What is puberty ?
Puberty (say: pyoo-ber-tee) is the name for the time when your body begins to develop and change as you move from kid to adult. We're talking about stuff like girls developing breasts and boys starting to look more like men. During puberty, your body will grow faster than at any other time in your life, except for when you were a baby.
Heard of the shot that delays puberty? Well, many worried parents in the city have, and are now opting for these growth hormone injections for their child to either delay the early onset of menstrual cycle or stop monthly periods for a couple of years. Not exactly a fad, the medication appears to be a rather expensive mechanism to combat a disturbing urban health reality — of girls as young as 8 and 9 attaining puberty.
Considered to be a disorder called 'precocious puberty', city doctors have not only seen a rise in this condition in the last couple of years but in the number of takers of this medical treatment which costs Rs 3,500-4,000 a month. "We get 5-6 such cases of early puberty a month. These girls mostly aged between 5-8 years are managed by GnRH analogues, basically an injection, to control the hormone levels and postpone the menstrual cycle till they grow up to 10 years or more. This treatment is used after ruling out other organic causes for this disorder (early puberty)," says Prof Rakesh Kumar Sahay, Osmania Medical College. Sahay, who is also secretary of Endocrine Society of India, further stated that there are no significant side effects of this treatment.
Read more: City girls go for shot to delay early puberty.
Puberty (say: pyoo-ber-tee) is the name for the time when your body begins to develop and change as you move from kid to adult. We're talking about stuff like girls developing breasts and boys starting to look more like men. During puberty, your body will grow faster than at any other time in your life, except for when you were a baby.
Heard of the shot that delays puberty? Well, many worried parents in the city have, and are now opting for these growth hormone injections for their child to either delay the early onset of menstrual cycle or stop monthly periods for a couple of years. Not exactly a fad, the medication appears to be a rather expensive mechanism to combat a disturbing urban health reality — of girls as young as 8 and 9 attaining puberty.
Considered to be a disorder called 'precocious puberty', city doctors have not only seen a rise in this condition in the last couple of years but in the number of takers of this medical treatment which costs Rs 3,500-4,000 a month. "We get 5-6 such cases of early puberty a month. These girls mostly aged between 5-8 years are managed by GnRH analogues, basically an injection, to control the hormone levels and postpone the menstrual cycle till they grow up to 10 years or more. This treatment is used after ruling out other organic causes for this disorder (early puberty)," says Prof Rakesh Kumar Sahay, Osmania Medical College. Sahay, who is also secretary of Endocrine Society of India, further stated that there are no significant side effects of this treatment.
Read more: City girls go for shot to delay early puberty.
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