> From:   Nancy Dunham <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Do any of you by chance have hormone imbalance as I and my son do -- and
> have you looked into the play of milk products and the hormones and
> antibiotics fed to cows to make the milk so cheap?

Low thyroid is a hormone imbalance.  It coexists with and causes other
hormone deficiencies.  I'm sure the growth hormone (It's natural, just like what
they produce), fluoride (it's rat poison, you know) in the water, hormones in
meat, pesticides on foood all contribute to making it even worse.  They seem to
be worried about antibiotic resistance and giving too many to people, yet they
are in the food supply.

As for your son's TSH, it's what caused me to rule out hypothyroidism as the
source of my son's problems.  That, and the fact his symptoms were completely
different than mine.  He wouldn't eat, he would be urgently hungry and sit
down to eat supper and eat two bites and be stuffed.  He lost the vision in one
eye (temporarily for about a year), had learning and behavioral problems.  His
growth also slowed down.

These symptoms were far different from mine so I had the doctor take his TSH
twice.  I think the highest was 2.2.

Doc Don put him on Armour and he could eat like a normal child and started
growing again.

Sounds like your son is having known symptoms.  Maybe a change in diet will
help.  My son ate a lot of cereal.  The anti-fluoride people say there's a lot
of fluoride in it. Fluoride is a known anti-thyroid agent and was used at one
time to alleviate the symptoms of the hyperthyroid.  Not to mention sugar is
mostly cereal anyway.  But, when a child barely eats anything at all, it 's
hard to tell him he can't eat something.

Anyway, if he is hypothytoid, unless the diet change can cure the low
thyroid, it is imperative for children to be treated during their developing years.
Their future menal and physical health may depend on it.  Those brains need
thyroid hormone to develop.

When my son was having problems, what led me to decide he was really having
thyroid problems was a website by a children's growth clinic called the Magic
Foundation.  They gave his symptoms and said every child with these problems
should have their TSH checked as well as their free T4 and maybe T3 levels.  A
low TSH only tells you the pituitary isn't producing much, it doesn't tell you
whether the pituitary is the problem or the thyroid.  I think if they have
symptoms, they should be treated regardless of the labs, but at least they
mentioned lab tests beyond TSH as being important.

Skipper



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