16-month-old Saigon girl has gone through puberty, the unexpected cause from the mother makes everyone stunned

This special case has just been reported by Dr. BS Huynh Thi Vu Quynh – Deputy Head of the Department of Pediatrics (Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy), Head of the Department of Nephrology and Endocrinology at Children’s Hospital 2, HCMC. about Early Puberty was held in HCMC.

Doctor Quynh said that the patient was still very young, only about 16 months old, but had vaginal bleeding and large breasts, so the family took him to the hospital for examination and treatment at the Department of Internal Medicine.

After doing the necessary tests, as well as taking care history from the family, the doctors conducted a consultation and diagnosed the girl with precocious puberty. According to the mother of the child, the mother had previously used a drug to make nipples pink, this drug contains estrogen, the use of which lasted for several months. The time of using the drug to make the breast pink, the mother is still breastfeeding, which causes the child to absorb estrogen directly into the body, so it leads to early puberty.

Doctor Quynh said that after determining that the child had peripheral precocious puberty, the doctor conducted treatment and advised the mother to stop taking the drug to make the nipple pink, since then the child’s symptoms also decreased. forward.

Early puberty is caused by many reasons, sometimes from the subjectivity of parents. Illustration.

Currently, the status of children with early puberty is of concern to many parents. Many people worry that their children won’t be able to grow up early or will be affected psychologically… Dr. Vu Quynh said that parents’ worries are completely right, because early puberty in children will entail a lot of problems. Issues such as early bone closure, children will limit their growth or early puberty, later menopause will be earlier. In addition, children with early puberty will face psychological effects, even the risk of sexual abuse because of the unequal physical and mental development of children.

According to Dr. Quynh, precocious puberty is a condition in which a child develops secondary sexual characteristics that mark sexual maturity earlier than normal. In girls, it is less than 8 years old (menarche before 9.5-10 years old) and before 9 years old in boys.

The common point in both sexes is that children will be tall, fast, and grow armpit and pubic hair. In girls, breasts become enlarged, menstruating (vaginal bleeding). In boys, testicles and penis enlarge, mustaches, muscle growth, body odor, and ejaculation occur.

In addition, many risk factors for precocious puberty are genetic mutations, inherited when parents have early puberty, obesity (obviously in girls) or children’s exposure to plastics and pesticides, metals. heavy…

During the examination, Dr. Quynh received many questions from parents about whether feeding their children a lot of meat and drinking a lot of milk is the cause of early puberty. Because of this thought, when some children are diagnosed with precocious puberty, their parents abstain from eating meat and drinking milk…

“This has not been proven yet, when the meat enters the stomach it will decompose, it is a protein in nature, not like sex hormones, so it does not directly cause early puberty. Therefore, it is not correct in terms of evidence to advise children with early puberty not to drink milk and not to eat meat.

However, in a certain capacity it can indirectly cause early puberty, for example, eating too much meat, drinking too much milk causes obesity, which obesity is identified as one of the integers. Factors that cause early puberty in children. Again, meat or dairy is not the direct cause of early puberty,” shared Dr.