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Endocrinology

Cannabidiol ‘temporally linked’ to puberty in two-year-old

The child was being treated for epilepsy by his mother using cannabis oil bought online
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18 May 2021
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UK Doctors are reporting a case of early puberty in a two-year-old boy who was given cannabidiol (CBD) oil his mother purchased online to help control epileptic seizures.

Studies on the impact of CBD on the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis, implicated in precocious puberty, have been conflicting, write the doctors in BMJ Case Reports.

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