Hashimoto's thyroiditis is a thyroid disease that endangers human health, and is more common in women aged 30~50. Once sick, many patients are anxious about their daily diet, fearing that improper diet will aggravate the disease. So, should Hashimoto's thyroiditis be avoided?
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Hashimoto's thyroiditis, also known as chronic thyroiditis, is a non-infectious autoimmune disease with unknown etiology, and there are genetic factors that interact with autoimmune factors. Patients typically present with symptoms of malaise.
Weihai City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of the Second Department of Surgery (Two Glandular Surgery) attending physician Gao Feng introduced, this disease must not panic, the five items of thyroid function include two antibodies, peroxidase antibody and globulin antibody, these two indicators can sometimes be frighteningly high, 1,2000 patients have, if the other three are normal, even if the last two are high, do not care too much.
In the early stages of Hashimoto's thyroiditis, no symptoms may appear, and a small number of patients may develop transient hyperthyroidism. However, advanced Hashimoto's thyroiditis is characterized by hypothyroidism.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is self-defeating, it will have a destruction of normal thyroid tissue, and its own destruction will become more and more severe, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will eventually become a state of hypothyroidism.
Before the development of hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, there is no symptomatic treatment for Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and patients can try traditional Chinese medicine to control or slow down the progression of the disease.
The diet must be controlled, to have a low iodine diet, do not eat some seafood extracted things, such as oyster sauce or seafood soy sauce, including seafood are avoided, if the iodine intake is too much, it may aggravate the destruction of the thyroid gland.