Symptoms of hyperthyroidism

Recently, there have been media reports that international superstar Jet Li was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, and lost about 8 kg. Jet Li was the hyperthyroidism is the ordinary people-called "big neck disease" do? After the symptoms of illness so what? The loud noise govern? Yesterday, the reporter interviewed relevant experts.

Hyperthyroidism is not are large neck disease

According to the Third People's Hospital of Zhengzhou City, deputy director of Department of Endocrinology, Dr. Liu Long Festival presentations, thyroid is a small butterfly-shaped organ located in the trachea before. Although it is only 6 grams, but it is the body's largest endocrine glands, is the main regulator of human metabolism and its secretion of thyroid hormone can help the human body to use energy to maintain body temperature, to ensure the brain, heart, muscle and other organs normal "operation", known as "the engine of the human body."

The hyperthyroidism is "hyperthyroidism" is abbreviated. "Hyperthyroidism is a serious illness, not simply that people used to say Let the big neck disease." Liu Long Festival said, "big neck disease" is just a kind of hyperthyroidism that eating too much iodine, drugs, or suffering from cancer, have can cause hyperthyroidism.

Of these, approximately 85% of the incidence of hyperthyroidism in patients with autoimmune disorders related to known autoimmune hyperthyroidism, also known as Graves disease.

According to reports, hyperthyroidism more common in young people and middle-aged people, more than half of patients with age of onset of 20 to 40 years. In the child-bearing age women multiple, 6 individuals have a personal disease, and female patients as male patients with 4 ~ 6 times.

How to determine whether the risk of hyperthyroidism

So, after suffering from autoimmune hyperthyroidism What are the symptoms occur? How to judge their own?

First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Department of Endocrinology, chief physician QIN Gui-jun said that the body of hyperthyroidism in patients with varying degrees of change in the system, usually the following clinical changes:

1, exophthalmos. In patients with exophthalmos, eye outward violence.

2, thyroid big. In layman's terms, that is, thick neck.

3, high metabolism. Means faster metabolism. 1. Excitement. Love lost his temper, love of argument, could not sleep, sweating over. 2. Heart beat too fast. Sometimes cause heart disease, such as the premature beat, atrial fibrillation, etc., but also easy to elevated blood pressure, palpitation and other symptoms. 3. Digestive system changes. While eating a lot, but the apparent decline in body weight, or even drop a few kilograms a month, and the increased frequency of bowel movements and even diarrhea. 4. Endocrine system changes. Such as women Yi menstrual disorders, infertility and so on. 5. Blood system changes. Such as leukopenia, thrombocytopenia or anemia. 6. Motor system changes. In patients prone to flaccid paralysis, such as the morning wake up suddenly could not lift his arm up the stairs when the legs could not lift up and so on.

In addition, there are some less typical change is that patients with loss of appetite, weight loss, depression, looked indifferent, indifferent to the surrounding things, lazy movement of few words, the spirit of thinking activities retardation, slow to answer questions and so on.

There are three ways to treat hyperthyroidism

QIN Gui-jun told reporters through a simple blood levels of thyroid hormone (TSH) measurement, we can diagnose whether the thyroid dysfunction is caused by what kind of exception. At present, the treatment methods are surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism, isotope therapy and drug therapy of three.

Among them, surgical treatment for people over 30 years of age, after medical therapy ineffective, thyroid huge, recurrent, or suspected malignant and so on.

Isotope therapy can not be applied to surgery, unwilling to take medicine or drug allergy patients. However, pregnancy and breast-feeding women, and the recent preparations for pregnant women, prohibiting the use of isotope treatment, because the isotope can be damage to the fetus through the placenta of the thyroid gland, or even to cause infertility and other women.

Young, pregnant women, elderly or frail patients with other serious illnesses may make use of drug treatment. In addition, the condition is best choice for patients with relatively light medication.

According to reports, causing autoimmune hyperthyroidism and genetic reasons, though primarily related to, but there are preventive measures, such as do not often angry, excited, do not over-exertion and so on.

As the accelerating pace of modern urban life and suggested that a long period of emotional tension members of the public to increase in the annual physical examination of thyroid function, so that timely detection and timely treatment.

Suffering from hyperthyroidism, do not eat iodized salt

In addition, the QIN Gui-jun reminded that, once diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, the patient should not eat too much iodine in the food, including seafood, such as kelp, seaweed, octopus, shrimp and so on.

In addition, patients with hyperthyroidism is not suitable for eating iodized salt. Patients can come to a doctor's prescription issued to the department to purchase non-iodized salt for salt. If you can not be bought without iodized salt, iodized salt in food prior to drying on the sun for an hour, so that volatile iodine out.