The pituitary gland is a gland located in the base of the brain the size of a pea, where the gland is the secretion of hormones, which in turn affect the functions and growth of other glands in the human body in addition to regulate the amounts of fluid in the body and maintained, and may occur some disorders in this The gland, one of the disorders that people suffer from the presence of hormone levels too much or too little, and may be the most common cause of this is caused by pituitary tumors.
Pituitary gland symptoms
Pituitary disorders are classified into two parts: hyperthyroidism, and pituitary deficiency.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism occurs when a hormone is overprocessed from the pituitary. For example, when the pituitary gland increases its secretion, it leads to an increase in growth, or so-called hypercalcemia in children, or a condition known as hyperthyroidism in adults, Which causes the increase in the size of body tissues with time and these symptoms include the following:
- Increase in hair growth among women.
- Largeness occurs in the feet, hands, face, and forehead.
- A change occurs in the color of the skin.
- Occurs in the tongue.
- Increased sweating and apnea during sleep.
- Muscle weakness and joint pain.
- Feeling of headaches and hoarseness.
- Milk out of the breast in women.
- Problems with vision.
- Numbness of the skin and menopause or dysfunction.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism occurs when the gland does not secrete sufficient amounts of a particular hormone. For example, when the pituitary gland does not do its necessary work, it results in slow growth during childhood. If the hind gland produces the condition of the bovine gland, Paula excess rate leading to drought, and the emergence of signs and symptoms and severity of the hormone deficiency and the symptoms are as follows:
- Lack of sexual arousal and infertility.
- Feeling faint.
- The patient feels cold and sensitive, with the difficulty of feeling constant warmth.
- Weight loss.
- Do not eat enough and needed, with anorexia.
- Anemia.
- Swelling of the face.
- Short in height in children.
- Lack of hair in the face and body in men.