Thyroid gland secretes the hormones responsible for the metabolism caused by calories burning in the body. It is an endocrine that secretes its hormones directly into the blood. It does not need special channels. The thyroid needs iodine in our natural food to work properly. , And may suffer from the thyroid gland problems that lead to increased secretion of these hormones or decrease and therefore result in this increase and decrease many problems of the body.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism
- Weight gain, because a decrease in thyroid hormones works to reduce the body’s ability to burn calories and thus accumulate as fat in the body.
- Feelings of headaches at intervals may be persistent.
- Weakness of hair and falling easily.
- Feeling weak in muscles and joints, fatigue, fatigue, lethargy, and inability to exercise life normally.
- Problems occur in memory and forget a lot, finding difficulty in concentration.
- Increase the feeling of cold, and inability to tolerate because of the inability of the body to control its temperature.
- Constipation.
- Feeling depressed and mood swings.
Symptoms of increased thyroid secretions
- High body temperature and thus the inability of the injured to bear free.
- Excessive sweating and excess.
- Weakness of hair and its bombing and falling.
- Breathing difficulty.
- diarrhea.
- Increased heart rate.
- Feeling rattling in the hand.
- The presence of pain and redness in the eyes.
- Excessive nerve.
- Weakness of sleep and relaxation.
Methods of treatment of thyroid diseases
In the case of increased thyroid secretion of hormones
- Use of drugs that inhibit thyroid activity and secretion of hormones.
- The use of radioactive iodine in reducing the secretion of hormones, and inhibiting the action of the gland completely.
- A diet for the treatment of increased secretion of the gland, and be under the supervision of the doctor and specialists in this area; as there are certain types of foods stimulate the work of the thyroid gland to increase secretions.
- In some cases, the patient may need surgical intervention in order to reduce the secretion of hormones, and is recommended for this treatment, especially if there is an enlarged size of the thyroid gland.
In case of hypothyroidism of hormones
- Supplementary pills supplementing the work of incomplete hormones and compensating them.
- A diet for the treatment of hypothyroidism, under the supervision of a doctor and specialists in this area; there are some types of foods that inhibit the work of the thyroid gland.
- In some cases the cause of the lack of secretion of hormones is the cancer of the gland, and here is the treatment is the eradication of the whole gland.