Health: everything about the thyroid gland In the list of the most common endocrine diseases, thyroid diseases rank second after diabetes mellitus.
Taking care of your health, everything about the thyroid gland, or at least the most important, everyone should know.

The thyroid gland plays a very important role in maintaining normal vital activity and the proper functioning of the body. It produces hormones that regulate metabolism and affect absolutely all aspects of human life, including its appearance and mood.

It's sad that with the close attention of modern medicine to the thyroid gland and serious successes in the treatment and prevention of diseases, the number of patients does not decrease. This is because people often turn to a doctor with their complaints only when the manifestations of the disease become too obvious and cause serious discomfort.

Therefore, take care of your thyroid gland, timely, in the early stages of recognizing the disease, in time to see a doctor - it's so important.

Early symptoms of thyroid diseases

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are not related to the place where the gland itself is located. Expressed goiter on the neck is no longer in doubt, but by the time it becomes visible, the disease has already developed and time is lost. So, for treatment it will take more time and effort.


Symptoms.

And the first symptoms, which can indicate problems in her health, about the thyroid can only be remotely recalled. And to know them is absolutely necessary. It can be like drowsiness and fatigue, and irritability, nervousness, hyperactivity. Bad mood is often associated with temporary depression, because of which it is not necessary to consult a doctor. In fact, these are the first signs that say that everything is OK in the thyroid gland. And it is better to pay attention to it in time, until the disease has acquired a more severe form.

All about thyroid gland is difficult to tell in a nutshell, but a general idea about it is necessary to have. The gland itself is a small organ with an adult mass of 30-40 grams, and the size of each lobe is 4x2 cm( length and thickness).It is located in the neck, slightly below the larynx. The name of the thyroid gland has got the cartilage of the larynx, which has a thyroid form. The very same gland is more like a butterfly and consists of two parts, which are joined together by an isthmus.

The inner surface of the gland, one that covers the trachea and larynx, concave, and the outer - convex. Thyroid tissue is a set of lobules that are formed from a variety of vesicles - follicles. The follicles are filled with a viscous mass - a colloid containing bioactive substances. Among them, the main thing is iodine-containing protein thyroglobulin. In the thyroid gland hormones are produced, which then enter the blood. This is thyroxine, triiodothyronine and thyrecalcitonin.

Thyroid gland is permeated with blood vessels. Blood on these vessels flows at a very high rate( blood flow velocity in them is 100 times greater than in the vessels of the legs, and 28 times higher than the velocity of blood flow in the vessels of the brain).For a minute, every gram of thyroid tissue passes through itself 5, 5 liters of blood! Due to this feature, the hormones produced by the gland quickly arrive at the destination, and the gland itself gets everything it needs, and above all, iodine.

The child has fully formed the thyroid gland by the 8th-9th month of intrauterine development. Even earlier, in the fifth week, hormones are already beginning to be produced in the thyroid gland. Her weight to the first year of the child's life doubles, and during puberty increases by 20 times.

Children are very important in time to detect a violation of the thyroid gland, because the inadequate production of hormones in a child can cause mental development disorders, body proportions, and during puberty, even more serious problems may arise.

Diagnostics.

Diagnosis of diseases associated with disruption of the thyroid gland, at present, does not cause problems. An experienced expert can tell you everything about your health by appearance. The doctor will pay attention to the condition of hair and skin, eye shine and complexion, behavior( for example, retardation or fussiness) - will also tell a lot about the specialist. Also of great importance is the detailed conversation between the doctor and the patient.

After that, naturally, tests and additional examinations are appointed( traditionally - this is primarily an ultrasound and a blood test).They will clarify the diagnosis and determine the stage of the disease. Then the doctor is prescribed treatment or a decision is made about the surgical intervention, if necessary.

The correct choice of preparations and their dosage is of great importance, and it is also necessary to take into account the state of health of all organs and systems and to conduct treatment in a complex.

The most well-known and common disease of the pancreas is Graves' disease or diffuse toxic goiter. Many people have an idea of ​​this from school textbooks with photographs of sick people, whose facial features have acquired characteristic features and have changed beyond recognition. Eyes are bulging, goiter on the neck - the picture is not the most pleasant. In the Middle Ages, no one thought about the treatment of such people, they were simply sent to a fire.

Later, before the advent of hormone therapy, the only treatment was considered to be the surgical removal of part of the gland. Now this method is used only in the most extreme cases, carrying out hormonal treatment, which in most cases is effective.

Often, having a very superficial understanding of the thyroid gland, and, especially, of the treatment, knowing only that all this is somehow connected with iodine, people begin to engage in self-medication. They begin to eat a large amount of sea kale, and some take even ordinary iodine. This can not be done in any case, because thyroid diseases can be associated not only with iodine deficiency, increased iodine content in the body can also lead to serious problems.

Do not self-medicate. Only a qualified endocrinologist can correctly diagnose, pick up the necessary drugs and subsequently monitor the effectiveness of the treatment.