"We do know that blockers are associated with a decrease in suicide, and we also know that the blockers are associated with a reduction of depression as well," Salas-Humara said."I definitely see clinical practice patients who come in and they're extremely anxious and depressed about the possibly of facial hair or breast development, and then we start the blocker and they're relieved. It's a weight off them.
"We know from kids with precocious puberty that if you give puberty blockers for a year or so, they end up pretty much in the same place, from a bone health perspective," Safer said."That seems quite safe."While Safer said he might be"nervous" to leave a child on a puberty blocker for an"extended period of time," that is not the normal prescription process for blockers: Usually they are used for a year or two at a time.
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