What to do if an 8-year-old girl has precocious puberty

Nowadays, precocious puberty in children is indeed a big problem. There are many reasons leading to precocious puberty in children. On the one hand, it is related to diet, and on the other hand, it is related to the current information explosion. The Internet is well developed and smart phones are very popular, which can induce precocious puberty in children. If a child exhibits precocious puberty, he must go to the hospital for consultation in time, and improve the condition through psychological treatment and adjustment in life.

What to do if an 8-year-old girl has precocious puberty

1. Reasonable psychological counseling

Timely and reasonable psychological counseling for children with precocious puberty is an important part of the treatment of this disease. Most patients eventually develop normally except for being shorter than average people, so no special treatment is needed. However, the disease should be explained to the children and their families, and they should be informed of the relevant knowledge about the disease to relieve their concerns and eliminate their curiosity, fear and shyness. Once the children enter the normal age of puberty and developmental maturity, they will be exactly the same as their peers. During the sexual development of children, parents should be especially reminded to protect their children to avoid humiliation and physical and mental trauma. Provide menstrual hygiene education to women with precocious puberty to prevent urinary tract infections.

2. Patients with precocious puberty should increase physical activity

In particular, you should strengthen the exercise of the lower limbs, and ensure more than 30 minutes of exercise time every day. Sports such as jogging, climbing stairs, skipping rope, and jumping rubber bands can be selected. At the beginning, you can do some activities within your ability to avoid losing confidence due to excessive fatigue. Proceed step by step, gradually increase the amount and intensity of exercise and persist. Exercise of the lower limbs can stimulate the cell division and proliferation of the growth plates of the epiphyseal bones of the long bones, promoting height growth. In addition, exercise has a very positive significance in regulating body weight, changing body composition, increasing muscle mass and reducing fat content.

3. Patients with precocious puberty must ensure adequate sleep

You should get 8-9 hours of high-quality sleep every night to ensure that the pituitary gland can secrete sufficient growth hormone at night, which plays a very important role in promoting rapid growth in height.

4. Surgical treatment

If a child with precocious puberty has palpable enlarged ovaries, laparotomy is necessary. If it is an ovarian cyst, it should be removed. It is possible to preserve the ovary in benign tumors. For a unilateral, large, intact, mobile ovarian tumor, the best approach is to perform an ipsilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and contralateral ovarian biopsy. If there is no tumor on the contralateral ovary and uterus, they should be preserved. Ascites itself should not be used as an indication for malignancy or radical surgery, but routine laboratory tests and cytological examinations of ascites should be performed routinely. For granulosa cell tumors with intact and active capsules, the contralateral ovary can be retained after the tumor and adnexes on the affected side are removed, and the above-mentioned examinations must be performed. Malignant ovarian tumors are diagnosed by rapid frozen section and should be radically resected according to the stage.