When To Visit a Pediatric Endocrinologist
- Symptoms of diabetes (increased thirst, frequent urination, constant hunger, weight loss, and extreme fatigue)
- Growth failure/slow growth
- Child is significantly shorter than expected for family
- Overweight/Obesity
- Ambiguous genitalia, micropenis
- Hirsutism, menstrual problems
- Girls with early breast development (before 8 years)
- Girls with no breast enlargement by age 13 and boys with no testicular
enlargement by age 14
- Girls with no menses by age 16
- Rickets
- Goiter
- Endocrine complications of systemic illness and their therapies (as in children with cancers, thalassemia, chronic renal disease, cystic fibrosis)
