Early symptoms of neonatal hyperthyroidism?

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Now hyperthyroidism disease has threatened children, many children get hyperthyroidism is due to parents genetic reasons. Children with hyperthyroidism, as the parents of children should early find hyperthyroidism symptoms, give active treatment to avoid hyperthyroidism to bring greater harm to children. Early symptoms of neonatal hyperthyroidism? Let's talk about it.

Early symptoms of neonatal hyperthyroidism?

According to the clinical data, hyperthyroidism has a certain degree of genetic nature, hyperthyroidism can occur at any age from the newborn to the elderly. If their parents are hyperthyroidism patients, the risk of their offspring and hyperthyroidism is much higher than that of normal people. Of course, there are many reasons for hyperthyroidism, such as serious iodine deficiency in some local children.

Hyperthyroidism due to the mother suffering from hyperthyroidism or Hashimoto's disease, hyperthyroidism caused by antibodies in the body, in pregnancy, through the placenta into the fetus, neonatal hyperthyroidism is born, some infants may delay the onset until a few weeks after birth or the onset of a long incubation period, there is a certain incubation period. Compared with adults, the symptoms of hyperthyroidism in children are relatively mild.

Hyperthyroidism in children accounts for about 5% of hyperthyroidism, especially in school-age children. Children with hyperthyroidism have a family history of thyroid diseases (goiter, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, chronic thyroiditis). Girls are more than boys. The ratio of girls to boys is about 6:1-8:1. Because thyroid hormone can promote growth, the early symptoms of children with hyperthyroidism children grow faster than children of the same age, more appetite, more obvious weight loss. Children's ability of cardiac compensation is stronger. Although the heart rate is fast, more than 100 times per minute, most of the children have no cardiovascular symptoms such as palpitation and shortness of breath. Heart failure caused by atrial fibrillation is rare in children with hyperthyroidism.

matters needing attention

Because children's hyperthyroidism occurs in children's long body period, thyroid surgery is not easy to master, and worry that isotope therapy for children's hyperthyroidism may cause permanent hypothyroidism, and affect the growth and development of children, so children's hyperthyroidism more use antithyroid drugs.