TREATMENT:-
Medical treatment:
Levothyroxine is a stereoisomer of thyroxine which is degraded much slower and can be administered once daily in patients with hypothyroidism.
Graves' disease may be treated with the thioamide drugs propylthiouracil, carbimazole or methimazole, or rarely with Lugol's solution. Hyperthyroidism as well as thyroid tumors may be treated with radioactive iodine.
Percutaneous Ethanol Injections, PEI, for therapy of recurrent thyroid cysts, and metastatic thyroid cancer lymph nodes, as an alternative to the usual surgical method.
Thyroid surgery:
Thyroid surgery is performed for a variety of reasons. A nodule or lobe of the thyroid is sometimes removed for biopsy or for the presence of an autonomously functioning adenoma causing hyperthyroidism. A large majority of the thyroid may be removed, a subtotal thyroidectomy, to treat the hyperthyroidism of Graves' disease, or to remove a goitre that is unsightly or impinges on vital structures. A complete thyroidectomy of the entire thyroid, including associated lymph nodes, is the preferred treatment for thyroid cancer. Removal of the bulk of the thyroid gland usually produces hypothyroidism, unless the person takes thyroid hormone replacement.
If the thyroid gland must be removed surgically, care must be taken to avoid damage to adjacent structures, the parathyroid glands and the recurrent laryngeal nerve. Both are susceptible to accidental removal and/or injury during thyroid surgery. The parathyroid glands produce parathyroid hormone (PTH), a hormone needed to maintain adequate amounts of calcium in the blood. Removal results in hypoparathyroidism and a need for supplemental calcium and vitamin D each day. The recurrent laryngeal nerves provide motor control for all external muscles of the larynx except for the cricothyroid muscle, also runs along the posterior thyroid. Accidental laceration of either of the two or both recurrent laryngeal nerves may cause paralysis of the vocal cords and their associated muscles, changing the voice quality.
Radioiodine therapy:
Large goiters that cause symptoms, but do not harbor cancer, after evaluation, and biopsy of suspicious nodules can be treated by an alternative therapy with radioiodine. The iodine uptake can be high in countries with iodine deficiency, but low in iodine sufficient countries. The 1999 release of rhTSH thyrogen in the USA, can boost the uptakes to 50-60% allowing the therapy with iodine 131. The gland shrinks by 50-60%, but can cause hypothyroidism, and rarely pain syndrome cause by radiation thyroiditis that is short lived and treated by steroids. Rare cases of Graves' disease have been reported after goiter I/131 therapy. This is still an off label use of Thyrogen, but is a very excellent alternative to surgery..
Do consult a doctor!!
2006-10-09 11:21:41
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answered by Anonymous
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I am clearly missing something somewhere, the natural way since the stone age was basically not to get better. Once you developed a chronic condition you were stuck with it. An acute one was often fatal, pneumonia often killed you, an infected wound was frequently a lethal and terminal event. The natural course of a patient with underactive thyroid was for the patient to get tired and sluggish, for them to feel cold and their skin to coarsen. Their hair would thin and their nails become brittle, their voice deepened and became croaky and they became course featured and expressionless. They became depressed, slow witted and sometime psychotic, (myxoedematous madness.) They gained weight and their heart rate slowed, they were also more prone to heart failure and heart attacks. This situation remained unchanged until in 1894 Eugen Baumann a brilliant German scientist was the first to treat people's underactive thyroids with extracts made from animal thyroid glands. In 1914, the American biochemist Edward Kendall isolated and used the crystalline form of the hormone, which was later named thyroxine. In 1926 the British chemist C. R. Harington (1897-1972) determined thyroxine's exact structure and synthesized it. Their unnatural genius has allowed millions of people to be successfully treated with replacement hormone and avoid this suffering. Your choice, use their discoveries or be cold, dry, slow and dim.
2016-04-13 00:26:58
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answered by ? 4
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Best way to control thyroid is to take homeopathy and do a lot of exercise so that your weght is always under control. Consult Dr Batras Clinic.They have got clinics thro India.
2006-10-12 05:41:18
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answered by jaggu 2
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Thyroid what? Drugs can alleviate a thyroid condition.
2006-10-09 06:46:57
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answered by MICKEY M 3
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very simple: consult ;MD Physician every few months... and most important start Pranayam by swamy ramdev ji maharaj. i use to take two pills, now i am taking one, because my Dr does not permit to stop that. swamy ji said either pill for life time or Pranayam for lifetime
2006-10-10 06:12:51
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answered by pali@yahoo.com 6
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2015-08-04 14:15:18
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