Very often when patients visits doctors state that they have been effected with the disease of thyroid. To tell you the truth, this is a wrong statement made by them because thyroid is not a disease. Rather it is the biggest gland situated in the human body which very much resembles the shape of a butterfly. It secretes thyroxine or tiff or and helps in secretion of triiodothyronine and T3 hormones. This hormone helps in the metabolism process of the body. 

Generally when doctors say that we have a thyroid we take it as a problem in our thyroid gland. Problems of thyroid include hypothyroidism, thyrotoxicosis, goiter and thyroid cancer.

Hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism is a condition when our thyroid gland is not producing thyroid hormone in the right quantity. The thyroid gland works at a very low pace than normal. This can effect our overall activity and we feel weak and lethargic and get tired very easily. It can even raise the cholesterol level of and could even result in heart attack. Thyroid hormone pills are often prescribed by doctors to cure the same. 

Thyrotoxicosis

Thyrotoxicosis is a condition which is marked by having an excess amount of thyroid hormone in the body. This problem also occurs because of taking too much of thyroid medicine for a long time. Some of the symptoms of this problem includes fast heart beat, weight loss and insomnia. Treatment depends on factors like age of the patient, severity and cause of the problem. 

Goitre

Goitre is a condition in which the thyroid gland enlarges and does not work properly. Generally the deficiency of the iodine nutrient in our body leads to such a condition. The glands as such enlarges in its effort to produce hormones for our body. It is also known as iodine deficiency disease. Some of the symptoms include difficulty in swallowing food and water and breathing problems. People who are going through this disease needs to go through food items which are rich iodine land include carrot, egg, garlic onion etc. in their food chart.

Thyroid Cancer

The reason or cause of thyroid cancer is unknown but heredity or family history plays an important role in it. Besides, excess amount of exposure to the radiation is the other cause for it. There are many types of thyroid cancers among which papillary cancer is found in almost 80 percent of the cases. Symptoms include pain in the neck during swallowing of food and water, swollen throat etc. Radiation therapy and radioactive treatments are used to treat the disease. 

Why Thyroid Occurs ?

Hypothyroidism and graves' diseases are the most common problems found among thyroid patients. It is important to inform you here that grave disease is a type of disorder that produces an excess amount of thyroid hormones which affects different systems of our body. Though not life threatening but it could affect anyone. The main reason behind these two diseases is auto immunity. Auto immunity problems are those that goes against the different systems or structures of our body. Moreover, the cause behind hypothyroidism is radiation treatment therapy for certain disease treatment, problems in thyroid gland through birth and even because of side effects of some medicines

Effects Of Hypothyroidism

Different types of problems occurs because of hypothyroidism like laziness, falling of hairs, slow growth rate in children, tastelessness in mentality, constipation, weaknesses, dry skin, decline in sex power among males and accumulation of fluids around the heart. Some people also claims that hypothyroidism also results in fattiness and overweight but this is not true because it only increases the overall weight of a person by two to three kilograms.

The effect of hypothyroidism include getting slimmer than normal, excess amount of sweating, depression, increase in blood sugar level, weightlessness etc. Moreover, sometimes the eyes of the person protrudes of the eye socket (Exophthalmos). Besides, skin and nail problems could also be very much related with it. If one goes on without any treatment for a long time then it could result in heart failure or stroke. It could also result in the decrease of potassium level in the body.

Remedy

First, it should be borne in mind that by doing physical activities like exercise, yoga etc diseases like diabetes, high blood sugar cannot be cured. The same fact holds true to the problem of hypothyroidism also. The best and effective way to cure thyroid is to go for the treatment as soon as it is detected. But yes, in those cases where hypothyroidism occurs because of the lack of iodine in our body could be cured by taking it in sufficient amount along with our diets.

It is important to mention here that in foreign countries as soon as a baby born thyroid tests are conducted or done. This very process is known as Universal Neonatal Screening. Unfortunately, in our country it is not compulsary. But if the parents does so it is detected at an early stage and treatment starts earlier which helps to cure the disease at an early pace.

Treatment

Now-a-days there are many ways through which thyroid could be treated. Now thyroid has become such a problem which is not only very easy to detect but the treatment of it is also very fruitful and easy. But usually patients are required to take medicines throughout their lives. Graves disease can be treated in three ways, namely, medical or through medicines, surgery and by radiation therapy. The treatment process though varies from country to country and from physician to physician. The patient should be well aware about what way he chooses for treatment along with the physician. The good thing is that this treatment process is available in India at every nook and corner of the country. We should always keep the fact in mind that through proper treatment thyroid problems could be cured.

Even if thyroid cancer is detected an early and timely treatment would cure it. To end, if anyone gets affected with thyroid he or she must seek the help of the various government and private health clinics and get it cured as early as possible. Always remember this famous line, “Where there is a will, there is a way”.

• Written by ajay.
• In category Diseases.
• 12 years ago.

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