Rare condition presents 3 year old with puberty
An abundance of estrogen had this child starting puberty at age 3.
I hope the parents enlisted the help of a child psychologist. It’s hard to be different. Although, the article does suggest that drugs can prevent this from occuring.
It does bring up an interesting phenomena that children are starting puberty earlier and earlier.
“The thought that my three-year-old girl was getting her period seemed incomprehensible, but at the same time, it was becoming obvious to me that her mood swings and stomach cramps were to do with her time of the month.
“The endocrinologist may have dismissed my worries, but I could just tell that my daughter was entering puberty.”
And Debbie’s instincts proved to be correct. After numerous examinations and tests over the following 18 months, Hayley, at age six, was finally diagnosed with precocious puberty, a condition in which puberty begins at an unusually early age often due to abnormal production of oestrogen, thought to affect as many as one in six children under ten.
Although her periods didn’t start until she was eight, her monthly cycle of stomach cramps and bad moods had been a warning sign that her ovaries were maturing, and were a sign of the fluctuating hormones that define puberty.
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