What are the symptoms of thyroiditis?

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Thyroiditis is a common autoimmune disease, which mostly occurs in female patients. The number of patients is rising every year, which has brought serious trouble to the life of patients and has attracted people's attention. What are the main early symptoms of thyroiditis? Let's invite experts to introduce them.

What are the symptoms of thyroiditis?

Early patients will feel cold, physical fatigue and general discomfort symptoms, in this period of patients with hungry thyroid body is generally 2 ~ 3 times larger than normal, we often have diffuse, asymmetric goiter, which is hard, there will be pain, tenderness is very obvious.

What are the main early symptoms of thyroiditis? Generally speaking, the patient's onset is acute. There will be pain in the front neck and tenderness in the thyroid part of the patient, and it will radiate to the back, submaxillary, neck or occipital part. The patient will get worse when swallowing or chewing. Thyroiditis can start from one side and slowly expand to both sides and the whole body, At this time, the patient's local pain will be relieved, but the overall pain will continue. Due to the destruction of thyroid follicular cells and the exposure of thyroid hormone and non hormone iodization, the patient will have hyperthyroidism symptoms about a week later, usually lasting for 2 days.

When the patient's thyroid follicles have not been repaired, the patient's serum thyroid hormone can be reduced to the level of hypothyroidism, we call it hypothyroidism, but most patients will not appear hypothyroidism, but directly into the recovery period.

matters needing attention

1. Strengthening the resistance and avoiding upper respiratory tract infection and pharyngitis are helpful to prevent the occurrence of this disease. 2. It should be avoided to use iodine containing drugs for women with history of this disease, so as to avoid inducing hypothyroidism.