Thyroid gland disorders and their management| How to do a thyroid examination

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The thyroid gland is a butterfly Thinking…add echo effect a pretty butterfly

In case you are thinking that is me hallucinating then you are wrong. I am talking facts right at you. The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped organ in the neck covering the trachea.

This organ is an endocrine organ that produces a special hormone with a special name that is so hard to remember…(ITS CALLED THE THYROID HORMONE GENIUS)... oh yeah..that’s the name thyroid hormone.

The thyroid hormone reaches every cell of the body because that’s what endocrine hormones do, they circulate through the whole body including the brain and cause changes in the way cells to behave.

The thyroid hormone is like the spinach that Popie takes to save the day except it's for the whole body. If you watched Popie then you know that when people take spinach he becomes active and starts to do all this stuff. When it’s the same for the cell too except the cell doesn’t go around the smoking pipe and try to save girls unless you tell it to.

The thyroid gland makes the cell very active and one of the cell's favourite activities is called metabolism. Where it is instead in making and breaking substances or anabolism or catabolism.

The cell needs the thyroid hormone so it's not slow and dull and lazying about like me. But if you give too much of this hormone to the cell it could become very hardworking and not have any time for itself to rest…like a typical Nigerian.

In this post I am going to be talking about how to spot thyroid disorders, what causes these disorders, the test a doctor may request and the treatment of these disorders as what makes it a very severe case or a mild one.

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In a thyroid disorder, there is either too little or too much of the hormone being secreted. When the thyroid gland produces too little it is called hypothyroidism and when the body produces too much it is called hyperthyroidism.

In the normal human body, the hormone is produced in the right amount

HOW DOES THE BODY DO THAT? Do what…DO THAT…Oh you mean to keep the right amount of thyroid hormone in the body without having hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism? WELL IF YOU’RE GOING TO SOUND LIKE A DORK!!

Well, it all starts in the Head, yes you heard me right the head. In the human head or skull there is an organ called the Pituitary gland and besides sounding like a gland for saliva PITUI!! It’s the master gland I’M LEAVING YOUR CLASS YOUR RACIST BIGOT!! No I mean it tells all the other endocrine glands what to do through its secretions.

The pituitary gland secretes the thyroid-stimulating hormone alongside other hormones like growth hormone, prolactin, oxytocin and others that are not important to this topic.

GO ON….

So what this Thyroid stimulating hormone does is go to the thyroid hormone and tell it to secret the thyroid hormones.

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SO THE PITUITARY GLAND SECRETS THE THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE THEN THE THE THYROID GLAND SECRETS THE THYROID HORMONE THEN THE THYROID HORMONE TELLS THE BODY TO METABOLISE.

SO WHAT HAPPENS IF THE THYROID GLAND SECRETS TOO MUCH

The pituitary gland will sense this increase and reduce the thyroid-stimulating hormone synthesis and if it's too little the thyroid gland will increase its secretion because the pituitary gland will sense it and cause it to secrete too much.

symptoms

In hyperthyroidism, the blood in the body increases its metabolism and this will make you feel tired even when you haven’t done much, the heart will go into overdrive, fat stores in the body will get burned out even without exercise or diets and you’ll feel hungry all the time. You will also notice that you feel hot when everyone feels cold

In hypothyroidism the body reduces its metabolism and feels exhausted too, you tend to gain weight and feel cold even when others feel hot

Thyroid disorders can affect anyone but women are more affected than men

You are at more risk of a thyroid disorder if you have a family member with a thyroid disorder, you have diabetes and some other medical condition, you are a woman in your 60s and older or you have had a thyroid disorder before.

Tests

The tests done to know what might be wrong with a person who has the features of thyroid disorder include physical examinations to fee the thyroid gland for abnormalities, blood tests to assess the levels of the hormones of the thyroid gland, imagining tests like ultrasounds to know if there are structural abnormalities in the thyroid gland.

Management and Treatment

Hormone replacement medication may be used for those with hypothyroidism and those that have hyperthyroidism may take medication depending on the cause of the disorder and may require surgical intervention.