Children with precocious puberty must face 4 truths
Early puberty Currently, this is a worldwide situation, not excluding Vietnam. There are many cases of precocious puberty that are regularly checked in hospitals.
According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung (Former Head of Pediatrics Department, Bach Mai Hospital), children with early puberty are prone to shyness, low self-esteem and lack of confidence compared to their peers. This greatly affects the comprehensive development of children, their ability to socialize, study and play with their classmates…
“Whether it’s real precocious puberty or fake precocious puberty, the problem of early puberty is always a concern and fear of parents and has a significant impact on the child’s psychophysiology,” the expert affirmed. determined. Here are the consequences of early puberty that every parent should know.
4 harsh truths if you realize your child is going through puberty early
1. Children with early puberty will be short in the future
According to experts, early puberty is the cause of early bone growth and premature closure, making children short in adulthood.
Normally, girls will be 12cm shorter, boys 20cm shorter than their peers, going through puberty at the right age in adulthood.
2. Children with precocious puberty tend to have sex before adulthood
Early puberty will lead to early love, which in turn leads to the tendency to have sex before adulthood.
This leads to extremely scary consequences, especially for girls who are not fully equipped with knowledge about sexual health and reproductive health, which can lead to unwanted pregnancies, having to go through abortion… This seriously affects the baby’s psychophysiology not only in a day or two.
3. Girls with precocious puberty are easily affected by fertility
Girls have early puberty due to early endocrine disorders. This can cause polycystic ovary syndrome, which significantly affects the fertility of the child in the future.
4. Early puberty affects the quality of learning
Early puberty also affects the quality of children’s learning. This is for sure, if children are engrossed in dating, love, not paying attention to study, this can happen.
According to experts, early puberty causes scary consequences but not without solutions. It is best when you notice that your child has early signs of pubertyParents should not panic, take them to the hospital for timely examination and treatment. At the same time, parents need to pay attention and encourage them to avoid affecting the child’s psychophysiology, closely monitor their learning in order to make timely adjustments when seeing abnormalities…
So, what are the signs that your child is going through puberty early?
1. Sort by age
Precocious puberty in children is classified by age: in girls it is before age 8 and in boys it is before 10 years of age.
At this age, if you see signs of precocious puberty in your child, parents need to subtly recognize the signs of false precocious puberty and real precocious puberty.
2. Signs of false precocious puberty
Children with fake puberty have external signs like real puberty. Specifically:
– For girls: breasts grow big, have pubic hair… but the uterus doesn’t develop, doesn’t ovulate, and doesn’t have periods.
– For boys: loud voices, mustache grow, genital hair grows, testicles develop but no sperm production.
Causes of false puberty may be due to brain tumors, encephalitis, kidney and adrenal diseases…
3. Signs of really early puberty
Children with precocious puberty have the above recognition signs and add the following signs:
– In girls: menstruation, uterus, and ovaries develop.
In boys: ejaculation occurs…
Whether it’s real or fake puberty, experts recommend that parents take their children to a doctor as soon as possible after detecting signs of early puberty in their children.
This helps parents quickly detect the cause of the condition to treat the disease in time as well as intervene at the right time to reduce the process of early puberty, helping the child to grow up to the right level.
Early puberty can affect children’s psychology, so parents need to calm down, guide and teach their children to understand and coordinate with doctors to ensure the best comprehensive development of their children.
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