drug can downregulate the GnRh receptors on the surface of gonadotropin-releasing hormone cells, thereby reducing the secretion of sex hormones and biological activity. This is the most effective drug, but it is often used on more serious children, those who have reached the fourth or fifth stage of puberty, or those who have just started menstruation.

Another drug, a progesterone derivative, can repeatedly inhibit the pituitary gland from producing sex hormones, which can delay the onset of menstruation, but it has little effect on delaying bone growth and development.

Another treatment is traditional Chinese medicine. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine dialectical theory, they believe that the cause of precocious puberty is kidney yin deficiency and excessive fire. The so-called kidney in traditional Chinese medicine does not refer mainly to the kidney in modern medicine, but to the body's neuroendocrine regulatory system, including the hypothalamic pituitary-gonadal axis. It means that these regulatory axes are activated prematurely and function hyperactivity. Children with this disease all have varying degrees of symptoms of yin deficiency and excessive fire. They can be given traditional Chinese medicine to nourish kidney yin and relieve fire. Some hospitals now have homemade traditional Chinese medicine.

Another is growth hormone. For children treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone, bone fusion is delayed, which undoubtedly buys precious time for the children's height growth and is beneficial to improving their final height. However, the use of these drugs will also slow down the peak rate of height growth. Your height growth time can be extended, but the rate may be slowed down. In this case, sometimes growth hormone treatment is used to extend the time without reducing the rate, thus unleashing the full genetic potential of height.

Another option is to add calcium supplements and vitamin D to the treatment for children with low bone density. In addition, for some secondary precocious puberty and false precocious puberty, such as those caused by tumors or primary diseases, the incidence of true precocious puberty caused by central nervous system tumors in boys is much higher than that in girls, so we must pay attention to boys.

Children will show some physical characteristics after experiencing precocious puberty, which makes many parents worry whether their children will be troubled by precocious puberty. For example, precocious puberty is said to be genetic. In addition, many diets and drinking bad milk powder may cause precocious puberty. It is recommended that parents do not let their children eat snacks or drink carbonated drinks at random.