The baby can eat is the wish of many parents, but the abnormal amount of food is large, love to cry, be careful that the child is suffering from hyperthyroidism.
Xiao Xuanxuan in Changsha is a premature baby born at 36 weeks, with a birth weight of only 4 pounds, which is two-thirds of other full-term babies, but the amount of food is much larger than other babies.
Every hour or two, I had to eat milk, and the amount of milk was amazing, and I had to eat 50 ml of milk at each meal for only two or three days of birth.
At first, the family felt that it was a good thing that the child had a good appetite, but slowly Xuanxuan's mother found that something was wrong, Xuanxuan was not simply a large amount of food, but also particularly fond of crying and noisy, it was difficult to be quiet every day, as well as fast breathing, frequent shaking of hands and feet, sweating on the forehead and other phenomena.
Went to the neonatology department of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital for examination, only to find that Xuan xuan suffered from hyperthyroidism.
【Xuan Xuan receives treatment in neonatology】
After inquiry, the doctor learned that Xuanxuan's mother had suffered from hyperthyroidism a few years ago and had normal thyroid function after treatment.
Unexpectedly, after pregnancy, the antibodies in the mother's body affected the baby, so that the baby also suffered from hyperthyroidism.
Fortunately, the timely medical treatment avoided the formation of serious hyperthyroid disease in the baby, and after treatment, he was successfully discharged from the hospital, and on April 27, Xuan Xuan came to the hospital for a review, and the thyroid function has been well controlled.
Zhang Aimin, director of the Department of Neonatology, introduced that the incidence of neonatal hyperthyroidism is about 1/25,000 to 1/50,000, most of which is because the mother suffers from hyperthyroidism (graves disease of the thyroid gland), and the stimulating thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibodies produced in the body are transmitted to the baby through the placenta, resulting in increased thyroxine secretion in the baby, resulting in thyrotoxicosis.
Neonatal hyperthyroidism mainly includes premature birth, low birth weight, microcephaly, crying, difficult to soothe, hyperactivity, sweating, eating more but not gaining weight, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, vomiting, diarrhea, and high blood pressure.
Neonatals with diagnosed hyperthyroidism can take oral antithyroid drugs, mostly after 3 months.
Zhang Aimin reminded that hyperthyroid mothers can give birth to healthy babies, provided that they need to be pregnant after hyperthyroidism is cured or controlled under the close supervision of a doctor, and regularly monitor thyroid function, TRAb (anti-thyrotropin receptor antibody) and do a good job of fetal assessment, and complete the pregnancy under the multidisciplinary guidance of obstetrics and endocrinology and neonatologists.
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Hunan Medical Chat Special Author: Hunan Provincial People's Hospital Department of Neonatology Tan Jun Xu Jun
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