Precocious puberty

Precocious puberty refers to premature development of puberty. Generally speaking, precocious puberty in boys who develop before puberty before 9 years old and girls before 8 years old can be divided into true (also known as central completeness) and precocious puberty (also known as peripheral incompleteness). class. True precocious puberty refers to the improper premature activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis, leading to the early appearance of pubertal development. Its performance is the same as that of normal development. The second sexual characteristics are consistent with the genetic sex, can produce sperm or eggs, and have fertility. ability. Pseudoprecocious puberty is an increase in sex hormones caused by factors other than the gonad center. Only secondary sexual characteristics develop, but the germ cells do not mature simultaneously and have no fertility. Clinically, precocious puberty is more common than pseudoprecocious puberty.

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