Sexual Health
A 3-year-old girl actually treats birth control pills as candy. Be wary of excessive use of birth control pills leading to precocious puberty
A 3-year-old girl has gained weight, and her parents initially did not pay attention to her chest development, thinking that her child had gained weight. But one day, Mom came on her period break, and the parents realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately took the child to see a doctor. The doctor heard that eating the contraceptive pills at home as candy in the stomach can lead to false precocious puberty.
Contraceptive pills contain estrogen, which can accumulate in a child's body to a certain level after ingestion, and can cause symptoms of precocious puberty in a short period of time. In addition, there is a difference between true and false precocious puberty in children. False puberty generally involves the intake of exogenous hormones, and as long as the source is cut off, there is generally no need for special treatment. After observation for a period of time, the symptoms will disappear. What really needs to be treated is central precocious puberty, which is also a common type of precocious puberty in children nowadays, and requires long-term observation and treatment by doctors. She reminds parents that once they discover signs of precocious puberty in their children, they should take them to the doctor as soon as possible and choose the correct treatment plan based on the cause.
How to prevent and solve precocious puberty in children?
1. To prevent the occurrence of precocious puberty, parents should be careful not to give their children chicken, beef, lamb, silkworm pupae, etc., and not to abuse children's food that has not been strictly inspected. Whether it is a short child or a precocious child, it is best to have a balanced diet in terms of diet. That is to say, a reasonable combination of meat and vegetables, and a balanced intake of coarse and fine grains. Overall, the recipes are quite extensive. Some parents, after discovering their children's precocious puberty, limit their children's diet to too much is also not good. As children during their growth and development period, basic nutrients still need to be guaranteed.
2. Do not give children excessive use of nutritional supplements, such as royal jelly, pollen preparations, chicken embryos, and other "supplements". Store contraceptives, breast enhancement and beauty products properly to prevent children from taking or coming into contact with them by mistake.
3. Early detection and timely treatment. In addition to mastering necessary medical knowledge, guardians should also pay attention to observing whether the child has secondary sexual characteristics, sudden acceleration of height in children under 10 years old, and other phenomena. If abnormalities are found, they should immediately seek medical attention from a regular hospital. The vast majority of precocious puberty can be cured, but early detection and timely treatment of precocious puberty are very important. Timely and effective treatment can not only prevent the further development of secondary sexual characteristics, but also reverse existing secondary sexual characteristics, enabling the child to achieve a normal psychological state and expected adult height. Pathological precocious puberty after diagnosis and treatment of the underlying cause. This traditional Chinese medicine strengthens the spleen and assists in qi circulation, dissipates phlegm and promotes qi flow, and the spleen strengthens phlegm but does not produce it. It is the foundation of treatment, nourishing the kidney and clearing heat, cold and strengthening yin, preventing and treating excessive movement, deficiency fire damage to true yin, and soothing the liver, promoting qi, purging fire, and dispersing nodules. Treating both symptoms and root causes, promoting the circulation of qi and resolving phlegm, resolving stagnation, reviving yin and jin, self regression of pathogenic heat, and slow weather. Eliminate the secondary characteristics of various precocious children in a short period of time, delay bone age growth, and ultimately improve children's height.