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The prevalence of overactive thyroid in children
I can only imagine how you feel when you have just left the doctor's office with, "Your child has Graves' Disease/Hyperthyroidism." No more explanations, at least not enough to understand what happened and where you went wrong. However, I understand how you feel - as a mother and as an ex-patient with Graves' disease. But probably still not. Things like this just happen, even with small children, teenagers, or young people just entering their lives. Unfortunately it started very often, even too often recently as I can see from the emails...
The prevalence of overactive thyroid in children
I can only imagine how you feel when you have just left the doctor's office with, "Your child has Graves' Disease/Hyperthyroidism." No more explanations, at least not enough to understand what happened and where you went wrong.
However, I understand how you feel - as a mother and as an ex-patient with Graves' disease.
But probably still not. Things like this just happen, even with small children, teenagers, or young people just entering their lives. Unfortunately, it started very often, even too often lately, as I can see from the emails I receive from worried and devastated parents. Graves' disease is no longer available for women between the ages of 45 and 55.
These are some suggestions you can do to help your child overcome hyperthyroidism or Graves' disease:
1. Make sure your child does not do too many activities at school or outside of school. If you or the child feel like they are “overloaded,” end it, better safe than sorry.
2. No excessive physical activities - like too many sports, too much time doing sports - if you can stop them for some time, that's even better. The reason is that the child can experience heart palpitations, and all active sports “charge” him even more. He/she will have time to take care of it in the future.
3. Relax for at least 11 hours a day, I don't mean sleep but relax.
4. Meditation or yoga or both - if you can teach this to your child, you will help him a lot.
5. Diet – Avoid cola or aspartame containing drinks. Read the labels. Fresh juice is better than any non-alcoholic drink.
6. Avoid foods high in iodine – nuts, seafood, fish.
7. Your child needs to eat more goitrogenic foods – these are foods, usually leafy greens, that naturally inhibit iodine overproduction. Broccoli, cauliflower, green leafy vegetables.
8. No multivitamins containing iodine. Check the labels.
9. Vitamin B complex – good for the nervous system, buy without a prescription in any store.
10. Selenium has recently been reported to have an excellent effect on hyperthyroidism. Ask your family doctor about the appropriate dosage.
11. Last but not least - I would not recommend RAI or thyroidectomy to any child, but the appropriate medications prescribed by your endocrinologist should be taken accordingly to avoid future thyroid complications like thyroid storms.
My experience shows that children recover faster than adults, and in just a few months your child will be feeling much, much better if you consider the suggestions above.
Inspired by Svetla Bankova