Puberty "Praecox"

Age at start of puberty is influenced by a number of factors. The most dominant nutritional factors, environmental factors other than social. Children are now faster than mature sex old child. Improved nutrition in the daily menu, association, readings and spectacle accelerate the arrival of puberty. Normal faster girls 1-2 years into puberty than boys.

Puberty is marked by the appearance of breasts, wide hips, the higher a woman's voice and started menstruating (menarche), signs can already impregnated. Medium boys began mustache, broad shoulders and began to dream wet (wet dream), the sign can impregnate.

Sometimes puberty came early. If the age of 8 years children are already showing signs of secondary sexual and menstrual age of 10 years already, this possibility of early puberty. We call it puberty praecox. In the literature there is an age of 5 years 8 months already puberty.

Such cases need to be examined, there may be disturbances in the body's hormonal system. The process needs to be stopped early puberty with hormone drugs (hormone progesterone injection) to fight the release of sex hormones gonadotropin by the brain, the bones stop growing prematurely. If left unchecked, the long bones of the body will stop growing longer and the child so kontet. Ends of the bones have closed, so that children can not grow tall.

A small causes in the brain. Formed tumors in the hypothalamus or pituitary gland that gonadotropin hormone produced before his time. There was also Albright syndrome, in which one of the symptoms of early puberty as well. Other than that there are so-called early pseudopubertas if the emergence of the absence of gonadotropin activity, and expenditure does not occur the egg (ovulation). The cause was formed tumors in the ovaries, thus producing estrogen hormone that stimulate the emergence of signs of secondary sex and menstruation.