Symptoms and harm of hypothyroidism

Update Date: 2025-10-26 Source: Network

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A professor of thyroid medicine said that the biggest harm of hypothyroidism is that it will lead to a pregnant woman not to conceive or abortion, resulting in children's physical and mental development, short stature and mental retardation. If it is not cured for a long time, it will have a great impact on the child's life. If hypothyroidism is not treated in time, it will affect people's endocrine system, lead to irregular menstruation, patients will feel memory loss, mental decline, slow reaction, often feel sleepy, bad spirit, serious may lead to schizophrenia, and even some may lead to cancer.

Symptoms and harm of hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism patients with muscle function problems, showing muscle pain, weakness and other symptoms, but also affect people's gastrointestinal function, dyspepsia, less gastric acid secretion, loss of appetite, defecation difficulties are possible symptoms. And hypothyroidism patients will be depressed, depressed, in a bad mood.

Hypothyroidism patients will affect sexual ability and fertility, for female patients will appear menstrual period lasts for a long time, some will be amenorrhea, will not be pregnant, some even pregnant may also miscarry, or give birth to a child with hypothyroidism is also very likely, hypothyroidism will be inherited, so it is best for women to cure the pregnancy.

If children get hypothyroidism, it will lead to mental retardation, poor physical development, memory loss, short stature, and even dementia, because thyroid hormone can promote growth hormone, hypothyroidism lack of thyroid hormone, it will inhibit growth hormone, children's growth will slow down, adolescent patients with growth delay, some will precocious.

matters needing attention

Hypothyroidism does great harm to people. It not only affects people's body and health, but also affects people's spirit and psychology. It causes mental retardation, memory loss, and even depression, silence and autism. So we should treat it in time, otherwise it will aggravate the disease.