why did people who got their thyroid removed die shortly afterwards?

Answer 1

Thyroid is the gland which secretes thyroxine hormone.

This thyroxine hormone is responsible for body metabolic activity or in word words it regulates the body's internal environment.

Also adrenaline has similar effects but not this much potent as thyroxine.

Also thyroxine acts over our neural tissue to bring changes instantaneously.
Also this is why in thyroxine deficiency the cretinins are formed.

When the thyroid is removed
thyroxine absent from blood which can't regulate body metabolic processs.
So died as soon as the thyroxine reserve of our body gets exhausted.

Answer 2

The thyroid gland's only purpose is to produce thyroid hormones.These hormones affect almost every cell in your body and help control your body’s functions, from your heart rate to how quickly you burn calories. If you have too little thyroid hormone in your blood, your body slows down. This decreased metabolism leads to eventual organ failure and death.

So, if the gland is removed the person must take synthetic thyroid hormones for the rest of their lives or the most basic metabolic processes come to a halt and they will die.

Answer 3

It would help to know more about what you're asking. Thyroidectomy is a fairly common procedure that's pretty darned safe.
There are the anesthesia risks associated with any surgery, of course, and a few things specific to this one. Injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve is a known complication, and it's possible, though only just, to remove all the parathyroid glands as well, by accident, though that would be a real stretch. And of course there's a need for hormone replacement therapy, since thyroxine is necessary for life, and removal or injury of all the parathyroids causes imbalances in calcuim metabolism.

Answer 4

I have no thyroid as it was ablated . without thyroxine I would die. it is the controling hormone in most everything the human body does . without it the metabolism slows down causing sundry conditions and eventually death . the mortality for surgical removal also entails possible parathyroid damage and before ablation with radiation had a mortality rate of around 60% . without thyroid a person can slip into coma .

Answer 5

Let me check, off the top of my head I would say because the parathyroid gland was also accidently cut out, it controls calcium levels in the body.

'Tetany, convulsions, and death quickly followed' when the parathyroid glands were removed without disturbing the thyroid gland.

Thyroid hormone itself stays in the body a long time, so you would not have a quick death from just losing the function of the thyroid gland.

Answer 6

Your thyroid controls a chemical balance in your body, which effect weight gain and loss along with a number of other basic biological things. The common theory is that after surgery the body goes into shock and begins to fight itself, with no middle man there to deal with the issues, it simply fails to do so.

Answer 7

thyroid secretes hormone called as thyroxine that controlles all the major metabolic activities of the body removal of this gland results in loss of the hormone and thus all the metabolic activites stops causing death

Answer 8

The body grinds to a halt without thyroxine.
I have autoimmune hypothyroidism and have to take thyroxine for the rest of my life. Before this condition was discovered in me, I was continuously tired, my joints ached, I was forgetful and had short-term memory difficulties. All I could think of was sleeeeeep. I found it difficult to even lose 1-2lbs of weight.
If I had had NO thyoxine in my body whatsoever, this slowing down would have accelerated until everything would have just shut down slowly and put me into coma....then death.