Symptoms of hyperthyroidism are characteristics that allows the doctor to have on the basis of one survey to suspect an increased content of thyroid hormones in the blood. But in order to prescribe the correct treatment is adequate, it is necessary to know which body was the cause of the disease. The action of thyroid hormones on the human body manifests itself in the acceleration of metabolic processes, which entails a number of changes in the organs and systems of the whole organism.

Symptoms of hyperthyroidism

Symptoms of hyperthyroidism usually grow slowly. The first signs of hyperthyroidism - a sign of the central nervous system: sleep disorders, growing, sometimes uncontrollable irritability, a feeling of constant anxiety, painful anxiety, fear, and sometimes for no reason. Then join a violation on the part of the autonomic nervous system (which supplies the organs and blood vessels) - trembling of the limbs, turning into a shiver throughout the body, a small rise in temperature, flushing, alternating high and low blood pressure, sweating.

With constant exposure to large amounts of thyroid hormones on the autonomic nervous system in patients with typical symptoms of hyperthyroidism appear: bright feverish eyes shine, rare nictitating movement, his eyes wide with protruding eyeballs (exophthalmos). After the eyes are closed, part of the eyeball, as a strip, remains closed. Characteristic symptoms such as watery eyes, a feeling of mote in the eye, decreased visual acuity, diplopia.

Heart patients with thyrotoxicosis

Since accelerated metabolism requires large amounts of oxygen, the heart muscle has to "seek full": the heart rate increases, sometimes very significantly - worried sick constant palpitation (tachycardia) .  Tachycardia such patients detected constantly, even during sleep .  Heart at elevated levels of thyroid hormones in the blood is called - cardiothyrotoxicosis .  It works with the congestion that often, especially in the elderly, there are cardiac arrhythmias, up to very strong (for example, atrial fibrillation) .  Tachycardia in thyrotoxicosis is not reduced even when receiving drugs that relieve it in any other cases - cardiac glycosides when administered without recent drugs that reduce the production of thyroid hormones .  When thyrotoxicosis can be confusing and angina (short stabbing attacks or compressive heartache), arising from coronary artery spasm .  An electrocardiogram recorded right ventricular failure (heart failure pulmonary type) .

With working hard, and all other organs of the patient: the lungs must breathe more likely that the blood gets more oxygen, the liver to process a large number of products of metabolism, kidney - to display these products, and the central nervous system suffers from overexcitement.

Metabolism and hyperthyroidism

Rapid metabolism and require more energy (i.e., carbohydrates, fats and proteins), then eat a lot of patients, but it does not recover, but rather, losing weight. In some cases, there are exceptions to this rule - patients gain weight due to fat metabolism disorders.

If hyperthyroidism is not treated, it can begin thyrotoxic crisis and coma, from which many patients died before. Thyrotoxic crisis may occur and mechanical injury of the thyroid gland (for example, in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures during surgery on the thyroid gland), and neuropsychiatric and stress overload. Thyrotoxic crisis is indicative of the severity of the disease.

Thyrotoxic crisis begins acutely and proceeds very rapidly. The first signs of thyrotoxic crisis is a strong mental excitement, turning into hallucinations and delusions, sometimes with impaired consciousness. Falling blood pressure, there is a weakness, tremors in the limbs, and then throughout the body. The excitement is replaced by lethargy appear vomiting, diarrhea, fever, increased tachycardia, in urine there is a characteristic smell of acetone. Intoxication can cause liver failure (acute fatty liver) in violation of its functions, the functions of the adrenal glands. In the absence of adequate means of thyrotoxic crisis can result in coma and death of the patient.

Hyperthyroidism - a condition which is poorly tolerated by patients, so it requires a complete examination and timely adequate therapy.

Galina Romanenko

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