In recent years, the issue of the thyroid gland has become increasingly important. Let's see together what diseases of the thyroid gland exist and how they are treated.
So, let's start with the symptoms by which you can determine that your thyroid gland is malfunctioning. If you lose or gain weight without any reason, you become easily irritated and quickly tired, you notice dry skin and swelling, you don’t tolerate cold, regularly experience unreasonable weakness and strange trembling, you feel sweating and a fast heartbeat, you feel soreness and discomfort in the throat, Feel sleepy during the day. All this may indicate significant thyroid dysfunction.
Long-term experience in the work of endocrinologists shows that the faster the patient addressed his problem, the lower financial costs and greater clinical effect can help him.
What is the thyroid gland?
This organ is located in the throat in the form of a butterfly, and, despite its rather small size, its tasks are very important. Thyroid hormones, which, in essence, are biologically active substances, are produced by it directly in the blood, due to which the work of the reproductive system, musculoskeletal system, brain, heart and muscles is supported, metabolism in all tissues of the human body is stimulated. Accordingly, failures in the work of this body necessarily entail violations in the vital functions of the whole organism.
The thyroid gland plays an important role in carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism. With a reduced formation of hormones, fat cells are converted into cholesterol in the majority, which suggests a more rapid development of atherosclerotic signs, primarily in the blood vessels of the brain and heart.
The functions of the thyroid gland, in principle, like the functions of each endocrine organ, are directly related to the activity of the whole organism. That is why with any thyroid disease many other internal organs and, above all, the nervous and cardiac systems, are subject to disturbances and malfunctions.
What causes thyroid diseases?
Iodine deficiency in adolescents and children can result in a delay in physical development. In people of all age groups, it threatens with a decrease in intelligence and an increase in the thyroid gland (the formation of goiter). But iodine deficiency during pregnancy is especially dangerous - a deficiency of this chemical element in expectant mothers, in principle, like any violation of the activity of the thyroid endocrine organ, leads to stillbirth, spontaneous miscarriages and even permanent damage to the fetal brain.
The most effective way of prevention is the use of sea fish, algae and seafood, iodized salt, preparations that contain physiological doses of iodine, up to two hundred micrograms per day. If you notice that your thyroid gland is not normal, or some other problems with this organ, you should definitely be examined by an endocrinologist. Since it is likely that this disease has nothing to do with iodine deficiency.
These are stresses, and a hereditary predisposition to thyroid pathologies, and an increased degree of solar activity. But often the thyroid gland does not work properly due to iodine deficiency, since iodine is a necessary trace element for the synthesis of hormones of this organ. For normal functioning, the thyroid organ needs iodine, like a person in food. Almost throughout the CIS, the consumption of iodine with water and food is very reduced.