Precocious puberty is the medical term representing a condition where the girls and boys develop puberty at an early age. The patient may suffer from pubertic growth in a normal way but much before the normal age. This may affect the mental status of the patient. In true sense this is not a diseased condition but just the earlier onset of a normal growth of the body than the normal age.

Precocious puberty may be occasionally caused due to tumor or certain kinds of injury of the brain. The onset of this disease can affect the overall growth of the patient and can lead to mental trauma. In girls this disease may onset earlier than 8 years of age and in boys it may onset earlier than 9 years of age. The disease is mostly divided into several types, central and peripheral. The central precocious puberty is caused by the damage to the inhibitory system of the patient’s brain due to certain kinds of irradiation, trauma, etc. it may also be caused due to langerhans cell histiocytosis. Peripheral precocious puberty is mostly caused by the endogenous sources such as adrenal tumors, McCune-Albright syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, etc. it may also be caused due to certain kinds of exogenous and environmental factors.

Obesity is found to be one of the most important causes of precocious puberty in girls. Hence, fatty diet should be avoided in girls to prevent them from getting fat.