Is precocious puberty in children serious?

Precocious puberty was not very common in the past few years and was basically very rare in hospitals. However, nowadays, the cases of precocious puberty in children are increasing. Many parents may not be able to discover this condition in their children in time because the symptoms are not so obvious. However, if not treated early, it may cause more serious complications.

He is not tall. Due to the rapid development of bones, the growth cycle of children with precocious puberty will be significantly shortened, and there will not be enough time for development, which will ultimately make their height shorter than that of ordinary people when they grow up. About half of children with true precocious puberty will eventually grow to a height of less than 150cm.

Depressed personality. Children with precocious puberty may carry a heavy mental burden prematurely because they are different from their peers in body shape and appearance, and may develop feelings of inferiority, fear and anxiety, which will have a long-term negative impact on their mental health.

Endocrine disorders. Precocious puberty itself is an endocrine disease, but the degree of endocrine disorders in children varies from person to person, that is, there are differences in severity and urgency.

Children with mild symptoms mainly show imbalance in sex hormone levels, while children with severe symptoms will develop or be combined with other endocrine dysfunctions and show more clinical manifestations.

Children should not develop the habit of sleeping with the lights on, and should not often watch adult TV dramas. Because of the stimulation of sleeping with the lights on and adult TV dramas, the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis function may be activated prematurely, leading to precocious puberty.

Do not let children eat meat such as chicken and fish fed with hormones, fruits ripened with ripening agents, or vegetables grown with plant ripening agents, because these foods contain higher levels of hormone-like substances, called environmental endocrine disruptors, which have become a common cause of precocious puberty in children today.

The above article introduces to us in detail whether precocious puberty in children is serious. Precocious puberty is a disease that will directly endanger the healthy development of your children. Therefore, in daily life, do not let your children often go to bed with the lights on. If they go to bed with the lights on, it will also cause precocious puberty.