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A child will show early signs of puberty, such as voice that began to change, grow hair on certain areas and breasts enlarged to a girl. For a girl, the signs that usually appear at age 10 years and above and in boys, usually slower, ie at the age of 11 years and over.
But this time, the trend of children to reach puberty occurs at an increasingly early age, some girls have experienced puberty at the age of the newly reached 7 years. And this sometimes can make them become confused and difficult to deal with these new circumstances.
Why would a child likely to experience at the age of puberty earlier? The experts at the Swedish Institute of Karonlinska try to seek answers from many different angles. Previously, there were several theories proposed by experts to answer these questions. Currently 12 European expert team was researching another three years and is expected to be the root of the problem and finding the most likely cause of this problem.
Early Puberty in age, occur in some countries. In the United States alone, many children who have reached puberty at the time just reaching the age of 7 years. One possible contributing factor is the condition in overweight children today. Because of animal research to be seen, over-fed animals will produce greater sexual hormones that trigger puberty. In addition, babies fed on excess food and grow quickly to reach puberty earlier compared with babies of his age. And children who are malnourished, when transferred to other families to improve their nutritional deficiencies, will experience puberty earlier than his brother who still lived at home.
Possible other cause is more and more spectacle on television that alter the hormonal balance in the body that encourage early puberty. Other factors such as the pesticide DDT was also risky to accelerate puberty. Immigrants from India and Colombia, 80 times possibly experiencing early puberty are more likely due to high contact with DDT and pollution. In the blood they found high levels of DDT. Although this could not be ascertained as the cause of early puberty.
Psychologists also believe that girls who have a close relationship with the father will experience slower pubertal girls compared with children who have a distant relationship with his father.
The latest theory is a theory factor gene, believed to play an important role of puberty. Because a protein called GPR 45, a protein believed to be the spark of puberty.
Source : info-sehat.com
