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Access to treatment depends on the classification of precocious puberty as well as other guidelines implemented by the Endocrine Society. [205] To determine if you are experiencing precocious puberty and should receive treatment it is required your doctor take a medical history, physical exam, blood test, and x-rays. [206]
Individuals with precocious puberty, early adrenarche, and early normal puberty show less stress after treatment compared to individuals without preexisting developmental conditions. [ 46 ] Blockers are also used in the treatment of central precocious puberty resulting from conditions like hypothalamic hamartomas or congenital adrenal ...
Some doctors previously suggested the diagnosis age for early puberty should be earlier for Black girls than for white girls. Shankar countered that precocious puberty diagnosis and treatment ...
They have also been used since the 1980s to treat children for whom puberty starts at an unusually early age to allow puberty to begin later. The blockers have been proven to be highly safe and ...
Precocious puberty is when signs of sexual maturity occur earlier than age 8 in a girl and age 9 in a boy. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Every child goes through puberty, but ...
The goal of treatment is to prevent further development of secondary sexual characteristics, and particularly to slow the rate of growth and improve final adult height. [148] Due to the rare nature of peripheral precocious puberty, medications used in the treatment of the condition have only been studied limitedly in small numbers of patients.
In addition, since the medication suppresses estrogen levels as well, MPA can produce strong functional antiestrogenic effects similarly, and has been used to treat estrogen-dependent conditions such as precocious puberty in girls and endometriosis in women.
Another study, which was published in 2024, found that the average age that girls had their first periods decreased from 12.5 years old in 1950 to 1969 to 11.9 years old in 2000 to 2005.