You will need to completely change your lifestyle and medications to treat thyroid during pregnancy.
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While thyroid problems could be bad for your body during pregnancy as well as affecting your baby, you don t need to make any major changes to your lifestyle and medications. It is important, however, to ensure that you go for regular thyroid hormone checkups as advised by your Endocrinologist. Only thing you should have to remember is the gap between thyroid and food should be half an hour and gap between thyroid medicine and other medicine should be two hours.
Taking thyroid replacement hormone could seriously damage your baby during pregnancy.
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If you suffer from hypothyroidism or the lack of thyroid hormones, thyroid replacement therapy is one of the recommended remedies even if you are pregnant. Thyroid hormones don t damage your baby s development at all. The resultant conditions caused by the lack of the thyroid hormone may be damaging to the fetus instead of the medication.
You don t need be extra careful with thyroid problems once you have given birth.
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After you give birth your thyroid hormone requirement decreases in majority of the cases. There is something called postpartum thyroiditis which affect lady in postpartum period. Hence we need frequent checkup of the thyroid levels.
Why is it important to have a balanced and well functioning thyroid gland during pregnancy?
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Untreated hypothyroidism can lead to multiple pregnancy related complications and affect baby s brain development. Hence we need normal and well functioning thyroid gland during pregnancy.
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