What will happen to a child born with hypothyroidism?

Many female friends become very careful after they know they are pregnant, and they pay much more attention to every aspect of their food, clothing, housing and transportation than before. Getting sick is what pregnant women worry about most, because many medicines have an impact on the fetus. When pregnant women are sick, they generally refuse treatment for the sake of the fetus. Some women want to know what will happen if they give birth to a child with hypothyroidism. Is it possible to pass the disease on to the fetus?

If a pregnant woman has hypothyroidism but does not receive good treatment during pregnancy, the child will be affected to a certain extent after birth, such as mental retardation, short stature, cleft lip and other defects. About half of them may develop thyroid disease or congenital hypothyroidism when they grow up. If the pregnant woman's condition is well controlled during pregnancy, of course there will be no impact on the child.

Symptoms of congenital hypothyroidism in children may include: prolonged neonatal jaundice, long sleep time, difficulty feeding, decreased muscle tone, thickening and swelling of the tongue, hoarse crying, etc. Therefore, if you have thyroid disease during pregnancy and your baby shows some of the above conditions after delivery, you should consult a doctor in time to get the best and most timely diagnosis and treatment.

First of all, it is important to understand that whether a child develops hypothyroidism after birth has nothing to do with whether the mother was sick during pregnancy, how much medication she took, or whether her thyroid function was completely controlled during pregnancy. Because any pregnant woman who carries the thyroid disease gene may give birth to a baby with congenital hypothyroidism even if she does not suffer from hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism. Moreover, even if thyroid disease is inherited, it is the gene for hypothyroidism that is inherited. It is impossible to inherit hypothyroidism directly. In other words, even if you inherit the gene for hypothyroidism, you do not necessarily get hypothyroidism.

Thyroid disease has a certain genetic tendency, but there is no rule as to whether or not the disease will occur after inheriting the disease gene! After a baby inherits the thyroid disease gene, will he get sick? When will he get sick? Will he get hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism? Will he get thyroiditis or thyroid nodules? Or even thyroid cancer! It is all random and depends entirely on luck! Maybe he will never get sick in his lifetime, or maybe he has been sick before he is born. Babies with hypothyroidism are people with bad luck. Therefore, pregnant mothers should relax their mentality and believe that the baby's luck will not be so bad. Even if the baby has hypothyroidism, it can be actively treated and cured!