Can off-season vegetables, soya-bean milk and quick-growing chickens lead to precocious puberty? Please stop the media from scaring people for fun!

In recent years, a casual search on the Internet can lead to various reports of precocious puberty in infants. Media often question that this is caused by food. Off-season vegetables, bean products, bovine colostrum, milk powder, instant chickens… Well, there are quite a lot of food shot. Let’s talk about some issues that parents are most concerned about: Is precocious puberty caused by what? Will these foods lead to precocious puberty? How should precocious puberty be prevented? Who is to blame for precocious puberty? Precocious puberty is divided into true precocious puberty and pseudo precocious puberty. True precocious puberty may be caused by intracranial infection, trauma or tumor, or it may be the so-called [idiopathic central precocious puberty] for which Read More …

Often drink honey water, can precocious puberty?

Honey, royal jelly, bee pollen and other products have always been popular [good things]. Many people think that they have various health effects and even prolong life. On the other hand, there are also many rumors claiming that these bee products [contain sex hormones] may also affect development and cause precocious puberty if eaten by children. According to previous reports, a mother gave her daughter honey water every day because she heard that drinking more honey water could improve her physique. As a result, her 6-year-old daughter’s bilateral breasts developed ahead of schedule. The doctor diagnosed her as pseudo-precocious puberty and said it was caused by drinking honey water. This makes many people more worried about honey. Is there really Read More …

If parents sleep with them, will they sleep out of precocious puberty?

In recent years, reports of precocious puberty in children have emerged one after another. Fast-growing chickens, ripening fruits and vegetables, soya-bean milk and bean products and other foods are probably the most commonly heard. (These foods do not cause precocious puberty, please see here to refute the rumor.) There is even a more [sensational] statement-children sleeping with their parents for a long time can easily lead to precocious puberty. Although children should gradually learn to sleep alone as they grow older, Ding Ma really can’t agree with such reasons as [causing precocious puberty] to frighten people. Therefore, Ding Ma specially invited doctors from the Endocrinology Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital to talk about the matter. Who is to Read More …