Lose weight; Fear of sweating, individual patients with low fever; Palpitation, tachycardia, insomnia, emotional irritability and even anxiety.

Other symptoms

Symptoms such as exophthalmos, eyelid edema and decreased vision often occur at the same time. If you don't receive proper treatment for a long time, it will cause hyperthyroidism heart disease.

Diagnostic basis

1. Clinical manifestations: palpitation, hyperhidrosis, increased eating and defecation, weight loss;

2. Thyroid function examination: T3, T4, FT3, FT4 increased, accompanied by TSH decreased, which may indicate hyperthyroidism.

Treatment policy

Anti-hyperthyroidism treatment is mainly aimed at hyperthyroidism patients to improve symptoms and reduce complications.

medicine

There are two kinds of antithyroid drugs-imidazole and thiouracil, and the representative drugs are methimazole and propylthiouracil respectively.

Surgical therapy

Surgical treatment is suitable for patients with obvious goiter, or highly suspected thyroid malignant tumor, or patients with goiter who have difficulty breathing due to compression of trachea.

Other treatments

Radioactive iodine is suitable for patients with moderate goiter or hyperthyroidism recurrence, and is an absolute contraindication for pregnant women and lactating women, and is not suitable for hyperthyroidism patients with thyroid eye disease.

Forecast situation

The postoperative recurrence of this disease is mostly in the period of 1 ~ 5 years after operation, and most of them are young patients, and they are treated again after operation.

Daily nursing

1. Pay attention to rest. If you don't sleep well, you can take drugs to improve your sleep;

2. Patients with exophthalmos should have a low-salt diet or be supplemented with diuretics to reduce eye edema, and wear sunglasses to prevent glare when going out.

Diet regulation

Eat more foods with high calorie, high protein and high vitamins, such as meat, eggs, beans and various fresh vegetables. Foods with high iodine content such as kelp, laver, marine fish, sea cucumber and shrimp skin should be avoided.

preventive measure

1. Eat a balanced diet, eat more fruits and vegetables and supplement vitamins.

Keep an optimistic attitude and don't put too much pressure on yourself.

3. Stick to regular work and rest, get up early and go to bed early, and don't stay up late.

4. Don't eat food with high iodine content.

5. Quit smoking and drinking, and don't drink strong tea or coffee.

6. Don't let yourself be extremely busy and under high pressure for a long time.