How about eating kelp for hypothyroidism?

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Suffering from hypothyroidism, we should also pay attention to diet. Kelp is a common food in our life. We all know that the iodine content in kelp is very high. Some people think that we should take in iodine, so we should eat a lot of kelp. So, hypothyroidism patients should be a lot of iodine? Now I will give you a detailed introduction.

How about eating kelp for hypothyroidism?

First of all, many people think that after suffering from hypothyroidism, they need to eat more kelp and other seafood, because iodine is the raw material for the synthesis of thyroid hormone. This is actually wrong. There is also a lot of iodine in these foods. Although iodine is the raw material for the production of thyroid hormone, hypothyroid patients can not be properly utilized after eating these iodine containing foods. The ability of hypothyroid thyroid cells to absorb iodine is reduced, and they will not use these raw materials to make thyroid hormone. Therefore, it is incorrect to treat hypothyroidism by eating more kelp.

Secondly, after some patients were diagnosed with hypothyroidism, they took a very strict diet to limit iodine intake, which is also wrong. This is to confuse hypothyroidism with hyperthyroidism. When hyperthyroidism, eat kelp, Porphyra, sea fish, shrimp and other food, increase the intake of iodine, hyperthyroidism thyroid cells can make full use of these iodine to synthesize more thyroid hormones, which is not conducive to the treatment. Hypothyroidism, hypothyroidism, the ability to absorb iodine decreased, so patients with hypothyroidism can not be as strict as hyperthyroidism when limiting iodine intake. Of course, excessive iodine intake in the short term may lead to fluctuations in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, a major type of hypothyroidism, which is not easy to control. Therefore, it is OK for hypothyroidism patients to eat a small amount of sea fish, shrimp and other food, as long as they don't eat a lot of seafood in a short time.

In addition, one of the manifestations of hypothyroidism is that it is difficult to defecate and the stool is dry. Patients should often eat some easily digestible food. They can eat more vegetables and fruits, such as bananas, which can help to solve the problem of constipation.

matters needing attention

(1) Supply enough protein. (2) Add appropriate amount of iodine. (3) Avoid goiter, such as Brassica napus, cabbage, cabbage, etc. (4) Correct anemia, supply rich vitamins: anemia should be supplemented with iron rich diet, supplement vitamin B12, such as animal liver, if necessary, but also supply folic acid, liver preparations. (4) Patients with hypothyroidism who limit fat and cholesterol rich diet often have hyperlipidemia, which is more obvious in primary hypothyroidism. Therefore, we should limit fat diet and cholesterol rich diet.