It's almost spring in a blink of an eye, and the baby is in the golden period of growth, and many parents are beginning to wonder: what to make up for the baby to grow taller?
But the big tonic health products you give your baby are likely to be the baby's "ripening agent"!
No, a 2-year-old girl's breasts have already reached the level of a 10-year-old!
According to survey data released by the China Health Promotion and Education Association last year, the rate of precocious puberty among children in mainland China has soared year by year, with about 530,000 children diagnosed with precocious puberty across the country.
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The actual data must be more, because there are still many children who are not diagnosed because they are "unaware", and [precocious puberty] ranks second among children's endocrine diseases, second only to obesity.
In daily life, how can we avoid our baby's precocious puberty?
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How can you tell if you have precocious puberty?
Before the age of 8 for a female baby and before the age of 9 for a male baby, there are secondary sexual characteristics accompanied by symptoms of accelerated physique, which is precocious puberty, and it is easy to remember that it is "female 8 male 9".
For specific symptoms, see the following figure:
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In addition, regardless of men and women, if the height of a 3~6-year-old baby increases by more than 8 cm a year, it is necessary to consider whether there is a tendency to precocious puberty.
Some female babies simply have enlarged breasts, or male babies simply have enlarged testicles, which is not what we call "precocious puberty", but "micropuberty".
To put it simply, when the mother is pregnant, the hormones in the body need to reach a high level in order to maintain the normal pregnancy, and this high hormone level will inhibit the secretion of sex hormones by the baby in the womb.
After the baby is born, it is free from this inhibition, so the baby will begin to secrete sex hormones, and there will be a brief development of breasts and testicles.
Generally, before the male baby is 6 months old, the female baby will appear from the age of 2~3 years after birth.
If the parents find that the baby is simply enlarged by breasts or testicles, and there is no armpit hair and pubic hair growth, there is no need to worry.
Of course, the most reassuring way is to go to the hospital and ask a professional doctor to judge!
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Rumors about precocious puberty!
➥ Can't eat out-of-season fruits?
Out-of-season fruits are indeed ripened with "hormones", the scientific name of these hormones is [plant growth regulator], which is completely different from human hormones, and will not cause precocious puberty in babies.
The growth mechanisms of animals and plants are completely different, and the chemical structure of plant hormones and animal hormones is also completely different.
小声叨叨
Plant hormones make people mature, so plant sperm can also make people pregnant?!
✘ Can't drink soy milk and honey?
Drinking soy milk often can lead to precocious puberty, and this rumor stems from the fact that soy milk contains estrogen-like soy isoflavones.
Sharp-eyed parents must have seen the word "class", which means that this hormone is not equal to the body's estrogen.
And the content of this in soy products is very limited, unless the baby is directly given soybean isoflavone purification.
As for honey, the amount of hormones in it is negligible, and even much less than other daily foods, so precocious puberty has nothing to do with it.
However, honey may contain botulinum toxin and should not be eaten by babies under 1 year old.
小声叨叨
The University of Science and Technology calls itself "similar to Wu Yanzu", is it really Wu Yanzu?
✘ Shouldn't children learn Latin?
Before the news that "a 9-year-old girl learning Latin dance leads to precocious puberty", it was a lot of noise.
Ha, 9 years old, precocious puberty, the development of a baby girl before the age of 8 is called precocious puberty, and people are developing normally!
小声叨叨
HKUST has grown wild beards these days, and I am also "precocious"?
✘ Fast food is "instant chicken" and can't be eaten!
Fried chicken thighs, large chicken cutlets, salted crispy chicken, salt-and-pepper chicken gizzards... Eating too much does easily lead to precocious puberty in babies, but it is related to the cooking method of frying.
The "instant chicken" that we understand to be hormone is actually a breed of chicken that has been bred and scientifically raised - a large white-feathered chicken.
At the same time, studies at home and abroad have shown that hormones have no effect on promoting the growth of chickens, and will also increase the risk of disease and mortality in chickens.
小声叨叨
Merchants are not stupid, and at some point you know that hormones are much more expensive than chickens!
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Preventive precocious puberty, what should babies pay attention to?
✔ Rejection of obesity, tonic and hormone drugs
"It's better for children to be fatter", "If you want to grow taller, you have to take supplements!"...
If Bao's parents hear something like this, Keda recommends that they be blocked immediately! What our baby needs is balanced nutrition, not high-calorie, high-fat fattening food.
In addition, don't give ginseng, astragalus, cordyceps sinensis and other supplements that can be used as medicine to the baby!
Hormone-containing drugs (such as birth control pills), mother's skin care products, cosmetics, etc., should be kept out of the reach of the baby as much as possible.
Otherwise, it will change the baby's endocrine environment and cause unbalanced development.
✔ Sleep in a dim environment
Excessive light stimulation can affect the normal functioning of the pineal gland, an endocrine organ in the brain, reduce melatonin secretion, and lead to precocious puberty in babies.
When you get up at night to feed and change diapers, you can turn on the night light and avoid direct exposure to the baby's eyes when using it.
✔ Keep away from plasticizers
Most of the baby's toys are plastic toys, and if the phthalates (plasticizers) exceed the standard, frequent contact may lead to weakened reproductive ability of male babies and precocious puberty of female babies.
Therefore, when choosing toys or Xi supplies for their babies, parents must choose products produced by regular manufacturers and stay away from "stalls" without toys.
✔ Rejection of love publications
Speaking of which, the University of Science and Technology remembered the authentic coconut water that has been very popular recently.
The cartoons that babies usually watch and the small games they play are sometimes inserted by unscrupulous merchants into some edge balls with similar love content.
Therefore, parents need to check that babies have more opportunities to be exposed to these love content beyond their psychological age, which will induce precocious puberty.
✔ Monitor your child's growth to avoid obesity
The reason why people talk about precocious puberty is not because precocious puberty affects a child's height and mental health.
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Therefore, HKUST recommends that children should be taken for regular health check-ups, and school-age children need to be at least once a year.
Monitor your child's growth and development, and seek medical attention if any problems are found.
Today's children are inherently at risk of overnutrition, and if they eat a lot of high-calorie foods for a long time, they will gain weight and become obese.
Obesity is an important factor in the development of precocious puberty in children.
Let your child eat a varied and balanced diet, and eat less high-sugar and high-fat foods, especially fast food and beverages.
Pay attention to exercise, the most important thing is to monitor weight gain, once there is a short-term rapid growth or overweight, etc., timely medical attention to find the cause and intervene early.
✔ Don't mess with makeup
Now open social platforms, many little girls teach others to make up in a similar way, but they don't know that some cosmetics may add hormones, and children use such cosmetics for a long time, which may lead to precocious puberty.
Children should try not to wear makeup, and occasionally need makeup performances, but also wash them in time and remove them thoroughly.
✔ Do not consume supplements in large quantities
Like ginseng and bird's nest, what I usually don't want to eat, all of them are left to my children.
Blindly giving supplements to children will not only lead to obesity;
It may also contain higher levels of sex hormone analogues, and long-term intake may have an excitatory effect on the child's gonads, which can easily cause precocious puberty.
Now there are many rumors of precocious puberty on the Internet, and there is no need to panic. You only need to pay attention to the child's growth status, check it regularly, and go to the hospital if there is any abnormality.
Arm yourself with scientific parenting methods, don't believe the rumors on the Internet, if you really don't understand, come to ask Keda!
Having said so many bits and pieces, which ones are rumors and which ones are really the scourge of precocious puberty, do parents remember it?
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It doesn't matter if you don't remember, please put away the following [Red and Black List of Children's Precocious Puberty], it's okay to take it out and take a look, it must be excellent~