Causes of goiter in children

Children's goiter may be caused by thyroid enlargement due to iodine deficiency, or it may be caused by congenital reasons. It is recommended that parents check the cause of their children's disease. If both of you have goiter, you should get a thorough check-up before getting pregnant, because only a healthy body can give us a healthy fetus. I hope couples who are preparing to get pregnant can pay attention to this.

Children are prone to goiter if they lack iodine in their lives. The main symptom is that the thyroid gland continues to proliferate and grow larger. The damage caused to patients by goiter in childhood is characterized by growth and development disorders, mental retardation, and diffuse myxedema throughout the body, as well as obvious symptoms and signs of hypothyroidism.

In addition, in addition to the patient's own physical reasons, it is also related to the patient's understanding of his own illness. When the patient is in the early stage of the disease, he cannot discover the disease in time and cannot accurately describe the symptoms of the disease. This creates certain obstacles for doctors in treatment, which in turn affects the best period of treatment for patients.

Familial congenital thyroid hormone synthase deficiency. Thyroid tissue has a strong ability to concentrate iodine. The human thyroid gland needs 60-80ug of iodine every day to produce physiologically active thyroid hormones. In the body, there is a mutually dependent and mutually restrictive feedback relationship between the thyroid hormone secreted by the thyroid gland and the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) secreted by the pituitary gland. When iodine is deficient, thyroid cells cannot synthesize enough thyroid hormone, the concentration of thyroid hormone in the blood decreases, the inhibitory effect of thyroid hormone on pituitary secretion (TSH) weakens, the secretion of pituitary TSH increases, and the TSH level in the blood increases, causing thyroid hypertrophy and hyperplasia.

Based on the article’s analysis of the causes of goiter in children, we should all know how to prevent the occurrence of goiter in children. For children with goiter, we should treat it in time in our lives. This will be of great help to the physical development of children. I hope you can know its treatment method.