What is Hashimota's thyroiditis?
Hashimot's thyroiditis, also called chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, is the first disease to be classified as an immune disorder, Japanese physician Hakar Hashimot, in 1912 in Germany. It is characterized by the destruction of the thyroid gland through its own body immune system. The result is hypothyroidism or insufficient thyroid hormone production, with short periods of hyperthyroidism or overproduction of thyroid hormones.
The causes of Hashimoto's thyroiditis are not well understood, but often there is a genetic component. It affects about one thousand people and is ten to 20 times more common in women. Most patients are 45 and 65 years old.
Hashimoto thyroid causes symptoms associated with other thyroid disorders, including weight gain, convulsions, abdominal cramps, high cholesterol, hypoglycaemia or low blood sugar, stinging skin and colds, weak weakness, reef, abnormally abnormally abnormally rhythm, migraines, loss inLases, infertility, loss of memory, panic attacks and mania. If it is not treated, it can cause muscle failure, including heart failure. Thyroid hormone controls metabolism or pace of all body processes, so the abnormal amount of hormone causes a wide range of problems.
Due to psychological symptoms, Hashimoto's thyroiditis is often incorrectly diagnosed as depression, pre-lamentic syndrome (PMS). This is also sometimes poorly diagnosed as a bipolar or anxiety disorder. Identification of antibodies against thyroid can properly diagnose Hashimoto, thyroiditis.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is treated by replacing the thyroid hormone orally administered with levothyroxine or thyroid extract. In most cases, the patient must maintain treatment for life. It is important to maintain the levels of the thyroid stimulating hormone, which is phenomena the pituitary gland, but controls the thyroid production.The thyroid stimulating hormone should not exceed 3.0 µiu/ml in a patient with hasorian thyroiditis or increased thyroid activity could cause an immune response to madness.