14 yo “man breasts”

[Anonymous]

OP - this happened to our son who was concerned with nipple size and the breast buds that can hurt at that age. Take your son to a male pediatric endocrinologist. The doctor we took our son too assured him that all was normal, he was normal, nothing was out of line. It was certainly worth his fee and the time. DS is now 20 and perfectly normal

[Anonymous]

When my son was a newborn he had slight swelling around his nipples and the pediatrician off-handedly (w/o me asking about it) said, “This is hormonal. It’ll go away and then it’ll happen again around puberty for a little while.” He’s only 7 now but first round did go away pretty quickly. Lean kid. Maybe look back at newborn photos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These happen only in overweight boys. You should be more focused on healthy eating and less focused on his physical appearance. Wonder how he feels having you and Dr discuss his man boobs in front of him? Poor kid.l

Did not mention to doctor in front my my son. Spoke to doctor separately. Have never mentioned it to my son at all. By thanks for your concern.

To answer a different pp, no soy milk or excessive soy products.

How about processed food? Boxed Mac and cheese? TV dinners? Does he eat mostly fresh food or more packaged food? The plastic packaging mixes into your food and changes your hormone balance. We live in a crazy country,

https://med.nyu.edu/pediatrics/study-links-chemicals-widely-found-plastics-and-processed-food-elevated-blood-pressure-children-and-teens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These happen only in overweight boys. You should be more focused on healthy eating and less focused on his physical appearance. Wonder how he feels having you and Dr discuss his man boobs in front of him? Poor kid.l

Did not mention to doctor in front my my son. Spoke to doctor separately. Have never mentioned it to my son at all. By thanks for your concern.

To answer a different pp, no soy milk or excessive soy products.

How about processed food? Boxed Mac and cheese? TV dinners? Does he eat mostly fresh food or more packaged food? The plastic packaging mixes into your food and changes your hormone balance. We live in a crazy country,

https://med.nyu.edu/pediatrics/study-links-chemicals-widely-found-plastics-and-processed-food-elevated-blood-pressure-children-and-teens

Get the plastic out of your lives:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/well/chemicals-food-children-health.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These happen only in overweight boys. You should be more focused on healthy eating and less focused on his physical appearance. Wonder how he feels having you and Dr discuss his man boobs in front of him? Poor kid.l

Did not mention to doctor in front my my son. Spoke to doctor separately. Have never mentioned it to my son at all. By thanks for your concern.

To answer a different pp, no soy milk or excessive soy products.

How about processed food? Boxed Mac and cheese? TV dinners? Does he eat mostly fresh food or more packaged food? The plastic packaging mixes into your food and changes your hormone balance. We live in a crazy country,

https://med.nyu.edu/pediatrics/study-links-chemicals-widely-found-plastics-and-processed-food-elevated-blood-pressure-children-and-teens

Get the plastic out of your lives:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/well/chemicals-food-children-health.html

And sometimes normal things like this just happen. It’s puberty. There are plenty of hormones. I am a PP with a lean son with this - we are hippy-dippy chrunchy people. All eggs, meat, and milk come from an organic farm. Veggies from a CSA or my garden. Rather than pathologizing a normal part of puberty for some boys, let’s just reassure them that they are normal!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These happen only in overweight boys. You should be more focused on healthy eating and less focused on his physical appearance. Wonder how he feels having you and Dr discuss his man boobs in front of him? Poor kid.l

Don't discuss issues for which you obviously have absolutely no knowledge.

She is partially correct - body fat is a natural source of estrogen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These happen only in overweight boys. You should be more focused on healthy eating and less focused on his physical appearance. Wonder how he feels having you and Dr discuss his man boobs in front of him? Poor kid.l

Did not mention to doctor in front my my son. Spoke to doctor separately. Have never mentioned it to my son at all. By thanks for your concern.

To answer a different pp, no soy milk or excessive soy products.

How about processed food? Boxed Mac and cheese? TV dinners? Does he eat mostly fresh food or more packaged food? The plastic packaging mixes into your food and changes your hormone balance. We live in a crazy country,

https://med.nyu.edu/pediatrics/study-links-chemicals-widely-found-plastics-and-processed-food-elevated-blood-pressure-children-and-teens

Get the plastic out of your lives:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/well/chemicals-food-children-health.html

And sometimes normal things like this just happen. It’s puberty. There are plenty of hormones. I am a PP with a lean son with this - we are hippy-dippy chrunchy people. All eggs, meat, and milk come from an organic farm. Veggies from a CSA or my garden. Rather than pathologizing a normal part of puberty for some boys, let’s just reassure them that they are normal!

It’s a big problem in our country now as many people eat processed food. Just because you don’t doesn’t mean that other people should not be aware. I sure wish that I had known before I got pregnant. People should do some reading and make decisions for themselves.
Disrupting the endocrine system of a developing fetus is not reversible in some cases. Their young child getting cancer is something that many people wish they could have prevented.

[Anonymous]

Gynomastia also results from medications - is he on any?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These happen only in overweight boys. You should be more focused on healthy eating and less focused on his physical appearance. Wonder how he feels having you and Dr discuss his man boobs in front of him? Poor kid.l

Did not mention to doctor in front my my son. Spoke to doctor separately. Have never mentioned it to my son at all. By thanks for your concern.

To answer a different pp, no soy milk or excessive soy products.

How about processed food? Boxed Mac and cheese? TV dinners? Does he eat mostly fresh food or more packaged food? The plastic packaging mixes into your food and changes your hormone balance. We live in a crazy country,

https://med.nyu.edu/pediatrics/study-links-chemicals-widely-found-plastics-and-processed-food-elevated-blood-pressure-children-and-teens

Get the plastic out of your lives:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/well/chemicals-food-children-health.html

And sometimes normal things like this just happen. It’s puberty. There are plenty of hormones. I am a PP with a lean son with this - we are hippy-dippy chrunchy people. All eggs, meat, and milk come from an organic farm. Veggies from a CSA or my garden. Rather than pathologizing a normal part of puberty for some boys, let’s just reassure them that they are normal!

It’s a big problem in our country now as many people eat processed food. Just because you don’t doesn’t mean that other people should not be aware. I sure wish that I had known before I got pregnant. People should do some reading and make decisions for themselves.
Disrupting the endocrine system of a developing fetus is not reversible in some cases. Their young child getting cancer is something that many people wish they could have prevented.

The article details concerns from the American Academy of Pediatrics and is dated just a few weeks ago - consider paying attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Soy.

His estrogen levels are probably higher than a woman's.

Dear lord you people are so ignorant. I'm not sure I've seen a more stupid collection of women in one plalce than this site attracts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These happen only in overweight boys. You should be more focused on healthy eating and less focused on his physical appearance. Wonder how he feels having you and Dr discuss his man boobs in front of him? Poor kid.l

Don't discuss issues for which you obviously have absolutely no knowledge.

She is partially correct - body fat is a natural source of estrogen.

No she is not partially right. My 12yr od son also has this. He hasn't him yet hit puberty and is 5'5" tall and as thin as a rail at 103#s. He plays travel lacrosse, tennis, and flag football. He bikes to school each day and joins me on 5k races and always blow by me doing 8min/miles. He also has gynecomastia, as do about 70% of boys prior to puberty. This has absolutely nothing to do with fat. Zero.