Disease thyroid

Disease Thyroid Symptoms: As with any other human body organs, there are some diseases associated with the thyroid gland too. These diseases can be due to abnormal functioning of thyroid glands. The glands can be over active (Hyperthyroidism) in some cases and in some other cases they may be under active (Hypothyroidism). According to some surveys every 50th person is affected in some way by the thyroid disorders. The common disorders associated with thyroid malfunctioning are classified under two broad categories Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism. There can be some symptoms to look for which can help in early diagnosis of thyroid disease. Those symptoms have been mentioned in the following sections.

Thyroid Disease and Bulging Eyes: Graves Disease, also known as Graves Basedow’s disease is an auto immune disease which is symptomatically detected by feature of goiter and hyper-thyroidism. The persons also show the symptoms of protruding or swollen eyes in such cases. Many organs are affected by this anomaly. There are a number of organ specific symptoms which can be helpful in detecting and proper diagnosis of the disease. In Heart, major Symptoms are Cardiac arrhythmias or arterial fibrillation, increased heart rate, Widened difference in systolic and diastolic Blood Pressures, collapsing of the person’s pulse etc. In Opthamological (related to eyes) case, there are Bulging of one or both eyes, retractions of eyelids, dryness of eyes (due to contractions of the eyelids) etc. There have been considerable reported cases of dermatological side effects of thyroid related hormonal disorders leading to problems like profuse sweating and hair loss. This might be possible due to the reason that when the body thinks it is in crisis it may direct the hair follicle cells to shut down and redirect the hence saved energy and vital resources to other needy areas. Hormonal imbalance due to poor diet nutritional deficiencies and some medications, surgeries and medical conditions may contribute to this problem.

Autoimmune Thyroid Disease: Named after a famous Japanese physician, Hakaru Hashimoto, Autoimmune thyroid disease is a disease in which a person’s protective antibodies fail to recognize the thyroid Cells and try to kill them as if they were some sort of external infection. The symptoms of this disease include goiter and hypothyroidism. Even in North America Hashimotos is the most common type of hypothyroidism afflicting women eight times more than men. There is revealing evidence that some genetic disorganization (HLADR5 gene) is responsible for such type of failure of body’s protective mechanism to differentiate between the friend and the foes. This causes gradual and sometimes acute destruction of the endocrine follicles leading to hormonal imbalance.

Diabetes and Thyroid Disease: Research has shown that the persons who are having one autoimmune disorder are in the high risk group of people who can contract some other autoimmune disorder. Diabetes is one of such outcome which is the failure of the cells of pancreas to function properly. And reverse is also true. The persons suffering from type-1 diabetes can be 30% more prone to thyroid disease than normal persons.