What is hypothyroidism - can it be accompanied by abnormal menstruation?

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In daily life, if you don't pay attention to your health, you will be affected by the disease, just like hypothyroidism, which is a common disease now, and often occurs in female friends. If you don't treat it in time, it will bring serious harm to patients. What is hypothyroidism? Next, I'll give you a brief introduction.

What is hypothyroidism - can it be accompanied by abnormal menstruation?

First: hypothyroidism patients are more common in women, often with more menstrual volume, long menstrual period, resulting in excessive blood loss, at the same time, low appetite, malnutrition aggravate anemia, and anemia is very common in middle-aged women, not easy to cause attention, anemia patients are often accompanied by cold, anorexia, fatigue and other symptoms, so many hypothyroidism is often misdiagnosed as anemia for a long time, and can not get timely diagnosis Break and treat.

Second: hypothyroidism patients with water and sodium retention increase tongue growth, hoarseness, hand and foot increases, sometimes mistaken for acromegaly, but hypothyroidism patients normal serum growth hormone levels, most of the patients pituitary is not large, a small number of long-term hypothyroidism patients pituitary * only slightly increased.

Third: Patients with hypothyroidism should pay attention to the most is, in time to the hospital to check whether the symptoms of hypothyroidism is serious, if more serious, then you need to carry out an appropriate treatment to help improve the symptoms of hypothyroidism.

matters needing attention

For hypothyroidism, it is generally caused by iodine deficiency, so we should pay attention to supplement iodine in our daily life. In addition, we should supplement rich protein and vitamins.