Children’s precocious puberty affects their physical and mental health. What does the doctor say？
Evening News (Reporter Yan Li) For children who have not yet entered adolescence, precocious puberty is not a good thing, so many parents are concerned about it. Huang Le, chief physician of endocrinology department of Tianjin Children’s Hospital, suggested that the appearance of precocious puberty will not only hinder children’s growth and development, but also affect their physical and mental health.
A sign of precocious puberty
The precocious puberty signals of boys and girls are very different. Generally speaking, girls develop puberty before the age of 8 or boys before the age of 9, which can be preliminarily judged as precocious puberty. If a girl has breast enlargement, pubic hair growth, armpit hair growth, vaginal discharge increase before the age of 8 or menstruation before the age of 10, parents should pay attention to any of these changes, which is the signal of precocious puberty of girls. Before the age of 9, if boys have testicles and penises growing up, scrotal skin folds increase and the color deepens, penile erection increases, and even some boys produce semen, these are all signs of precocious puberty in boys.
In addition, children’s precocious puberty has several characteristics, such as sudden increase in height, obvious development in a short time, and may have symptoms such as headache, vomiting and blurred vision. If children who have not entered adolescence have the above phenomenon, parents should also pay attention to it in time.
The harm of precocious puberty
The most obvious harm of precocious puberty is that it may affect the height of children. Adolescence is the fastest stage of children’s growth and development. If children have precocious puberty before puberty, it may affect their height development. Clinical cases show that some children with precocious puberty will greatly slow down their growth rate and their height will be shorter than that of normal children.
Secondly, precocious puberty will affect children’s mental health, and children with precocious puberty may have some physical differences with children of the same age, which will have an impact on children’s psychology.
Furthermore, precocious puberty may affect the development of children’s reproductive system. With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards and the improvement of dietary nutrition, children’s sexual development is now relatively advanced, so parents need to pay more attention to this aspect. In addition, the causes of children’s precocious puberty are complicated and influenced by many factors such as heredity, diet and environment, so it is more necessary to seek medical treatment as soon as possible, otherwise it is likely to affect the child’s future development.
Prevention of precocious puberty
In order to avoid precocious puberty, parents can adjust their children from the aspects of diet, exercise and sleep.
Parents should pay attention to balance their children’s diet, and don’t have to deliberately emphasize fineness. It’s best to eat coarse grains and flour and rice in a balanced way. The doctor suggested that children should eat less snacks and eat some fruits in addition to the normal three meals a day, but they should not delay the dinner. Parents should drive their children to exercise moderately. Doctors suggest that when the weather is fine, parents should take their children outdoors for at least one hour at a time. Parents should urge their children to get enough sleep every day and try to sleep around 21 o’clock. Children generally need 10 to 12 hours of sleep every day, and at least 9 to 10 hours of quality sleep should be guaranteed.
In addition, doctors remind parents that if children are found to have precocious puberty, they should go to regular hospitals in time, be tested by scientific diagnostic methods such as hormone level, B-ultrasound and CT, and be treated according to the doctor’s advice.