Case 1 Suspected to take birth control pills like candy
Because of the sudden enlargement of the breast and a small amount of reddish-brown discharge in the vagina, Nicole (a pseudonym), 3 years and 1 month, was taken to the children's hospital for examination by her mother.
According to the lady, when she helped Nicole take a bath last Wednesday night, she suddenly found that her breasts were bulging more than before, and there was a hard thing in it, and there was a hint of reddish-brown in her vagina the next morning. Secretions.
That morning, Ms. Wu took her daughter to the Department of Growth and Development of Children's Hospital. After the inspection doctor gave Nicole an examination, he found that Nicole's other physical examinations were normal except for the simple breast enlargement.
Ms. said that Nicole usually does not eat foods that contain more estrogen. Therefore, I have also received such cases before. The doctor initially diagnosed that Nicole suffered from "peripheral sexual precocious puberty" (also known as pseudo sexual precocious puberty) after taking the contraceptive by mistake.
Ms. later said that after she went home to check, she did find that one box of contraceptive pills was missing, but she was not sure if Nicole had taken birth control pills.
Case 2 Mother taking contraceptive pills during breastfeeding 1 year old male precocious puberty
Half a month ago, the doctor also received a male baby who was only 1 year old. The male baby inexplicably showed symptoms of enlarged testicles without taking external medicines and consuming hormone-containing foods.
According to the doctor's introduction, except for the simple testicular enlargement, other physical examinations of the boy were normal, and the initial diagnosis was still peripheral precocious puberty.
The doctor immediately thought whether he had also taken birth control pills by mistake, so he asked the boy's mother. The child's mother told the doctor that the child was still breastfeeding and had no exposure to other foods.
The doctor continued to follow up and finally learned that the boy ’s mother had taken a long-acting contraceptive pill one month before. The doctor basically determined that the child took the birth control pills indirectly after eating the mother's breast milk, and the body's estrogen increased significantly.
The doctor said: a contraceptive is enough to make the hormones of the child change greatly
According to doctors, after preliminary statistics in recent years, its hospital has received nearly 60 cases of patients with peripheral precocious puberty due to misuse of contraceptives, all of them are children under 4 years of age, eat 1 less, Eat more than 10 tablets.
The doctor said that whether it is a short-acting or long-acting contraceptive, the amount of estrogen concentrated in a pill is large, the child's body is small, and the internal metabolism of the body is not fully developed, even if there is only one contraceptive The amount can cause a significant change in hormone levels in the body within a short period of time, causing estrogen to increase significantly in a short time.
However, the doctor also said that this kind of precocious puberty symptom after taking the contraceptive pill is pseudo-precocious precocious puberty, generally only need to pay attention to observation without special treatment. The symptoms of precocious puberty disappeared in the children who had been treated for a period of time after they had not been exposed to contraceptives again. Under normal circumstances, if you take a small amount or 1 capsule by mistake, the symptoms will disappear after two or three months; if you take more by mistake, the symptoms will improve after half a year. Once the symptoms of precocious puberty have not disappeared within the relevant time, it may be caused by other problems.
