My daughter's blood tests, could someone take a look please .

[JUUJOO]

My daughter is 12. She doesn't have any diagnosed thyroid problems but our GP has run various blood tests due to regular nosebleeds and occasional migraines with aura. I persuaded them to check her thyroid and iron panel aswell. I've pushed for this with our family history of autoimmune thyroid problems . She did have an obvious thyroid swelling last year but scan showed nothing abnormal and blood tests were ok then. All her results are all in range so im not expecting to hear much from the gp, so thought I'd ask here for interpretation of the thyroid and iron results.

Tsh 1.85 - (0.51-4.3)

Ft4 14.3 - (10.5-22.6)

Thy Peroxidase AbC - <15 ( <15)

Ferritin 16 - (7-140)

Serum Iron 17 - (14-30)

Serum Transferrin 3.38 - (2-3.6)

Transferrin saturation 20% - (15-50%)

Total Iron binding 85 - (50-85)

I can see her ferritin is woeful like mine has been previously, but her total iron is high range. So I'm wondering if we need to take action on the iron?

Any thoughts? Many thanks !

[SlowDragon Administrator]

she needs vitamin D, folate and B12 tested

Plus, ideally TG thyroid antibodies

Look at increasing her iron rich foods in diet

[JUUJOO in reply to SlowDragon]

Serum D3 - 90 (50-174)Serum B12 670 -(180-999)

I do give her 1000 of D3 most days and a few b12 sprays each week which has kept her levels similar to a year ago on last test.

I've tried the last year to increase iron rich foods as last year ferritin which was low. It's not made any difference. Can you supplement iron for kids? I see some of the kids multivits have small amounts of iron.

They didn't test folate, I'll mention that along with Tg antibodies if or when they call.

So ideally, will keeping good levels of the ferritin, D3 ,folate and b12 help everything work as it should and hopefully then no thyroid issues pop up?

Thankyou SlowDragon!

[1Cazza]

Hi Check out the iron clinic, ferritin of less than 30 is anemia. There is a lady called Sally Jacks her videos are very interesting you can google them. Eye openers. NHS have woefully low parameters.

[JUUJOO in reply to 1Cazza]

Thankyou, I'll take a look.