Topic of the Week
Graves Disease and Hyperthyroidism in Children
Topic of the Week!
Graves Disease and Hyperthyroidism in Children
I cannot express how important it is that you not allow them to remove or zap your child’s thyroid!! I am very passionate and adamant about this and my opinion is based on science and experience.
Here’s why I feel so strongly about it:
Graves Disease’s effect on the thyroid is nothing more than a communication problem caused by our antibodies. It can be put into remission with proper management AND the thyroid completely heals. It returns to normal size, stops overproducing hormone and nodules disappear. This is proven science your doc either doesn’t know or chooses to ignore because it’s not easiest treatment option.
Your child has an entire lifetime ahead of them and they need their precious thyroids for the best quality of life. Fake or pig hormone (which is only 1 or 2 of several vital thyroid hormones) are not as good as all their own natural hormones. They need their thyroid to have their best life!
The thyroid is only 1 victim of Graves antibodies. Removing or nuking it will not help with Graves’ other victims like eye bulging, systemic muscle attacks, tachycardia, issues with temperature regulation, skin issues, pretibial myxedema and Graves’ Inappropriate Histamine Response. What helps these other symptoms is reducing antibodies. Not removing the thyroid.
Children are more difficult to manage than adults BUT IT CAN BE DONE. Do not expect your child’s doctor to know how to do this. They’re not taught anything other than to remove or zap the thyroid in med school.
The reason children are more difficult to manage is basically because they’re children. The stress of school and social challenges, hormones and body changes, and the general anxiety associated with Graves makes them more difficult to manage and regulate but it can be done with regular testing, proper dosing and proper diet.
Please consider letting me manage your child’s Graves/Hyperthyroidism to SAVE their precious thyroid. Our doctors don’t know how to do it but I do!! I have made it my mission to learn and I’ve managed dozens of children successfully over the last 10 years. My passion is genuine because I myself was an undiagnosed Graves kid! Now, I’m a grandmother with my thyroid intact and my Graves Disease in full antibody remission and enjoying good quality of life. Your child can too!!
Just private message me to get started.
Please take a moment to thank the courageous Mom’s who trusted me to manage their children and learn the special nuances needed to manage them successfully. Without their trust I wouldn’t know all that I know now. And their children wouldn’t have a thyroid and living the good lives they do.
I my ! I your child’s even more!!!
