Can drug hypothyroidism be stopped?

Dr. Sydney Parker
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2025-05-01 22:40:24 Views: 61 times

Hypothyroidism, also known as hypothyroidism, is the most common type of thyroid disease at this stage. The incidence is very high, and there are many types of its causes. For example, primary hypothyroidism accounts for 99%, which is the most common type. There are others including iodine hypothyroidism caused by radiation and drug hypothyroidism. The most common type of drug hypothyroidism is due to taking antithyroid drugs. This is mainly for patients with hyperthyroidism, because the dose of his medicine is not adjusted in time, the dose is too large caused by the destruction of thyroid cells caused by too much. In this case, if there is a drug-induced hypothyroidism can not stop the drug? It must be able to stop the drug. Of course, we here refer to the stop of anti-thyroid drugs, that is, drugs that cause drug-induced hypothyroidism. Because the essence of your drug-induced hypothyroidism is caused by taking medicine, it will generally recover on its own after the root cause is stopped. If your drug dose is very large and the damage to normal cells is very serious, You may need to supplement it with a small dose of levothyroxine sodium. This way, the entire treatment will be more standardized.

Can drug hypothyroidism be stopped?



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