Thyroid Symptoms Causes and Treatments

Thyroid Symptoms Causes and Treatments

What is thyroid?

Thyroid is the name of a gland located in the throat. It is present in the front of the neck of the neck and its shape is like a butterfly. It works to control many types of body metabolic processes.

What are thyroid problems?

Hormones produced from thyroid gland affect all metabolic processes in the body. From thyroid disorders, from small disease like feathers to fatal cancer. But the most common thyroid problem is that the right amount of thyroid hormones is not produced. There are two types of problems-

1. Hyperthyroidism (hyperthyroidism): The emergence of more hormones than necessary
2. Hypothyroidism (Hypothyroidism / Avatu-Hyperactivity): Production of fewer Hormones in Need

   Hyperthyroidism (Overactive Thyroid)

Many times doctors call Hyperthyroidism as overactive thyroid.

Hormones from thyroid gland affect almost all parts of the body, skin, brain, muscles, nothing is untouched by it. The most important thing is to control the energy being used by the body, which we know as metabolism. How heart beats in it, how the body temperature controls and how we burn our calories; These are all included.

Reasons for Being Hypothyroidism

    1 Grave's Dieses

This is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. This is a kind of autoimmune condition in which our body's immune system creates an antibody which causes the Thyroid Gland to release Thyroid hormone more. If a single person in this family is suffering from this disease then more people can also have problems. Generally, these problems occur to young people.

   2. Thyroiditis

Thyroid swelling is called thyroiditis. Thyroiditis causes swelling in thyroid glands due to a problem in a virus or immune system and it starts to leak the hormone in the bloodstream.

Thyroiditis can be of several types:

Subacute

Thyroiditis, which occurs suddenly due to an unknown reason, which cures itself after a few months.

Postpartum

This type of thyroiditis affects women after pregnancy. After childbirth, 1-2 out of 10 women get this problem. Typically this problem persists for a month or two and after a few months, the problem of hypothyroidism arises. But the good thing is that after some time thyroid becomes normal in most cases.

Silent

It is like the postpartum thyroiditis but it has nothing to do with pregnancy.

   3. Thyroid Nodule

In this problem, one or more lumps or nodes grow in Thyroid Gland, which increases the activity of the gland and increases thyroid hormone release in your blood.

   4. Excess iodine

If you consume more iodine only then the problem of hyperthyroidism can arise.

Indeed, our body uses iodine to make thyroid hormone and when it starts getting more in it then the hormone also becomes more and it becomes problematic.

   5. Thyroid Medication

More than taking thyroid hormone medication can also lead to hyperthyroidism. If your hypothyroidism is undergoing treatment, do not take an extra dose of medicine without asking any doctor, even if you have previously forgotten to medicate.

Symptoms of hyperthyroidism:

Often symptoms of hyperthyroidism are not very clear and they are similar to other diseases. If you have a very mild form of hyperthyroidism then it is possible that you will not see any symptoms. But when this problem occurs when you have problems doing things like Rosa-Marra.

Apart from this, these symptoms of hyperthyroidism can be:

• Anxiety, nervousness, and irritability
• Weight loss despite the increase in appetite
• Increasing frequency of bowel movements and loose stomach
• Difficulty in sleep
• Dual sight problem
• Eyes out
• Hair Problems such as rupture, thinning and falling
• Being irregular to heartbeat, especially in older people
• Changes in a menstrual cycle, including decreasing the frequency of light bleeding and frequency of the periods.
• Muscle weakness, especially in thighs and upper arms
• Fingers of nails grow rapidly
• Vibrations of hands
• to sweat
• Skinny skin

How does hyperthyroidism know?

The address can run from these tests:

• Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Blood test
• Thyroid ultrasound
• Radioactive iodine uptake test
• Thyroid scan

Treatment of hyperthyroidism:

Treatment of hyperthyroidism is done by looking at the real cause of your age, health, the severity of symptoms and overactive thyroid.

The doctor can give you treatment in these ways:

Anti-thyroid drugs

In it, drugs like propylthiouracil (PTU) and methimazole (Tapazole) are given, which prevents the thyroid gland from producing new hormones. However, this may have some side effects.

Radio Active Iodine (RAI)

This is the most common way to treat hypothyroidism in America. In this patient is given RAI as a drug pill, which reduces the process of formation of thyroid hormone or completely stops. The person may have hypothyroidism in the side effects of this treatment, but should not be disturbed because it is easier to control hypothyroidism than hyperthyroidism. This treatment cannot be given to pregnant women.

Treatment by surgery

To complete some part of the thyroid or thyroid by surgery, which is called thyroidectomy. In this method, the person has to treat the rest of the life underactive thyroid.

Beta-blockers

They are used to reduce heart rate. The levels of thyroid hormone do not decrease, but the heart rate gets corrected.

Complications arising due to hyperthyroidism

It is very important to treat proper hyperthyroidism. If not doing this, serious and deadly problems can arise.

The main complications associated with hyperthyroidism are:

• Irregular heart rhythm (atrial fibrillation) irregular heart rate
• Heart failure
• Abortion
• Osteoporosis and breakdown of bones (due to hyperthyroidism, calcium is rapidly eliminated from the bones)

The rapid deterioration of hyperthyroidism syndrome is called Thyrotoxic crisis and it is very important to treat it immediately.

It may have the following symptoms:

• Faint
• Be confused
• Decrease in awareness
• A Fever
• Restlessness
• Pulsation

    Hypothyroidism (Underactive Thyroid)

Hypothyroidism is also called an underactive thyroid. The thyroid gland of the person with this disease does not produce the proper amount of thyroid hormone. If the hormone is reduced in the body then the process of the body is slowed. That is, the body produces less energy and our metabolism becomes slow.

These can be of two types:

• If Hypothyroidism is caused by a problem in direct thyroid gland, then it is called Primary Hypothyroidism.
• If any other problem is impaired due to thyroid gland's ability to produce thyroid hormone, it is called Secondary Hypothyroidism.

Reasons for Hypothyroidism

The most common cause of Hypothyroidism is Hashimoto's thyroiditis. This is a kind of autoimmune disorder that causes swelling in thyroid glands. On the occurrence of hemichotozy thyroiditis, the body produces some antibodies that attack and destroy thyroid gland. Thyroiditis may also be caused by a viral infection.

Other causes of Hypothyroidism are as follows:

1. Radiation therapy around the throat: which can be given during the treatment of cancer.
2. Radioactive iodine treatment: If RAI is used in the treatment of overactive thyroid gland, then thyroid gland cells are destroyed due to radiation and it becomes hypothyroidism.
3. Due to certain medicines: Some medicines such as -amiodarone (Cordarone), lithium, interferon alpha, and interleukin-2; to treat heart, cancer, and psychiatric problems; Thyroid reduces or stops production of hormones, thus the problem of hypothyroidism begins.
4. Thyroid Surgery: If a thyroid gland is removed in a treatment, for example: to treat hyperthyroidism then the person becomes hypothyroidism.
5. Iodine deficiency in food: Our body does not make iodine itself, so we should take it in the food. For this iodized salt, eggs, fish, and dairy products should be consumed.
6. Pregnancy: Many women increase the production of thyroid hormone in the first place after pregnancy, which leads to hyperthyroidism, and subsequent production falls to hypothyroidism. In most cases, this problem is automatically lost in a few months.

Who is at risk of hypothyroidism?

Most of these problems are women, especially women of higher age. Even if someone in your home has autoimmune disease, you may still suffer from hypothyroidism.

Some other risk factors are:

• Species (being white or Asian)
• Age (older)
• Gray hair
• Autoimmune disorders, such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease, addison's disease, pernicious anemia, or vitiligo
• Bipolar disorder
• Down syndrome
• Turner syndrome

Symptoms of hypothyroidism:

• Changes in menstrual cycle
• Constipation
• depression
• Hair loss
• Dry skin
• Exhaustion
• To be more sensitive to cold
• Slow heart rate
• Swelling in the thyroid gland (stroke)
• Sudden loss of weight or difficulty in weight loss

How does Hypothyroidism know?

There are some blood tests to detect, in which the level of the hormone is detected. The doctor can ask you for these tests:

• Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)
• T4 (thyroxine)
• Thyroid ultrasound
• Thyroid scan

Treatment of hypothyroidism
For the treatment of hypothyroidism, you can have synthetic (man-made) thyroid hormone T4 prescribe. Which you can take as a tablet. Keep in mind that before taking this, you should tell the doctor about the remaining medicines or food-supplements and diet.

Once this disease has occurred, you have to periodically investigate the blood for thyroid hormone level and have to take medicines according to the existing hormone level.

Hypothyroidism-Complementation

• Heart problems heart disease
• Infertility or Infertility
• Joint pen
• obesity
• In pregnant women, this problem can interfere with the development of the infant. In the first months of pregnancy, the child receives thyroid hormone from his mother and if the mother has this problem then the problem of baby's mental development can be difficult.
• If thyroid hormone levels are very low, then the person may be the most formidable form myxedema of hypothyroidism. In this condition, the person can go into a coma or the temperature of his body may fall very low, which can lead to death.