Know More About Thyroid Disorders

A big Hi to everybody. I am Dr Hardik Thakker. Today I take this opportunity to speak about Thyroid Disorders.

As we know Thyroid disorders are very common among the Indian population. They are so more common in the female population. So, today I will mainly speak about the two types of thyroid disorders.

• Hypothyroidism:  This is the most common kind of thyroid disorder. It is more commonly seen in females. It is the condition wherein thyroid is not produced in enough amount in the body. The most common cause is the Autoimmune hypothyroidism. Because the body does not produce enough amount of thyroid so you may have some complaints such as weight gain, irregular menstrual periods, laziness and so on.

So what we do in such a situation is, we correct the TSH level by supplementing Exogenous thyroid hormone. That will take care of the symptoms of the patients and the weight will also come back to normal. Constipation which we generally see in old age is somewhere related to Hypothyroidism. And we should be checking the thyroid level in old patients who always complain about constipation.

• Hyperthyroidism:  This is the second most common thyroid disorder, which is called as grave's disease. In this case, the thyroid is being produced in an excess amount in the body by the thyroid glands. This causes problems such as anxiety, Palpitations, High BP, irregular menstrual periods, Insomnia, weight loss and so on. The damage to thyroid glands is by the autoimmune antibody, which is thyroid receptor antibody. This is causing such problems.

The treatment to such problems is to get down the thyroid hormone production in the body. So we give some medication which helps down the thyroid production in the body and also takes care of the symptoms for hyperthyroidism.

For more details about the thyroid disorders, you can reach me on my Lybrate profile through www.lybrate.com or my personal website through www.hardikthakker.com.

Thank you very much.