Causes of goiter in children

Goiter in children is a relatively rare disease in life. It is mainly caused by thyroid hypertrophy due to iodine deficiency in the body, so we need to supplement iodine appropriately. We all know that iodine mainly comes from our table salt. Mothers can pay more attention to a balanced diet so that you can give your child milk with higher nutritional value and prevent the occurrence of goiter in children.

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.

From this article’s introduction to the causes of goiter in children, you should all know what factors cause goiter in children. We all know that goiter in children may be caused by problems with breast milk, or it may be congenital, so mothers are advised to take their children for a thorough check-up.