Patient details to be recorded at diagnosis
SPEG (Scottish Paediatric Endocrine Group)
- History.
- Physical symptoms, Duration of symptoms.
- Psychiatric Symptoms.
- School performance.
- Other symptoms of autoimmune disease – vitiligo, coeliac etc.
- Family History of thyroid disease, diabetes, other autoimmune diseases.
Table 1. Prevalence of symptoms reported in BPSU survey (110 cases)
| Total | Graves' disease | Other cause of thyrotoxicosis | |
| Weight loss | 63.64% | 67.40% | 44.44% |
| Fatigue / tiredness / lethargy | 53.64% | 56.60% | 38.89% |
| Change in behaviour | 60.00% | 53.25% | 33.33% |
| Heat intolerance | 47.27% | 60.00% | 33.33% |
| Nervousness / anxiety | 47.27% | 60.00% | 33.33% |
| Increased appetite | 47.27% | 60.00% | 33.33% |
| Palpitations | 25.91% | 35.60% | 5.56% |
| Profuse sweating | 26.36% | 27.20% | 22.22% |
| Deteriorating school performance | 22.73% | 25.00% | 11.25 |
| Headache | 21.82% | 22.60% | 16.67% |
| Diarrhoea | 16.36% | 16.25% | 16.67% |
| Asymptomatic (e.g. picked up on screening) | 9.09% | 8.60% | 11.25 |
| Pain in thyroid gland | 3.64% | 3.25% | 5.56% |
| Weight gain | 1.82% | 2.20% | 0.00% |