Often, many parents dilemma arises: what to do with their growing up children of puberty, to what doctor to to write them down?
They have grown out of the age when their should lead to a consultation with a pediatrician, but actually can not go to an adult doctor. In this limbo situation are most parents of teenagers.
It is considered that this period lasts for girls from 10 to 16 years in boys - from 12 to 18 years. It was at that awkward age, most children get older: amplified its height, and weight.
Very often, the body's organs are lagging behind in development after the bones, skeletal muscle - popping up various manifestations of vegetative dystonia, dysfunction of internal organs, hormonal changes, skin rashes observed by type of acne. In girls, there is menstruation, breast growth, in boys - the development of secondary sexual characteristics of male type, wet dreams.
Lately, more often observed increased weight, menstrual irregularities by type of amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea girls.
In addition, parents are faced with becoming a teenager, a growing of personality, when soft and flexible child suddenly radically changes the attitude to relatives. It may manifest various psychosomatic pathologies that require psychological correction.
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Adolescent Medicine studies The problems of puberty and psychosocial maturation. Model of Adolescent Health. Biological, mental and social development of adolescents. The notion of physiological maturity. Facts on reproductive health and sexual behavior of teens. 
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