Symptoms of precocious puberty in children

The phenomenon of precocious puberty in children is actually often encountered in today's life, and there are reports from time to time. In addition to some dietary problems in daily life, it is also related to some factors of the children themselves. Precocious puberty will actually have an adverse effect on their physical health, and it will also cause adverse harm to their future growth. Therefore, we must pay attention to it. Let's take a look at the manifestations of precocious puberty in children.

Parents are actually very worried during their children's growth process that their children may experience precocious puberty. Therefore, only if we understand more about the manifestations of these phenomena can we do a better job of prevention and ensure that children can grow up healthily and happily.

True precocious puberty

(1) Idiopathic precocious puberty: It is usually sporadic and more common in females (the ratio of female to male is approximately 4:1). A few cases may be familial (possibly autosomal recessive). The cause of the disease is unknown. Females usually develop the disease before the age of 8, in the following order: breast development first → pubic hair appearance → menstruation → axillary hair appearance, labia development (with pigmentation), and increased vaginal secretions.

Males begin sexual development before the age of 9, with enlargement of the testicles and penis, increase in wrinkles on the scrotal skin and darker pigmentation, increased penile erections and even sperm production, increased muscle mass and decreased subcutaneous fat.

Both sexes experience sudden growth in stature and advanced bone age, which may eventually lead to premature fusion of the epiphyses and shorten adult height. Psychosexual maturity also occurs earlier, and a few may have a history of sexual intercourse or pregnancy.

(2) Precocious puberty caused by central nervous system diseases: Its clinical manifestations are similar to those of idiopathic puberty, except that this type may also have manifestations related to organic lesions of the nervous system. Differentiation mainly relies on cranial X-ray, CT, MRI and other examinations.

(3) Primary hypothyroidism (Hypothyroidism) with precocious puberty: A small number of people who suffer from hypothyroidism before childhood may have precocious puberty. This may be due to the decrease in thyroid hormone levels, which weakens the negative feedback and increases the secretion of TRH in the hypothalamus. TRH not only stimulates the pituitary gland to secrete more TSH, but also stimulates the secretion of PRL, LH and FSH, leading to precocious puberty.

(4) Albright syndrome with precocious puberty: Patients have skeletal dysplasia, brown pigmentation spots on the skin of the trunk, and are often accompanied by precocious puberty. The cause is unknown. It is more common in girls and rarely in boys. The sequence of sexual development is different from normal: normal development is usually breast development → pubic hair growth → menstruation, while this disease is that menstruation comes first (the reproductive organs are mature) and then breast development.

The above are some symptoms of precocious puberty in children. I hope that from these introductions parents can have a more comprehensive understanding of this problem. When they are unable to deal with and solve it, they must not deal with and solve it blindly. Because that would easily cause more adverse harm to the child.