Nodular goiter symptoms?

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Nodular goiter is actually the late symptom of two kinds of goiter, and the incidence rate is very high. So we should pay attention to nodular goiter. Nodular goiter is not only harmful to our body, but also to our external image. Is nodular goiter a symptom? Now let me tell you something.

Nodular goiter symptoms?

The patient has a long-term history of simple goiter. The age of onset is generally over 30 years old. The female is more than the male. The degree of goiter is different. The number and size of the nodules are different. It is usually multiple nodules. In the early stage, there may be only one nodule. The nodule is soft or slightly hard, smooth, painless, and sometimes the boundary of the nodule is unclear, Only irregular or lobulated sensation can be felt when touching the surface of thyroid gland

The progress of the disease is slow, and most patients have no symptoms. Large nodular goiter can cause compression symptoms, dyspnea, dysphagia and hoarseness. Acute bleeding in the nodules can cause sudden enlargement and pain of the mass. The symptoms can subside in a few days, and the enlarged mass can decrease in a few weeks or longer.

Nodular goiter with hyperthyroidism (Plummer's disease), the patient has fatigue, weight loss, palpitations, arrhythmias, fear of heat, sweating, excitability and other symptoms, but no local thyroid vascular murmur and tremor, exophthalmos is rare, finger tremor is rare, the symptoms of old patients are often atypical.

matters needing attention

Nodular goiter is not as simple as we think. Although its external symptom is only the protrusion of thyroid, it is a pathological change of body tissue inside the body, and it is also a kind of relatively serious goiter. Therefore, we must not ignore nodular goiter.