For most patients, thyroid disease is a lifelong chronic disease, endangering our health.
Once we get sick, we should fully understand the disease and deal with it with a positive attitude, with the goal of improving our quality of life.
Avoid these seven easy-to-make mistakes so that you can better control thyroid diseases.
1. Don’t take the medicine on time and according to the quantity.
In life, many patients cannot take their medicine on time and according to the amount. If you want to take your medicine on time, but you just can’t remember it often?
You can use the mobile phone App to set the time of taking medicine and help you take medicine on time. For example, the [medication reminder] function in Dr. Clove App is a good choice.
Old people always forget to take medicine. What should I do? Teach you a few tricks to help your parents remember to take medicine regularly.
2. Lack of attention to regular reviews
Review is not only to supplement the drugs that are about to be eaten, but also to find adverse drug reactions as early as possible through regular examination, and to adjust the dosage and scheme according to the recent drug efficacy.
Don’t wait until all the medicines are finished and the fire is burning before you think of going to the hospital.
What are the side effects and adverse reactions of drugs? Before taking medicine, you need to know clearly, so that when problems occur, you can find out whether they are caused by drugs in time. In particular, some adverse drug reactions that are easy to ignore may be very serious when symptoms occur!
3. Eat coffee/tea with medicine
Many people like to have a cup of coffee or make a pot of strong tea in the morning, but the caffeine and aminophylline contained in these two drinks have exciting effects, which can aggravate the symptoms of palpitation and irritability of hyperthyroidism patients.
For those who take thyroid hormone replacement therapy such as Youjiale, drinking coffee and tea while taking medicine will also affect the absorption of thyroid drugs, reduce the drug effect and aggravate the symptoms of hypothyroidism.
Some people may also take the medicine directly with coffee and tea, which is of course even more undesirable. In addition, there are also some wrong ways to take the medicine, such as pinching the nose, mixing fruit juice… Do you know how dangerous these methods are?
4. Do not avoid eating
We know that patients with hyperthyroidism need to avoid iodine diet, while patients with hypothyroidism need iodine diet.
In addition to being careful about [iodine] in diet, cruciferous plants and some green leafy vegetables contain certain ingredients that can cause goiter and inhibit thyroxine synthesis. Hypothyroidism patients should eat as little as possible.
Common goiter-causing foods include broccoli, cabbage and cabbage.
5. Hastily select isotope iodine therapy
Some people may hear that hyperthyroidism may relapse, and they want to choose isotope iodine therapy. It is suggested to take antithyroid drugs first to try it, perhaps it will be cured and will not relapse. In addition, there is a possibility that Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is in the hyperthyroidism period, which most of them do not need treatment.
Before finally receiving isotope iodine treatment, you also need to know the possible consequences, complications and precautions of treatment.
6. Treatment [eager for quick success and instant benefits]
The enthusiastic promotion in pharmacies, some results of online searches, pamphlets for treating hyperthyroidism without taking medicine, ancestral secret recipes, etc., all surprise you with the therapeutic effects of publicity.
But what is the real efficacy of these drugs? Often, once sold, they will not be responsible.
7. One size fits all for thyroid nodules
Thyroid nodules are very common. With the application of CT scanning, ultrasound, X-ray and digital imaging, more thyroid nodules have been found without hiding than before.
When thyroid nodules have suspicious characteristics or strongly request diagnosis, doctors will perform acupuncture biopsy on the thyroid gland to assess whether the nodules are malignant.
For benign nodules, regular review is often a better choice than active surgery, but it depends on your own assessment of life.