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**Amerworma** · 08-12-2012, 01:31 AM

The very interesting fact I found.....no doctor runs TSH on a child of 13 or so.....so there is no reference on the individual of what a normal TSH really is for them. Instead, we need to conform to the avg of folks in older age that they actually run a tsh on. If I had one message to spread....it would be that if you have a child....get a few baseline tsh levels....then you would know later what they need to be. Don't go by the avgs that labs post....they acknowledge they don't know what the levels are on persons under 18 yrs of age,....so the idea of normal is sort of subjective right now.

08-12-2012, 01:31 AM	#7
Amerworma Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 466 Senior Member	The very interesting fact I found.....no doctor runs TSH on a child of 13 or so.....so there is no reference on the individual of what a normal TSH really is for them. Instead, we need to conform to the avg of folks in older age that they actually run a tsh on. If I had one message to spread....it would be that if you have a child....get a few baseline tsh levels....then you would know later what they need to be. Don't go by the avgs that labs post....they acknowledge they don't know what the levels are on persons under 18 yrs of age,....so the idea of normal is sort of subjective right now.
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