Patient's question:
The baby is eleven months old, with protruding breasts and underarm hair. Today, I took the baby to see a doctor, and the diagnosis revealed precocious puberty. It has been two months since the discovery, and there has been no treatment history or effect.Why is the baby experiencing precocious puberty at eleven months? How is precocious puberty treated? Can it be treated?
Doctor's answer:
Precocious puberty is a common endocrine disorder in children: 1. Precocious puberty refers to the secondary characteristic of menarche before the age of 8 in girls, before the age of 9 in boys, or before the age of 10 in girls. 2. True precocious puberty is caused by the premature activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Pseudo-precocious puberty: caused by an abnormal excess of sources of sex hormones; incomplete precocious puberty: only breast or pubic hair development, without the development of its sexual characteristics. Endocrine tests show that the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis is not activated, and bone age is normal. 3. Therefore, children with precocious puberty should have their underlying causes identified carefully, and undergo cranial magnetic resonance imaging, carpal bone age, gonadal ultrasound, and endocrine hormone level measurements, etc., to confirm the diagnosis. The treatment of precocious puberty varies depending on the cause and the treatment method.