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 gynaecologist. Even if you have a history of thyroid problems, as long as the thyroid hormone levels are in check, you don't need to do anything drastic.
Why is it important to have a balanced and well functioning thyroid gland during pregnancy?
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The primary function of the thyroid gland is to ensure that the metabolism of the body is maintained properly and that all the energy allocation from various sources reaches the intended recipients. The metabolism is supremely important as the supply of nutrients which are vital for the development of the baby will need to be maintained and delivered properly during this time.
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.
Which is the biggest hindrance in diagnosing thyroid disorders during pregnancy?
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The problems with detecting thyroid during pregnancy, especially from the second trimester onwards, are due to the similarity in symptoms with both the conditions. The common symptoms of thyroid problems are fatigue, heat intolerance, increased or irregular heart rate among others. These are the symptoms which are exhibited even during normal pregnancies. Thus you should visit your doctor and get you thyroid levels checked for even the slightest variations in TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) which may signal a thyroid disorder.
You don't need be extra careful with thyroid problems once you have given birth.
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Even after you have given birth, there are a lot of changes your body will still go through and that may also upset thyroid levels. Reversely, there have been cases that after giving birth, thyroid levels have been disturbed resulting in severe blood loss within the first day of childbirth (postpartum hemorrhage). Continued problems may result in anemia (deficiency of red blood cells in the blood) and thus you have to be careful even after giving birth and ensure that hormonal levels remain in control even then.
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