Hypothyroidism is an endocrine disorder, congenital, due to the lack or small size of the thyroid. Since thyroid hormones are necessary and essential that the situation is identified instantly in order to act with hormone replacement treatment, which allows nearly all cases, correct. Since thyroid hormones are necessary for common growth and development of the organism, infants with hypothyroidism should lead to a serious deficit in body and body development of the nervous system with severe mental retardation.

For this purpose, present in all babies, even in fact healthy, perform viewing of hypothyroidism, namely the determination of thyroid hormones and TSH during the first days of life, to be capable to instantly recognise cases of hypothyroidism and not lose precious time. The diagnosis is then confirmed by other hormonal and radiological examinations, as the learn of bone age and thyroid scan, which can detect the presence or absence of the thyroid, its shape, its size and its location frequently abnormal.

The symptoms that arise are a discordant body development: large head, long body, short limbs and stocky. Small stature (dwarfism), coarse qualities, chunky lips and skin, long nose, lethargy, low body temperature, poor growth, delayed mental development, delayed dentition.

Aplasia or’hypoplasia thyroid might be correct, of course, merely with a hormone replacement treatment, which should be sustained for life, with progressively higher doses and in proportion to the weight of the child. The drugs presently accessible on the market permit you to implement a very specific and therapy tailored to the wants of the child, but at least the first six months of treatment, necessitates frequent and accurate monitoring of hormone levels that reach the blood, is an attention inadequate to protect hormones, is an overdose. This fact might cause the onset of symptoms as tremors, agitation, weight loss, increased heart rate, fever etc.