What should I do if I have precocious puberty?

Precocious puberty is a phenomenon that has emerged in recent years. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, and the situation and reasons for each child's precocious puberty are different. However, the only thing in common is that the harm to children is particularly serious. What should we do after a child has precocious puberty? Through the following article, we will make some necessary understanding, hoping to attract the attention of parents.

1. Western medicine treatment of precocious puberty

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 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.

2. Treatment of precocious puberty with traditional Chinese medicine

From the dialectical theory of traditional Chinese medicine, they believe that the pathogenic hormones of precocious puberty are kidney yin deficiency and excessive fire. The so-called kidney in traditional Chinese medicine does not mainly refer to the kidney in modern medicine, but refers 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 symptoms of yin deficiency and excessive fire to varying degrees, and they can be given traditional Chinese medicine to nourish kidney yin and relieve fire. Based on the child's clinical manifestations, analyze through the child's symptoms, tongue coating, and pulse, which is what Chinese medicine calls syndrome differentiation and treatment.

After understanding the above, everyone has a certain understanding of what to do if they suffer from precocious puberty. After a child shows signs of precocious puberty, it is wisest to seek medical attention in a timely manner. As parents, we should pay attention to preventing children from having precocious puberty in normal times. This is the most fundamental and effective way, and we must pay special attention to it.