[OttoHart April 27, 2017 at 11:48 am Post count: 1]

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Our 14 year old daughter was diagnosed with graves disease 2 weeks ago. What percentage of children have this disease? Our School is completely un responsive to our needs. They treat her like all the other kids not allowing her to use restroom because she goes all the time and they believe she is doing it to get out of class. She is stressed to the max in school and falling behind so they punish her with detention. They are clueless to the disease and we would have thought that they would have other students that have had it. Does anyone know how common this disease is in children?

[KimberlyOnline Facilitator April 28, 2017 at 9:38 am Post count: 4288]

#1185022

Hello and welcome – Graves’ is much more rare in children than adults, but that is AWFUL that the school isn’t recognizing this as a serious condition. I’m including a couple of links below, but check out the “Students and Graves'” bulletin first. The school needs to set up an Individualized Education Plan to address your daughter’s needs while she is being treated. To not let her use the restroom as needed is just flat out cruel.

Wishing you and your daughter all the best!

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Students and Graves’:
http://gdatf.org/about/about-graves-disease/patient-education/students-graves/

GDATF YouTube Channel:
(look for videos from Dr. Scott Rivkees and Dr. Michael Gottschalk, as well as the playlist of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia seminar):

https://www.youtube.com/user/GravesAndThyroid/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/GravesAndThyroid/playlists

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