The girl Xiao Duo is only 8 years old, and her small breasts have begun to develop. The parents took her to see a doctor, only to find out that the cause was in the soup.
Xiao Duo lives in Xiaogan, and lived with her grandparents in her home village two years ago. The grandparents love their granddaughter very much. They often cook chicken soup and pork rib soup for their children, and sometimes add medicated food to supplement Xiaoduo’s body. The child gains 6 pounds in two or three months. On weekdays, her father often takes her to eat his favorite hamburgers and fried chicken.
At the beginning of 2021, Ms. Liu (pseudonym), Xiaoduo’s mother, was changing her child’s clothes and found that her daughter’s breast was slightly bulging, as if it had grown. At the recommendation of a friend, Ms. Liu brought Xiaoduo to the Growth and Development Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Center of the Department of Endocrinology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University. Dr. Huang Qi, the head of the center, found that the child did show signs of secondary sexual development, and the reason was related to diet.
Huang Qi analyzed that some families like to cook pork ribs soup for their children to “supplement calcium”. In fact, high-fat soups are not necessarily suitable for children. Bone broth and broth cannot supplement calcium, and a lot of fat is dissolved in the soup. If you cook it with animal offal, long-term drinking will lead to increased intake of fat and purine, and calcium will not be replenished, but will cause obesity or dyslipidemia in children, uric acid. increase. In addition, Xiao Duo loves to eat high-calorie foods such as fried chicken, which accelerates obesity, endocrine disorders and early development.
Fortunately, Xiao Duo was tested for bone age, six sex hormones, ultrasound and other tests, and it was found that her bone age and sex hormone levels were not ahead of her time, and she belonged to pseudo precocious puberty. As long as timely and correct intervention and regular follow-up , pay attention to monitoring, theoretically can be cured. Within a year, Xiao Duo stopped eating heavy oil and high fat, replaced the broth with vegetable soup, and exercised for 1 hour every day, and her physical condition gradually returned to normal. When I came to Zhongnan Hospital for re-examination on February 28 this year, the relevant indicators of the child had returned to normal, and the family’s hanging heart was finally relieved.
“To prevent precocious puberty, we must first prevent childhood obesity.” Huang Qi introduced that recently, there have been many small fat piercings in the height promotion clinic of Zhongnan Hospital, and the number of children with precocious puberty is increasing. Obesity is a risk of promoting precocious puberty. factor. There are two main hazards of precocious puberty, one is to shorten the time to grow taller, which affects the adult height; the other is to affect the child’s psychology, which can easily lead to feelings of inferiority and anxiety. Parents should be vigilant if they find that girls have developed secondary sexual characteristics before the age of 8 and boys are 9 years old, such as menarche and breast development in girls, beards, testicular development in boys, or accelerated growth in height. First, ask a specialist to judge. situation and find out the reasons. If you do not seek medical attention in time, pseudo precocious puberty may turn into true precocious puberty, which will have irreversible effects on growth and development. (Ding Yanfei)
(Wuhan Evening News)