What are the manifestations of precocious puberty in boys?

I believe everyone knows what precocious puberty is. Precocious puberty has a great impact on children, so we recommend that parents and friends learn more about precocious puberty. Once they find that their children have symptoms of precocious puberty, parents must pay attention to it and send their children to the hospital for consultation in time. So what are the manifestations of precocious puberty in boys? Below we will introduce some aspects of boys' precocious puberty.

The characteristics of precocious puberty in girls are more obvious, such as early breast development, but parents may not be aware of the characteristics of precocious puberty in boys.

If a boy's testicles grow rapidly before the age of 9, and his external genitalia become like those of an adult; his bones develop prematurely, and he grows a beard, thick body hair, and pubic hair prematurely; and he has an enlarged Adam's apple, a low and rough voice, and acne on his skin; his areola becomes pigmented and enlarged; his nipples develop nodules and become swollen and painful; and he has sexual impulses towards the opposite sex, then he will be medically diagnosed as having precocious puberty.

Some of the characteristics of precocious puberty in boys can be discovered by parents, such as whether they have beards, body hair, areola pigmentation and other external features, but other characteristics cannot be accurately judged by the naked eye or touch, such as the development of boys' testicles, adrenal cortex and other parts, which require professional examinations in the hospital to accurately determine.

To prevent children from precocious puberty, Director Xue recommends not giving children supplements at will, eating a balanced diet, and eating less junk food; preventing children from coming into contact with drugs such as contraceptives; and trying to prevent children from coming into contact with pornographic information.

"Parents must pay attention to children with precocious puberty." Director Xue said that under the action of sex hormones, although children grow rapidly in height, it also promotes premature fusion of the epiphyses, which causes the height growth of children to stop earlier than normally developing children. In adulthood, they are shorter than normal people. At the same time, due to premature development, children will feel that they are different from their peers, which will have a great impact on their mental health.

In the above article, we introduced what precocious puberty is. We know that precocious puberty has a great impact on children, so parents should pay attention to symptoms such as their children's precocious puberty. The above article gives us a detailed introduction to the manifestations of precocious puberty in boys.