Hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism may occur babies are born, this is usually due to thyroid is too small. However this disease may also be associated with thyroid disease, hypothalamic or pituitary (both of which would stimulate thyroid manufacture of thyroxine) results caused by dysfunction.
　
Older children and suffer from hypothyroidism may experience the following symptoms: reduced child grows significantly, with learning disorders, listless, loss of appetite and weight gain, swelling of the thyroid.
　
You should take your child to see a doctor, the doctor will ask for blood for thyroid hormone concentrations in the blood test. If confirmed child thyroid dysfunction, doctors may use the synthesis of thyroid hormones to their children. If the babies are born that is found in this, or after the occurrence of child can receive timely treatment, then the child\'s physical and mental development can still develop normally. However, children may have lifelong administration of thyroid hormone.