What to do if your thyroid gland is thickened

The thyroid gland is a tissue located on our chin. This tissue is very important to our human body, but it often causes many problems, including thyroid thickening. This situation should be taken seriously, but it can be treated in many ways. So what should we do if the thyroid gland is thickened?

Self-treatment: Regardless of the type of thyroid disease, patients need to supplement iodine. They can eat more iodine-rich foods, such as seafood, kelp, seaweed, etc. While supplementing iodine, patients also need to pay more attention to daily exercise and have a positive and optimistic attitude. At the same time, they must also control their emotions, not be irritable, and not lose their temper easily.

Surgical therapy: There are drug therapy, instrument therapy, drug plus instrument therapy, and surgical therapy in the treatment of thyroid diseases. Among them, surgical therapy has the least harm. It can treat thyroid diseases and is less likely to recur after treatment, and it is effective quickly. However, scars may be left after the operation, and it is also easy to cause other complications, and the probability is relatively high.

Diet therapy: Patients with enlarged thyroid gland should pay special attention to their diet, because hyperthyroidism can cause the body's metabolism to be too rapid and consume more energy. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement vitamins, proteins and calories in time to maintain the normal functioning of the body. At the same time, you should also avoid eating or drinking stimulating foods or beverages, such as tobacco, alcohol, coffee, etc.

External application therapy : Patients with thyroid enlargement can use some heat-clearing and detoxifying, blood-activating and blood-stasis-dispersing foods or Chinese herbal medicines to apply externally to the lesion site according to their own conditions, thereby reducing the swelling to a certain extent and alleviating the patient's condition.

An enlarged thyroid gland is not only a sign of a worsening disease, it also affects the patient's appearance. So we all hope that we can recover as soon as possible, so that we don’t have to be so self-deprecating or even afraid to go out and see people. We can have a general understanding of the above treatment methods, and then treat them seriously to get rid of them as soon as possible.