How to treat precocious puberty?

There are many children with precocious puberty who have not achieved good results after a long period of treatment. This is not because the treatment method is wrong, but because their daily life has not kept up with the pace of treatment during the treatment, and they have not changed their children’s previous bad living habits. Parents must be careful not to let their children eat fried foods or things containing hormones.

At present, in terms of drug treatment, gonadotropin-releasing hormone is the most effective drug for the treatment of true precocious puberty. This drug can downregulate the surface GnRh receptors of gonadotropin-releasing hormone cells, reduce the secretion of sex hormones, and reduce biological activity. This is the most effective, but it is often used for children with more serious symptoms. These children are only used when they reach the fourth or fifth stage of puberty or when menstruation comes.

Another drug, a progesterone derivative, can repeatedly inhibit the pituitary gland from producing sex hormones. This can delay the onset of menstruation, but it has little effect on delaying bone growth and development.

Another one is growth hormone. We use gonadotropin-releasing hormone to treat children with delayed bone fusion. It will undoubtedly buy precious time for children's height growth and help improve their final height. However, the use of these drugs will also slow down the peak speed of height growth. It can extend the time of your height growth, but the rate may slow down. In this case, sometimes combined with growth hormone treatment, the time is extended without reducing the rate, so that the entire genetic potential of height can be fully utilized.

In addition, children with low bone density can be given calcium and vitamin D treatment. In addition, for some secondary precocious puberty and pseudo-precocious puberty, such as 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.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine dialectical theory, they believe that the disease of precocious puberty is caused by deficiency of kidney yin and hyperactivity of fire. The so-called kidney in traditional Chinese medicine does not refer to the kidney in modern medicine, but to the neuroendocrine regulatory system of the body, including the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis. These regulatory axes start functioning prematurely and hyperactivity of the function in children. Children with these diseases all have varying degrees of symptoms of deficiency of yin and hyperactivity of fire. Traditional Chinese medicine that nourishes kidney yin and relieves fire can be given. According to the child's clinical manifestations, the child's symptoms, tongue coating, and pulse can be analyzed, which is what traditional Chinese medicine calls syndrome differentiation and treatment.

This article introduces in detail how to better treat precocious puberty. In fact, the most important thing is to use a combination of Chinese and Western medicine. Because if it is a single treatment, the effect is not as good as the combined treatment, and hormone drugs cannot be used.