What to do if your child grows a beard

For little boys, if they grow a beard, you should pay attention to it, especially for boys under ten years old. If they grow a beard, it means that the child has precocious puberty, which is an abnormal physiological manifestation and has an important relationship with normal diet. Precocious puberty in children has a relatively large impact on their physical health. At this time, certain methods should be adopted for treatment and you should go to the hospital for relevant examinations in time.

What to do if children have precocious puberty

Currently, in terms of drug treatment, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is the most effective drug for the treatment of true precocious puberty. This drug can downregulate the GnRh receptors on the surface of gonadotropin-releasing hormone cells, thereby reducing the secretion of sex hormones and biological activity. This is the most effective drug, but it is often used on more serious children, those who have reached the fourth or fifth stage of puberty, or those who have just started menstruation.

Another is growth hormone. For children treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone, bone fusion is delayed, which undoubtedly buys precious time for the children's height growth and is beneficial to improving their final height. However, the use of these drugs will also slow down the peak rate of height growth. Your height growth time can be extended, but the rate may be slowed down. In this case, sometimes growth hormone treatment is used to extend the time without reducing the rate, thus unleashing the full genetic potential of height.

Another option is to add calcium supplements and vitamin D to the treatment for children with low bone density. In addition, for some secondary precocious puberty and false precocious puberty, such as those caused by tumors or primary diseases, the incidence of true precocious puberty caused by central nervous system tumors in boys is much higher than that in girls, so we must pay attention to boys.

From the dialectical theory of traditional Chinese medicine, they believe that the pathogenic hormones of precocious puberty are kidney yin deficiency and excessive fire. The so-called kidney in traditional Chinese medicine does not mainly refer to the kidney in modern medicine, but refers to the body's neuroendocrine regulatory system, including the hypothalamic pituitary-gonadal axis. It means that these regulatory axes are activated prematurely and function hyperactivity. Children with this disease all have symptoms of yin deficiency and excessive fire to varying degrees, and they can be given traditional Chinese medicine to nourish kidney yin and relieve fire. Based on the child's clinical manifestations, analyze through the child's symptoms, tongue coating, and pulse, which is what Chinese medicine calls syndrome differentiation and treatment.

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment is generally divided into three types:

First, the syndrome of kidney yin deficiency is mainly manifested by the development of secondary sexual characteristics. In addition, the child may have some hot flashes, night sweats, hot palms and soles, dizziness, irritability, red tongue with little coating, and a thin and rapid pulse. The treatment mainly uses the method of nourishing yin and reducing fire, and Zhibai Dihuang Pills can be used with modifications.

Second, the syndrome of liver depression transforming into fire, in addition to the development of secondary sexual characteristics, there are also chest tightness, easy sighing, belching, which is closely related to the child's psychological factors, dry stool, yellow urine, and stringy and rapid pulse. This treatment method mainly uses the method of soothing the liver and clearing heat, and Danzhi Xiaoyao Powder can be used with modifications.

Third, the syndrome of phlegm-heat accumulation. In addition to the development of secondary sexual characteristics, the patient is overweight, lazy, taciturn, and has a poor appetite. Nausea and vomiting, thick and greasy tongue coating, and a slippery and rapid pulse may also occur. The treatment mainly uses the methods of resolving phlegm and heat, and strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness. Erchen Decoction combined with Ermiao Powder can be used with modifications.