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What Causes Unusual Weight Gain In An Active Child?

About an hour after eating, my 14 y daughter completely crashes and even has a huge personality change. This is worse when exercise is involved. She can barely make it thru a tennis match without crashing. Her testing shows no significant decline in blood sugar to indicate hypoglycemia. Her pyruvic acid and lactic acid is consistently below normal every test and her alpha ketoglutaric acid is always extremely high. I feel that there is an enzyme or something that is not working properly but can't get the doctors to listen. She is incredibly active and cannot lose weight either. She does not eat junk food or drink colas yet she keeps gaining weight. Her thighs are disproportionately large. Her thyroid levels were fine.Could this be a metabolic/glycolic problem? Getting no answers from dr. here. I know something is wrong.
Thu, 14 May 2015
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Hi,
Thank you for asking question on health care magic.
You have written everything except weight of your daughter.
Please let me know the weight of the child so that I can assess whether it is over weight or not.
Some children have genetic predisposition.
Hope this answer will serve your purpose
Please feel free to ask any more queries if required
Take care
Dr.M.V.Subrahmanyam MD;DCH
Associate professor of pediatrics
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What Causes Unusual Weight Gain In An Active Child?

Hi, Thank you for asking question on health care magic. You have written everything except weight of your daughter. Please let me know the weight of the child so that I can assess whether it is over weight or not. Some children have genetic predisposition. Hope this answer will serve your purpose Please feel free to ask any more queries if required Take care Dr.M.V.Subrahmanyam MD;DCH Associate professor of pediatrics