About the Thyroid

What Should I Care About My Thyroid?

Your thyroid is a bow tie shaped endocrine gland located directly below the larynx in the neck. It weighs less than an ounce and the hormones that separates them is essential to every cell and organ in your body. The hormones that help produce the thyroid gland, regulates body temperature and keep making energy.

The classification of goiter (using the Kilpatrik scale). There are 5 types of goiter. They are based on the ability to see the goiter, or the ability toto palpate it.

1. Level 0 - the crop is not visible, extended to the next, and it is not palpable.
2. Class 1 - the crop is not visible, but noticeable.
3. Class 2 - the crop is visible when the next one will be extended and if you swallow.
4. Grade 3 - the crop is visible in all positions.
5. Stage 4 - a large goiter

Who Gets thyroid disease? Risk Factors.

It is estimated that 10% of Americans have thyroid disease. Many people do not know they have this disease. You can be one of them. The following risk factors include thyroid disease.

• And women are 6 to 8 times more frequently than men.
• Since the age of 50
• a history of autoimmune disease suffer
• You have a family of thyroid disease
• Each operation in the neck
• The risk of suffering from an autoimmune disease increases during pregnancy and in the first year after birth.
• Smoking increases the risk.
• Excess (or> Deficiency) iodine
• Certain drugs, herbs and drugs
• Certain foods (broccoli, cabbage, radish and others)
• radiation, the neck (can receive treatment for cancer or accidental exposure, such as after the Chernobyl accident in 1986, belong).

The Right Way to Take Your Thyroid Medications

1. Take your thyroid medication on an empty stomach.
2. You can find these pills for the rest of your life to take, so do not be let to expire. Fill yourRecipe early.
3. Take it at the same time every day.
4. Store your tablets in their original packaging bottle and holds it firmly closed to keep.
5. Store your tablets in a cool place (below 80 degrees Fahrenheit).
6. Never store your pills in the bathroom or kitchen. Both areas are too warm and humid. The best place to store them in your bedroom.
7. Keep Keep all medications out of reach of children.
8. Never take your pill with milk or soy milk.
9. Never try to take your pillwithout liquid (water is probably best). Drink at least 8 ounces of liquid with your pill. These pills have a tendency to stick in the throat with a little liquid.
10. If you have trouble swallowing your pill you can break it and eat with a very small amount of applesauce.
11. Another option if you have trouble swallowing your pill is to chew your pill. Thyroid pills have very little taste.
12. Many other prescription drugs interfere with the absorption of your thyroidMedications. Take your thyroid medication for at least four hours either before or after any other prescription drugs. (this includes multi-vitamins and minerals and vitamins before birth.)

Call your doctor if

If you have a thyroid medication, you should know when you are taking your doctor. It is important to know the signs / symptoms that are important.

Call your doctor if:

1. They develop confusion.
2. Your heart beats too fast, too hard or feels likeIt is out of rhythm.
3. You have shortness of breath
4. You think your blood sugar level is too low (tremor, fatigue or sweating)
5. You lose weight without trying to
6. You have diarrhea without compensation by anti-diarrhea medication
7. You have nausea without compensation by medications for nausea.