Girls entering puberty by the age of six - but are drugs the answer?

Some girls now enter puberty as early as six - with toxic chemicals widely held to blame. But are new drugs to hold back the years really the right answer?:

Puberty is an unsettling stage in anyone's life, but if it happens at an age when you are still playing with dolls, it can be very worrying indeed.

That is exactly what happened to Lucia Reed. She was just seven when her periods started, an event which distanced Lucia from her classmates and led to unexplained medical examinations which terrified her.

'I felt completely alone and alienated, with this horrible secret,' she recalls 12 years later. 'I knew I was different from everyone else, but I didn't know what was happening.

'My mum had to tell the school, and they tried to make sure no one found out what was going on. Because of my periods, I was allowed to use a different loo from the other girls.
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