How to treat precocious puberty?

Generally, children need a certain amount of nutrients to promote their growth during their growth process, which can be helpful to a certain extent. However, some parents will give their children excessive nutrition supplements, which results in the inability to digest the nutrients in their bodies, and instead leads to overnutrition. The first complication after overnutrition is precocious puberty.

Experts believe that most cases of precocious puberty can be cured, but early detection and timely treatment of precocious puberty are very important. Timely and effective treatment can not only prevent the further development of secondary sexual characteristics, reverse existing secondary sexual characteristics, and enable children to achieve a normal psychological state and the desired adult height, but also discover and treat the primary disease that causes precocious puberty through the diagnosis and treatment of precocious puberty.

Once precocious puberty is diagnosed and the cause can be found, treatment for the cause should be given. For cancer patients, early diagnosis and surgical treatment should be sought. Hypothyroidism can be treated with thyroid hormones, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia can be treated with glucocorticoids.

For patients with idiopathic precocious puberty, medroxyprogesterone acetate, 100-200 mg, can be used for intramuscular injection once every 1-2 weeks, or chlormadinone acetate can be taken orally, 1-2 mg per day. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone has a good therapeutic effect. After treatment, female children’s menstruation stops and their breasts shrink. After treatment, male children’s sperm production is inhibited and nocturnal emission disappears.

Special attention should be paid to psychological treatment for such children. They should be given more medical knowledge education so that they can understand that the changes in their bodies are merely the early arrival of physiological development, and eliminate their concerns such as shyness and anxiety. Management should be strengthened to avoid unexpected events such as pregnancy. The youngest mother in the world is only 5 and a half years old and is a patient of precocious puberty.

Precocious puberty is an abnormal growth and development condition characterized by the early onset of puberty characteristics, such as breast development in girls before the age of 8 and menstruation before the age of 10. Most cases of precocious puberty in girls are of unknown causes, but in a few cases they are caused by pituitary tumors. In addition, there is exogenous precocious puberty caused by foods or drugs containing sex hormones. Therefore, if necessary, it is also necessary to do an ultrasound examination of the uterus and ovaries, and to draw blood for endocrine function tests and a magnetic resonance imaging of the pituitary gland to further clarify the developmental status. Because children with precocious puberty enter puberty early but their intelligence and sexual psychology are not yet mature, they are prone to social problems and place mental and life burdens on their parents. In addition, because the bone growth of children is accelerated, although they are temporarily taller than other children of the same age, their bones close prematurely, and they are often shorter than normal people in adulthood. Therefore, after diagnosis, drug treatment is required. Exogenous precocious puberty does not require treatment, just stop taking related drugs or foods.

This article will introduce in detail how to treat precocious puberty. Once this disease is diagnosed and the cause of the disease is found, it can be treated. As long as the treatment is timely, the effect is very good, and it can even allow your child to return to a normal height.