Soy.

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

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.

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.

Agree that bench pressing and similar chest-focused weight lifting helps for boys who have nipples (that stick out) but minimal chest muscles behind

How does a 14 year old boy not like exercise? He needs to do some kind of sport and get more exercise than walking in the neighborhood.

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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

Actually, no. My very thin boy has them. They are not fat tissue but breast tissue triggered to grow by the surge of puberty hormones. In most boys they are temporary. My son is so thin that he can see and notice the fluctuations in the tissue, because there is no fat layer and it does seem to be receding.

Ok, so I stand corrected! I didn't know about it, sorry for being ignorant.

Yea, I was going to chime in as well. Not true at all. Its can be a puberty thing (happened with my thin athletic son and went away after puberty) or something that requires elective surgery.

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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

Actually, no. My very thin boy has them. They are not fat tissue but breast tissue triggered to grow by the surge of puberty hormones. In most boys they are temporary. My son is so thin that he can see and notice the fluctuations in the tissue, because there is no fat layer and it does seem to be receding.

Ok, so I stand corrected! I didn't know about it, sorry for being ignorant.

My brother had those. He was not overweight at all but developed little puffy triangle breasts during puberty. I remember he was extremely self conscious and wouldn’t swim without a shirt after that. Then it morphed into him binding them because you could still see them through the swim shirt. He even tried getting super ripped arms to pass them off as pecs but they were just too triangle shaped.

He got the surgery when he was 21 or 22. He wanted it at 18 but all of the Drs he saw said he needed to wait until his 20s when his body was 100% done developing.

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

Actually, no. My very thin boy has them. They are not fat tissue but breast tissue triggered to grow by the surge of puberty hormones. In most boys they are temporary. My son is so thin that he can see and notice the fluctuations in the tissue, because there is no fat layer and it does seem to be receding.

Anonymous wrote:My son has had just a little something ‘off’ even when he was very thin. He has gained weight since. I expect that later on he’ll need to have he surgery. He is embarrassed about it, but it’s just the way he was born.

Surgery? For what?

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

Omg you people are crazy.

Pre-pubescent bodies are crazy.

My son was under weight played 2 sports and had love handles right before/during puberty.

Just keep eating healthy and exercise of some sort.

Also when a doctor says it's normal and you H says his brother had the same issue and it went away don't come to crazyville DCUM and ask.

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Anonymous wrote:It can be caused by soy in his diet because it has estrogens. Cut out soy milk, Chinese food, ramen, granola bars and cereals with soy.

any and all?

I'm not sure I buy the link between soy and man boobs. Chinese men don't have man boobs.

Anonymous wrote:Is he drinking soy milk? That will cause this to happen.

DP.. my DH has this. He's in his 50's, and never drank soy milk or ate soy based food. He grew up in Europe. I think it can be genetics, too. His dad was like this, and our son is showing signs, too, but part of it is definitely weight gain.

OP checking back in. Thank you all for the feedback. Sounds like this might turn into a longer-term issue. I don’t think he is self-conscious about it yet. Of course, I could just be oblivious.

Forgot to mention that my husband says his brother had them at around this age and they went away when he grew.