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Home > West Medicine > Pediatrics > Pediatric Internal Med

Classroom classification

百科

Pediatric iodine deficiency

小儿内科

Common symptoms

甲状腺肿大、甲状腺功能低下、缺碘、表情淡漠、声音嘶哑、甲状腺肿、黏液性水肿、斜视、便秘、腱反射亢进

The pathology of disease

Pediatric iodine deficiency is goiter; hypothyroidism; developmental; endemic; iodized salt; iodine supplementation; public health.

Symptoms

Goiter; developmental delay; hypothyroidism; endemic; child; maternal deficiency

Causes

Dietary iodine deficiency; endemic; soil; maternal.

Treatment

Iodized salt; iodine supplementation; levothyroxine if hypothyroid; public health; endocrinology

Dept

Endocrinology / pediatrics / public health.

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