What are the causes and symptoms of hypothyroidism?

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Hypothyroidism, or hypothyroidism, is a clinical syndrome caused by the lack of thyroid hormone and the decline of body metabolic activity. Hypothyroidism in adults is called "adult hypothyroidism", and the most severe is myxedema, so it is also called "myxedema". Coma patients are called "myxedema coma", and patients in embryo or infant period are called "myxedema coma", Seriously affect the growth and development of the brain and body, become a demented dwarf, known as "silly disease" or "cretinism". Hypothyroidism occurs in childhood; When it appears in adulthood, it is called adult hypothyroidism. What are the causes and symptoms of hypothyroidism? Let's talk about it

What are the causes and symptoms of hypothyroidism?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that improper diet, abnormal hunger and fullness or excessive cold, cold accumulation in the stomach, damage to the spleen yang, congenital lack of endowment, or improper postnatal care, insufficient water and grain essence, spleen and kidney deficiency. Chronic disease or new disease, improper medication, too much bitter and cold, vomiting and diarrhea, damage spleen and stomach, damage Yang Qi. The main pathogenesis of this disease is deficiency of Yang Qi in spleen and kidney, attenuation of viscera function, leading to asthenia and edema.

Modern medicine believes that hypothyroidism can be caused by the dysfunction of thyroid, pituitary and hypothalamus. Endemic goiter is hypothyroidism caused by insufficient iodine in the diet. Goiter is the hypertrophy of the thyroid gland. Because of iodine deficiency, thyroid cells are overactivated and proliferated in order to absorb more iodine from the blood, eventually leading to thyroid enlargement. Maternal autoimmune thyroid disease during pregnancy, resulting in thyroid hypoplasia or thyroid hormone synthesis disorders can also lead to neonatal hypothyroidism.

The most common primary cause of adult hypothyroidism is the damage of thyroid itself, which is mainly caused by the late development of autoimmune thyroiditis (also known as Hashimoto's disease). It is the cause of adult hypothyroidism in women over 40 years old. Secondly, hypothyroidism caused by thyroidectomy or radionuclide therapy for hyperthyroidism is occasionally seen in thyroid pain, acute thyroiditis after neck radiotherapy, etc. in addition to thyroid disease itself, a small number of hypothyroidism can occur due to pituitary or hypothalamic lesions causing thyroid hormone synthesis and secretion disturbance.

matters needing attention

The diet is mainly multivitamin, high protein and high calorie. Do not eat too much cold food. The patient should combine movement with rest and take proper exercise. Develop the habit of defecating every day. Keep warm and avoid getting cold. Diet should strengthen nutrition, but avoid cold and raw products. If complicated with severe acute infection, severe mental symptoms, pleural effusion, ascites and pericardial effusion, intractable angina pectoris, heart failure, myxedematous coma, they should be sent to the hospital for treatment immediately.