Symptoms of hyperthyroidism in the baby

Update Date: 2022-02-28 Source: Network

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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. Let's talk about the symptoms of hyperthyroidism

Symptoms of hyperthyroidism in the baby

1. Hyperthyroidism because the mother has hyperthyroidism or Hashimoto's disease, there are antibodies in the body caused by hyperthyroidism, 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.

2. Children's hyperthyroidism accounts for about 5% of hyperthyroidism, most of them are school-age children, and neonatal hyperthyroidism is rare. 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.

3. Hyperthyroidism associated with myopathy in children is rare, and it has never been seen in children with periodic paralysis hyperthyroidism. Children with hyperthyroidism experience, goiter is more obvious, more obvious diffuse swelling, soft texture, thyroid nodules are rare. Children with hyperthyroidism complicated by diffuse toxic goiter eye disease is more, most of them are non-invasive eye disease, few serious eye disease. These are the early symptoms of hyperthyroidism in children

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.