What symptom does thyroid nodule have?

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Some time ago, I felt hoarse when I was talking. I thought it was caused by a cold, so I didn't care. But recently, there was pain in my throat, and I felt a lump. Sometimes I felt like I had difficulty breathing. So I went to a medical examination and found that it was a thyroid nodule. Because it was serious, I had to have surgery, How can early detection avoid surgical treatment, so share the early symptoms of thyroid nodules here, so that you can be alert.

What symptom does thyroid nodule have?

Nodular goiter is more common in middle-aged women. When the thyroid hormone is relatively insufficient in the body, the pituitary gland secretes more TSH. Under the stimulation of this increased TSH for a long time, the thyroid gland proliferates repeatedly or continuously, resulting in the increase of thyroid heterogeneity and nodular degeneration. There may be hemorrhage, cystic change and calcification in the nodules. The size of the nodules can range from several millimeters to several centimeters. The main clinical manifestation is goiter. Multiple nodules of different sizes can be palpated during palpation. The texture of the nodules is mostly medium hardness. A few patients can only touch a single nodule, but multiple nodules are often found during thyroid imaging or surgery. The patient's clinical symptoms are not many, generally only cervical discomfort, thyroid function test is mostly normal.

The onset of nodular toxic goiter is slow. It often occurs in patients with nodular goiter for many years. Most of them are over 40-50 years old, and most of them are female. It can be accompanied by hyperthyroidism and body disease. However, the symptoms of hyperthyroidism are generally mild, often atypical, and generally do not have invasive exophthalmos. Thyroid palpation can touch a smooth round or oval nodules, clear boundary, hard texture, with swallowing up and down activities, thyroid site without vascular murmur. Thyroid function test showed elevated thyroid hormone in blood, and radionuclide scan showed "hot nodules" in patients with functional autonomic nodules.

Inflammatory nodules are divided into infectious and non infectious types. The former is mainly subacute thyroiditis caused by virus infection, while other infections are rare. In addition to thyroid nodules, subacute thyroiditis is accompanied by fever and local pain. The size of the nodules depends on the extent of the lesion and the texture is tough; The latter is mainly caused by autoimmune thyroiditis, more common in young and middle-aged women, patients with fewer symptoms, examination can touch multiple or single nodules, tough texture, less tenderness, thyroid function examination showed that thyroglobulin antibody and thyroid micro particle antibody often showed strong positive.

matters needing attention

Iodine in the diet has the greatest impact on the thyroid gland. Insufficient or excessive iodine intake will cause thyroid lesions. Iodine deficiency is the main cause of goiter. The daily diet of people in Plateau and mountainous areas often contains insufficient iodine, so iodized salt should be used for cooking. The intake of iodine should be controlled in coastal areas.