Hashimoto’s Disease, also known as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Autoimmune Hypothyroiditis, and Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis, is a chronic autoimmune illness wherein the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the thyroid gland. This attack upon the thyroid gland causes the body to be deficient in thyroid hormones, a condition called “hypothyroidism.” Hypothyroidism causes a variety of troubling symptoms, and ...
One of the most heard medical problems is the thyroid problem. So, what are the causes of thyroid problems? Causes for thyroid problems can range from simple nutritional imbalance to very complicated factors that are intrinsically connected with the biological functioning of thyroid. Thus, before we go into the causes of problems, it would be ...
Did your doctor say you have a low TSH level? A TSH level is measured by drawing a tube of blood and sending it to the lab where the level of TSH in the blood can be quantified. What does a low TSH level mean? What is TSH? TSH is a hormone produced by the ...
We all have heard the talk about the thyroid and we know that if it is not functioning correctly we can feel pretty bad. But do you really know why we have a thyroid, what its function is and how to tell if something can be wrong with it? Most people don’t. The thyroid is ...
