What are the symptoms of a thyroid diorder in a child age 9?
My daughter’s tyroid seem enlarged and I was curious if she may have an underactive thyroid. She had gained weight in the last year.
And what causes thyroid problems
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Filed under: Symptoms Of Underactive Thyroid
o poor memory and concentration
o tiredness & fatigue
o depression
o irritability
o weight gain
o muscle weakness and cramps
o intolerance to cold weather
o deteriorating or slowing growth rate
o constipation
o dry, coarse, itchy skin
o brittle hair
o a croaky, hoarse voice
o slow reflexes
o slow heart rate
o delayed as well as precocious sexual development
o high cholesterol levels
o girls may suffer from increased menstrual flow
NB: children and adolescents with under activity of the thyroid may have almost no symptoms or signs other than weight gain or slowing growth.
thinning hair, and a hugeee increase in weight
Weight gain is a sign of hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid gland). So is fatigue and inability to concentrate. Is she doing poorly in school? This could also be a sign.
There are a couple of ways to help. The thyroid hormone is dependent on iodine for the body to make it. Most salts are iodized, so adding some extra salt to her diet could do the trick. If this doesn’t help, then she may have a more serious disorder that can be treated by taking thyroid hormone. You would have to receive diagnosis from a doctor and he or she would recomment the hormone treatment.
Same as in an adult. The "enlarged" you mention is probably goiter. Both my sister and I had them but had different thyroid malfunctions. She has Graves and had to have her thyroid killed. I had Hashimotos (which flucuates between over and under) and had mine removed for cancer.
Try gettiang some iodine in your daughter diet - shell fish, iodized salt.
The Complete Thyroid Book by M Sara Rosenthal. Good Book
Living Well with Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You… That You Need to Know - good books in this series.
depends whether the thyroid is underactive, or overactive. The enlarged gland would more suggest overactive. Weight gain on the other hand suggests possible underactive. But that gain in weight might not even be thyroid related at all. So your clear course of action is to go visit your doctor and have her evaluated - in the first instance by a simple blood test which will give a lot of information to the doctor.
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