If can not cure cold,check the thyroid.

Ms. Chen in Zhengzhou, two weeks before a cold, and its own point of buying cold medicine to take, but after that she felt pain in the neck, but also accompanied by a fever. Think of something wrong, they went to the hospital, after a detailed examination, the doctor told her that she was suffering from the sub-acute thyroiditis, and prior to a certain extent, cold.

According to the coal in Henan Province, deputy director of the General Hospital emergency department physician Yang Xianzhong presentation of subacute thyroiditis is a viral infection-induced inflammatory thyroid tissue damage, often before the onset of upper respiratory tract infection, its most characteristic symptoms of pain in the thyroid area and tenderness at the same time can be accompanied by systemic symptoms such as fever, palpitation, sweating, no energy, loss of appetite and so on. Thyroid from the throat close, just slightly below his trachea on both sides, common in patients with difficult to distinguish between more thoroughly thought it was no good due to a cold, and often do not pay attention to.

At a time when the prevalence of influenza in autumn occasion, Dr Yeoh to remind our readers to distinguish between the common cold and subacute thyroiditis is, where there is significant pain in the neck and neck thickening and accompanied by palpitation, sweat more than other symptoms , it will probably be sub-acute thyroiditis, should go to hospital for an examination.