Doctor reminds: "Pressure mountain" crowd pay attention to prevent "emotional disease"

Heilongjiang Channel, December 16 (Xinhua) -- On December 15, Nie Chunlei, deputy director of the Department of Thyroid Surgery at the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Harbin Medical University, led a medical team to successfully remove a 6.0×3.6 cm giant thyroid nodule the size of a goose egg for a 49-year-old male patient.

Nie Chunlei introduced that in addition to radiation, genetics, diet and other factors, thyroid nodules are more "emotional diseases", and the causes mostly come from negative emotions such as anxiety and irritability of patients, which used to occur more in middle-aged and elderly women, while the number of male patients has increased rapidly in recent years.

Nie Chunlei said that this situation is that the pace of life is fast, many middle-aged and young people are under great pressure in life, and their bodies are in a state of stress for a long time; second, many people "do not separate families from tobacco and alcohol, stay up late and barbecue", and have an unhealthy lifestyle, thus increasing the incidence of this disease.

It is understood that because the onset of thyroid nodules is not painful or itchy, most patients have no feelings. In this case, the giant nodule has hollowed out the left lobe of the thyroid gland, so it had to remove half of the thyroid gland together. If knot energy is found and disposed of at a small size, the damage to the body will be much smaller.

Experts suggest that people over 30 years old who feel high self-pressure should undergo thyroid ultrasound examination regularly, if more than 3cm nodules are found to be closely observed, nodules above 4cm accompanied by pressure discomfort can be considered as early as possible surgical treatment, the presence of long-term thyroid giant mass will have a certain probability of malignancy.

Source: Xinhua News Agency client Heilongjiang Channel