What are the symptoms of goiter?

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Experts say that the harm of goiter is very big, serious will lead to the occurrence of lesions, so in life we should know more about the symptoms of goiter, early detection and treatment has a certain help, when the body often appear low fever and weight loss, pay more attention to, go to the hospital to find out the cause in time, in order to do better treatment.

What are the symptoms of goiter?

Goiter is usually a compensatory goiter caused by iodine deficiency. Generally, there is no abnormal thyroid function. Sporadic goiter is caused by a variety of reasons, that is, the body's demand for thyroid hormone increases. When the body's thyroid hormone is insufficient, the secretion of thyroid stimulating hormone in serum will increase, This can lead to thyroid tissue hyperplasia.

Goiter may appear hypermetabolic syndrome, mainly for fear of heat and sweating, often low fever, crisis may appear high fever, most patients will have palpitations, pulse speed, stomach appear obvious hyperfunction, but weight will be reduced.

Thyroid gland will appear to become swollen, there are a few patients with goiter will be asymmetric, or swelling is more obvious. At the same time, thyroid blood flow increased, vascular murmur and tremor could be heard outside the upper and lower lobes, especially in the upper part of the gland. Goiter to a certain extent, recurrent laryngeal nerve will be compressed, patients will appear hoarseness and spasmodic cough, when recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis often appear serious hoarseness and aphasia. When the sympathetic nerve in the neck is compressed, the pupil will expand. If the sympathetic nerve is seriously compressed and paralyzed, the eyeball will sink, the eyelid will droop and the pupil will shrink.

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Iodine is an important raw material for the synthesis of thyroid hormone. The level of thyroid hormone in blood decreased, and the negative feedback effect on adenohypophysis weakened, which increased the secretion of thyroid stimulating hormone in adenohypophysis. Thyroid stimulating hormone can promote the proliferation of thyroid cells, resulting in goiter.