Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is the most common type of thyroid health problem. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease. It occurs when our body makes antibodies that attack the cells in our own thyroid. The thyroid then can’t make enough of the thyroid hormone. Many patients with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis have an underactive thyroid gland. That’s also known as hypothyroidism.
Risk factors for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Things that may make it more likely to a person for to get Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are:
- Being a woman. Women are about 7 times more likely to have the Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, sometimes begins during pregnancy.
- Middle age. Most cases happen between 40 to 60 years of age. But it has been seen in younger people.
- The disease tends to run in families. But no gene has been found that carries it.
- Autoimmune diseases. These health problems raise a person’s risk. Some examples are rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. Having this type of thyroiditis puts you at higher risk for other autoimmune illnesses.
Symptoms of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Each person’s symptoms may vary. Symptoms of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis may include:
Goiter
Goiter is an enlargement of thyroid gland. It is not cancer, but it can cause problems like pain or trouble with swallowing, breathing or speaking.
Hypothyroidism or Underactive thyroid
When our thyroid doesn’t make enough thyroid hormone, it can cause these symptoms:
- Tiredness.
- Muscle weakness.
- Weight gain.
- Being cold bothers you.
- Depression.
- Hair and skin changes.
Hyperthyroidism or Overactive thyroid
When the thyroid is attacked by antibodies, it may at first make more thyroid hormone. This is called Hashi toxicosis. It does not happen to everyone. But it can cause these symptoms:
These symptoms may look like other health problems, differentiate from other diseases is very important for best treatment results, said Dr Qaisar Ahmed.
Diagnosis of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
A physical exam, and blood tests to measure patient’s thyroid hormone levels and check for some antibodies to proteins in the thyroid.
Allopathic treatment for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
A good healthcare provider will figure out the best treatment for his Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis patient based on:
- Patient’s age, overall health, and medical history.
- Stage and severity.
- How well patient can handle certain medicines, treatments, or therapies (because of too many side effects).
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis often looks like an underactive thyroid gland. The medicine replaces lost thyroid hormone. That should stop patient’s symptoms and goiter (but remember the abnormality is still persist and could be damage patient’s overall health).
Hypothyroidism associated with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is treated with a synthetic hormone called levothyroxine (T4 hormone replacement therapy) or sometimes combination of T3 and T4 (Cytomel). The treatment goal is to restore and maintain adequate T4 hormone levels and improve symptoms of hypothyroidism. Patient will need this allopathic treatment for the rest of life.
Side effects of T3 hormone replacement include rapid heartbeat, insomnia and anxiety.
These treatments may be tested with a trial period of 3 to 6 months.
T3 and T4 hormones derived from pigs or other animals are available as prescriptions or as dietary supplements, such as Armour Thyroid. Concerns about these products include the following:
- The balance of T4 and T3 in animals isn’t the same as in humans.
- The exact amount of T4 and T3 in each batch of a natural extract product can vary, leading to unpredictable levels of these hormones in patient’s blood.
Precautions and side effects
Too much thyroid hormone can worsen bone loss that causes weak, brittle bones (osteoporosis) or cause irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias).
Effects of other substances
Certain allopathic medications, supplements and foods may affect one’s ability to absorb levothyroxine. It may be necessary to take levothyroxine at least four hours before these substances for example:
- Soy products.
- High-fiber foods.
- Allopathic iron supplements (multivitamins that contain iron and/or ferrous).
- Cholestyramine (an allopathic medication used to lower blood cholesterol levels).
- Aluminum hydroxide, which is found in many antacids and in allopathic supplements.
- Sucralfate (an allopathic ulcer medicine).
- Calcium supplements.
Say your patient to immediate contact if there is/are any of his/her symptoms get worse or have new symptoms.
Homeopathic treatment for Thyroid diseases
Thyroid and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis are completely treatable with Homeopathic medicines, treatment duration is 30-90 days (individual) said Dr Qaisar Ahmed.
First of all, Controle/treat the thyroid which is the basic cause of all other problems. The second aim of Homeopathic treatment is to address thyroid’s underlying cause and individual susceptibility.
Here are few of Homeopathic medicines best for thyroid and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis :
Thyroidinum
Anaemia, emaciation, muscular weakness, sweating, headache, nervous tremor of face and limbs, tingling sensations, paralysis. Heart rate increased, exophthalmos and dilation of pupils. In myxedema and cretinism its effects are striking. Rheumatoid arthritis. Infantile wasting. Rickets. Delayed union of fractures. In half grain doses twice a day over a considerable period said to be effective in undescended testicle in boys. Thyroid exercises a general regulating influence over the mechanism of the organs of nutrition, growth and development. Thyroid weakness causes decided craving for large number of sweets. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.
Skin diseases like psoriasis. Tachycardia. Arrested development in children. Memory weakness. Goiter. Excessive obesity. Amblyopia. Mammary tumor. Uterine fibroid. Great weakness and hunger yet loses flesh. Nocturnal enuresis. Agalactia. Vomiting of pregnancy (give early in morning before patient gets up). Fibroid breast tumors. Sensation of faintness and nausea.
Marked sensitiveness to cold. Hypothyroidism after acute diseases, i.e, weakness. Easy fatigue, weak pulse, tendency to fainting, palpitation, cold hands and feet, low blood pressure, chilliness and sensitive to cold. Has a powerful diuretic action in myxedema and various types of edema.
Sepia Officinalis
Sepia Officianalis acts especially on the portal system, with venous congestion. Stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera and weariness and misery. Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect. Pains extend down to back, chills easily. Tendency to abortion. Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration. Thyroid. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Upward tendency of its symptoms. Easy fainting. “Ball” sensation in inner parts. All pains are from below up. One of the most important uterine remedies. Tubercular patients with chronic hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes. Feels cold even in warm room. Pulsating headache in cerebellum. Dyspnea. Hypostatic pleuritis. Violent, intermittent palpitation. Beating in all arteries. Tremulous feeling with flushes.
Calcarea Carbonica
The chief action is centered in the vegetative sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones. Increased local and general perspiration, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions. Incipient phthisis. Tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity. Gets out of breath easily. A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses. Pituitary and thyroid dysfunction. Goiter. Parotid fistula. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Thyroid. Goiter.
Natrum Muriaticum
Intermittent fever. Anemia. Chlorosis. Disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin. Severe debility; morning sickness. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck. Great liability to take cold. Shortness of breath. Dry mucous membranes. Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Severe weakness and weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Thyroid. Goiter. Addison’s disease. Diabetes. Indigestion. Liver diseases. Impotency. Vagainal dryness. Uterine prolapsus. PCOs & PCODs. Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and chest feel constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart’s pulsations shake body. Skin greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, eczema, ulcers, alopecia etc. Coldness of the body.
Lycopodium Clavatum
Ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with eating disorders and indigestion, liver weakness. Atony. Malnutrition. Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons. Yellowish spots on skin, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc. Precocious weakly children. Weak muscular power. Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Carcinoma. Emaciation. Debility in morning. Marked regulating influence upon the glandular (sebaceous) secretions. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Thyroid diseases. Goiter. Pre-senility. Ascites – in liver disease. Lycop patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities. Pains come and go suddenly. Sensitive to noise and odors. Tickling cough. Dyspnea.
Impotence. Premature emission. Enlarged prostate. Condylomas.
Menses too late; last too long, too profuse. Vagina dry. Coition painful. Ovarian pain. Varicose veins of pudenda. Leucorrhea, acrid, with burning in vagina. Discharge of blood from genitals during stool.
Graphites
Fatty, chilly, and costive patients with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders. Tendency to erysipelas. Anemia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhea. Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue. Induration of tissue. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer. ENT infections and/or dryness. Indigestion. Liver diseases. Spasmodic asthma. Lumbalgia. Extremities pains. Dry skin, eczema, pimples, ulcers etc.
Iodium
Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great appetite. Hungry with much thirst. Better after eating. Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration. Iod individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin. Tubercular type. Thyroid enlarged. Goiter, with sensation of constriction. Swollen submaxillary glands. Uvula swollen.
All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are affected – atrophic. Iodine arouses the immune system by assembling the mononuclear leukocytes whose phagocytic action is marked. Tremor. Iodine craves cold air. Glands enlarged. Nodosities. Hungry and eating well. Internal dry heat, external coldness. Violent heart action. Myocarditis, painful compression around heart. Anasarca of cardiac disease. Pneumonia. Liver and spleen sore and enlarged. Jaundice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. Cutting pain in abdomen.
Testicles swollen and indurated. Hydrocele. Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes.
Severe weakness during menses. Menstruation irregular. Uterine hemorrhage. Ovaritis. Wedge-like pain from ovary to uterus. Dwindling of mammary glands. Nodosities in breast skin. Acrid leucorrhoea, thick, slimy, corroding the linen. Wedge-like pain in ovarian region.
Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation. Arthritis deformans. Acts prominently on connective tissue. The plague. Goiter. Abnormal vasoconstriction, capillary congestion followed by oedema, ecchymosis, hemorrhages, and nutritive disturbances. Sluggish vital reaction, hence, chronicity in many of its aspects. Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes, rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite, and glandular atrophy, in numerous wasting diseases and in scrofulous patients. Acute affections of the respiratory organs. Pneumonia, rapid extension. Iodine patient wants cool surroundings. Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs. Adenoid vegetations.
Tincture internally and locally to swollen glands and rattlesnake bites.
Baryta Carbonica
Scrofulous patients, Kids who are backward – mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop, have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then always have swollen tonsils. Quinsy which is prone to suppurate; gums bleed easily. Diseases of old men when degenerative changes begin – cardiac vascular and cerebral – who have hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes, very sensitive to cold, offensive foot-sweats, very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something. Weak and diseased muscular coats of heart and vessels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood-vessels soften and degenerate, become distended, and aneurysms, ruptures, and apoplexies result. Palpitation and distress in region of heart. Vertigo and stitches, when standing in the sun. Hair fall. Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Glands around ears painful and swollen. Indigestion. Enlarged mesenteric glands.
Dyspepsia of the young who have masturbated and suffer from seminal emissions, together with cardiac irritability and palpitation. Affects glandular structures, and useful in general degenerative changes, especially in coats of arteries, aneurysm, and senility. Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged prostate. Testicles indurated.
Swollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised pain between scapulae. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine. Pain in axillary glands. Cold, clammy feet. Fetid foot-sweats. Numbness of limbs. Numb feeling from knees to scrotum; disappears when sitting down. Toes and soles sore; soles painful when walking. Pain in joints; burning pains in lower limbs.
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Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.
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