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Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT Medical Specialty): What are the treatments available for thyroid in India? Which one is the best? Does having Thyroid in female cause infertility?

  • Someone please answer this question with details. Is thyroid disease very dangerous and not curable? I also heard that, women with thyroid problem don't get pregnant. Is there actually any correlation between thyroid disease and pregnancy? Thanks.

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First of all, you should ask your doctor these questions and discuss your problem with him/her.  Your question unclear, no answers can be given. Let me try:  I think you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroid_gland disease. There are many thyroidal diseases, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroid_cancers are quite rare, mostly we see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthyroidism, that is the thyroid gland working too hard, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothyroidism the thyroid gland either not working or working too slow. Both too fast and too slow functioning of the thyroid gland do indeed hinder women getting pregnant, and are often diagnosed when a woman having problems conceiving visits a doctor. Usually they are not life threatening. Hyperthyroidism: only if the levels of thyroid hormone are very, very high, we call a  http://www.emedicinehealth.com/thyroid_storm/article_em.htm the condition is life threatening, but as a physician consultant specialist I haven't seen a case in all the 40 years I was working as a doctor. Normally it is treated with drugs for at least one year, after which in 2/3 of the cases the drugs can be stopped.  If not, or it reccurs shortly after, one usually is treated with radioactive Iodine123, or in rare cases an operation we call a subtotal  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroidectomy.  after which one needs to have a yearly follow-up blood test or earlier when symptoms recur.  Usually managed by a specialist doctor, either internist or endocrinologist. Hypothyroidism: only if the thyroid hormone levels are extremely low a http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Myxoedema-Coma.htm develops, it can be life threatening, and needs to be treated immediately in a hospital, preferably on the intensive care unit, but this is also extremely rare, never have seen one in my 40 years of clinical practice. usually due to an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_thyroiditis so the thyroid is damaged, and one needs to take thyroid hormone supplementation life long.  Much easier to manage, once the dose of thyroid hormone one needs is found the family doctor can manage. EDIT: some stats from India: From http://www.ijem.in/article.asp?issn=2230-8210&year=2011&volume=15&issue=6&spage=78&epage=81&aulast=Unnikrishnan: ...overt hyperthyroidism was .... present in 1.3% of subjects participating in a community survey. ...population-based study done in Cochin on 971 adult subjects, the prevalence of hypothyroidism was 3.9%. The age-adjusted incidence rates of thyroid cancer per 100,000 are about  1 for males and 1.8 for females as per the Mumbai Cancer Registry,  which covered a population of 9.81 million subjects. So according to this paper, in India: hyperthyroidism 1,3% = 1.300 per 100.000 hypothyroidism  3,9% = 3.900 per 100.000 thyroid cancer in         males 1 per 100.000                         in   females 1,8 per 100.000

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