What causes precocious puberty?

Children nowadays are spoiled by their parents, which leads to them being able to eat whatever they want. As a result, they become less and less fond of eating and instead prefer to eat junk food. They even have to turn on the lights before they go to bed, because if they don't, they will feel very scared. In fact, these are the causes of precocious puberty.

Common causes of true precocious puberty include idiopathic precocious puberty, intracranial tumors, primary hypothyroidism, etc. Pseudo-precocious puberty is caused by gonadal tumors, adrenal hyperplasia or tumors producing large amounts of sex hormones, or taking drugs and foods containing sex hormones. Clinically, true precocious puberty accounts for only a minority, while most children are pseudo-precocious puberty, and most of them can show simple one or several signs of sexual development.

One reason is that with the improvement of living standards, children's growth and development are accelerated. Children and adolescents are generally taller than the previous generation, and sexual development and sexual maturity tend to be earlier. According to the normal puberty development in the past, breasts began to develop at the age of 12 to 13, and menarche mostly occurred at the age of 15 to 16. However, the current generation of girls develop breasts at around 10 years old and menarche at 12 to 13 years old.

The second reason is the intake of food containing sex hormones or the mistaken use of birth control pills. In recent years, various health products and tonics have been launched on the market. Many parents take them as a health investment to increase nutrition and promote growth of their children, and often give them to young children for a long time. It has been confirmed that ginseng, royal jelly, pollen, chicken embryo, silkworm pupa, growth hormone, etc. all contain more sex hormones, and even gonadotropin-like substances.

The third reason is also an important one, namely environmental pollution. In recent years, a large number of scholars at home and abroad have reported that due to the emission of harmful substances and their decomposition substances into the environment by detergent, pesticide and plastic industry manufacturers, a series of environmental hormone pollutants have been produced in nature. In addition, organochlorine pesticides are rarely used now, but they were released in large quantities in farmland in the past, and their content in soil, water and plants is still high. After these pollutants are degraded to a certain extent in nature, they are found to have estrogen-like activity. Studies have shown that under the influence of environmental estrogen substances, whether it is vegetables, fruits, or meat foods, they all contain high doses of estrogen. The artificial use of hormones to feed poultry and livestock or to ripen fruits and vegetables is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

This article will give you a detailed introduction to what causes precocious puberty. Generally speaking, breasts will not begin to develop until the age of twelve or thirteen, but children with precocious puberty will begin to develop breasts before the age of eight, and may even have their first period, which can cause great psychological harm to them.