Results 12 year old

[lisan1]

FT3 5.5 (ref 3.9-7.7)

FT4 14 (ref 13-21).

TSH 4.5 (ref 0.5-4.3)

What do you think? T3 is good right?

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Lisan1

Does the child have a diagnosis of a thyroid condition?

Are they on any thyroid meds?

How do they feel?

TSH is over range, FT4 bottom of range = hypothyroidism.

[lisan1 in reply to SeasideSusie]

No diagnosis or meds.

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to lisan1]

I'm a bit puzzled why your question is saying the "T3 is good right?" when the other two results clearly indicate hypothyroidism. As T3 is the active hormone which every cell in our bodies need, our bodies will continue to push out as much T3 as possible for as long as possible, so it's the last thing to show a poor result.

Is this your child? If so, as you are hypothyroid yourself, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that your children may be similarly affected.

If children's results are treated the same as adults, the GP will want to repeat the test. If next results are very similar then unless thyroid antibodies are over range there may be no diagnosis until TSH reaches 10. But I am not familiar with how they treat children.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Has she/he had vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 tested

Both TPO and TG antibodies tested too?

[lisan1 in reply to SlowDragon]

No.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to lisan1]

That’s next step

See GP and request thyroid antibodies tested and all four vitamins

What’s the child’s diet like?

Vegetarian or vegan, picky?

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 plus both TPO and TG thyroid antibodies tested.

Also EXTREMELY important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Low vitamin levels are extremely common, especially with autoimmune thyroid disease (Hashimoto’s or Ord’s thyroiditis)

Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning

This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip)

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