What happens if precocious puberty is not treated?

Most people may be familiar with the term precocious puberty. This is a term that can often be heard from pediatricians. The so-called precocious puberty refers to the obvious developmental symptoms of puberty in children who have not reached puberty. This has to make many parents worry, especially since some snacks available on the market are very unsafe. If eaten frequently, it is likely to lead to precocious puberty. However, once precocious puberty occurs, parents do not know how to seek treatment, which will only cause more serious harm to the children's bodies.

True precocious puberty has many impacts on children's physical and mental health. For girls, the most important manifestations are shorter adult height and early menarche. The specific extent of the impact is related to factors such as the age of onset of precocious puberty, the severity of the disease, and the speed of disease progression.

Find out whether it is true or false precocious puberty, and what causes it. The treatment drug recommended at home and abroad is gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs, which have a definite effect. This drug should be used under the guidance of a doctor. It is recommended that you take her to the hospital for treatment. It is recommended to do an LHRH stimulation test to distinguish whether it is central precocious puberty (true) or peripheral precocious puberty (false), and then decide on the treatment plan.

Accelerated bone maturation may eventually lead to a lifetime height lower than the target height. When accompanied by central nervous system lesions such as intracranial tumors, there may be headaches, vomiting, vision changes or other neurological symptoms and signs. McCune-Albright syndrome may have bone pseudocysts, deformations and fractures, and may be accompanied by hyperfunction of the thyroid, adrenal glands, pituitary gland and parathyroid glands, manifested as nodular goiter, hyperthyroidism, adrenal nodular hyperplasia, excessive secretion of growth hormone producing gigantism or acromegaly, etc. Exogenous sex hormones can cause breast enlargement, vaginal bleeding, and ovarian cysts.

Cyproterone acetate (androcur, cyprostat, cyproterone acetate) is a derivative of 17-hydroxyprogesterone. It has strong anti-androgenic effects and progestin activity. It can inhibit the secretion of gonadotropin. It was widely used in Europe to treat precocious puberty. The dosage is 100 mg/m2, taken orally in 2 to 3 times. It can inhibit the secretion of LH stimulated by GnRH, thereby reducing the level of sex hormones and causing breast shrinkage, but its effectiveness in causing the final growth toward height in adulthood remains to be determined.

Therefore, precocious puberty must be treated after it occurs. If it is not treated, the child's life and study will be affected. They will have no mood to concentrate on learning, and will become less and less cheerful. They will always feel that they are different from other children, so they will develop a very inferiority complex, which will make the child more autistic and even lead to autism.