What are the symptoms of precocious puberty in children?

Precocious puberty in children has become an issue of great concern to parents and society, because the situation of precocious puberty in children is particularly serious. Precocious puberty in children is a kind of early development beyond their own age, which is particularly harmful to children. Precocious puberty in children has certain manifestations. What are the specific manifestations? Let's learn about them through the following article, which can help us further understand the precocious puberty in children.

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 appearance, and menarche usually occurs 2 years after breast development begins.

Boys: Enlargement of the testicles and penis, sudden increase in height, appearance 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 closure of the epiphyseal bones and premature cessation of growth, resulting in a shorter final height.

Those caused by intracranial lesions may have symptoms of intracranial hypertension. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia may cause 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.

Through the above, we understand the manifestations of precocious puberty in children. The situation of precocious puberty in children cannot be ignored, and the harm of precocious puberty to children is particularly serious. It will not only affect the child's final height, but also cause psychological barriers to the child. The consequences of these situations will have extremely serious impacts on the child's life, so parents and society should pay attention to it.