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January is Thyroid Awareness Month

1/20/2015

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What is Thyroid?
The Thyroid gland is a small shaped gland located in the base of the neck. The Thyroid gland influences the function of many of the body’s most important organs, including the heart, brain. Liver, kidneys and skin.

What are the Thyroid conditions and the symptoms?

1.  Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

Signs and Symptoms:
  • Fatigue
  • Drowsiness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Difficulty with learning
  • Dry, brittle hair and nails
  • Dry, itchy skin
  • Puffy face
  • Constipation
  • Sore muscles
  • Weight gain
  • Heavy menstrual flow
  • Increased frequency of miscarriages
  • Increased sensitivity to many medications
2.  Hyperthyroidism

Signs and Symptoms:
  • Fast heart rate, often more than 100 beats per minute
  • Becoming anxious, irritable, argumentative
  • Trembling hands
  • Weight loss, despite eating the same amount or even more than usual
  • Intolerance of warm temperatures and increased likelihood to perspire
  • Loss of scalp hair
  • Tendency of fingernails to separate from the nail bed
  • Muscle weakness, especially of the upper arms and thighs
  • Loose and frequent bowel movements
  • Smooth skin
  • Change in menstrual pattern
  • Increased likelihood for miscarriage
  • Prominent "stare" of the eyes
  • Protrusion of the eyes, with or without double vision (in patients with Graves’ disease)
  • Irregular heart rhythm, especially in patients older than 60 years of age
  • Accelerated loss of calcium from bones, which increases the risk of osteoporosis and fractures
3.  Hypothyroidism

Signs and Symptoms:
  • Pervasive fatigue
  • Drowsiness
  • Forgetfulness
  • Difficulty with learning
  • Dry, brittle hair and nails
  • Dry, itchy skin
  • Puffy face
  • Constipation
  • Sore muscles
  • Weight gain and fluid retention
  • Heavy and/or irregular menstrual flow
  • Increased frequency of miscarriages
  • Increased sensitivity to many medications
4. Graves’ Disease

Signs and Symptoms:
  • Anxiety
  • Irritability
  • Difficulty sleeping
  • Fatigue
  •  A rapid or irregular heartbeat
  •  A fine tremor of your hands or fingers
  • An increase in perspiration or warm, moist skin
  • Sensitivity to heat
  • Weight loss, despite normal eating habits
  • Enlargement of your thyroid gland (goiter)
  • Change in menstrual cycles
  • Erectile dysfunction or reduced libido
  • Frequent bowel movements or diarrhea

5.  Thyroid Nodules

Signs and Symptoms:
Most patients with thyroid nodules have no symptoms whatsoever. Many are found by chance to have a lump in the thyroid gland on a routine physical exam or an imaging study of the neck done for unrelated reasons (for example, a CT or MRI scan of the spine or chest, a carotid ultrasound, etc.). In addition, a substantial number of nodules are first noticed by patients or those they know who see a lump in the front portion of the neck, which may or may not cause symptoms, such as a vague pressure sensation or discomfort when swallowing.

Obviously, finding a lump in the neck should be brought to the attention of your physician, even in the absence of symptoms.

6  Thyroid Cancer

Signs and Symptoms:
Many patients with thyroid cancer have no symptoms and are found by chance to have a lump in the thyroid gland during a routine physical exam, or an imaging study of the neck done for unrelated reasons such as a carotid ultrasound, CT or MRI scan of the spine or chest. Other patients with thyroid cancer become aware of a gradually enlarging lump in the front portion of the neck, which usually moves with swallowing. Occasionally, the lump may cause a feeling of pressure. Obviously, finding a lump in the neck should be brought to the attention of your physician, even in the absence of other symptoms.

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How Seniors can be ready for this winter spell

1/7/2015

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Winter months is getting close to so when the particular heat sheds, it is important intended for more mature parents to prepare for your probable dangers in which cold weather would bring.

For the huge number of senior citizens moving into the particular Northwest, winter may pose several dangers. Accounts demonstrate more incidences regarding injuries and also health issues caused by frozen sidewalks, cool and also dried oxygen, flu worms and in some cases, hypothermia.

Based on the Healthy Growing old Collaboration, a new coalition of greater than forty Puget Noise not-for-profit and also general public organizations specializing in this and also well-being regarding more mature parents, must preserve the following tips at heart to aid ensure safety and also perfect wellbeing this winter.

•             Older parents tend to be more susceptible to hypothermia, which usually arises as soon as excessive warm runs away in the human body. You should dress warmly and also preserve dried, yet just as crucial that you remember great nutrition. Foods afford the fuel we should instead preserve warm. Warm foods and also warm products are usually far better for our bodies.

•             When heading outside, make sure dress warmly. Put on layered, loose-fitting outfits and also mittens. Any time feasible, wear a new cap to protect in opposition to warm decline given that close to 1 / 2 of much human body warm is misplaced throughout the head.

•             You can stop several winter dangers through preparing in advance. Just before winter happens, verify each of the windows and doors at your residence intended for damaged or perhaps worn sealants. The latest program regarding caulking could be necessary; inside a touch, staple a new bed sheet regarding plastic material tarp around actually aged home windows.

•             Talk to your energy or perhaps gas businesses to view if you're able to go on a degree billing process in which average your power repayments just as around 12 many weeks. It doesn't reduce costs; however it helps to budget through the home heating period and stop your own warm coming from becoming disconnected.

•             To steer clear of falls and also drops, wear non-skid shoes or perhaps additional shoes together with a lot of extender.

•             Cold conditions can put further tension on the cardiovascular system. Any time doing winter jobs like shoveling snowfall, accomplish some warm-up exercises very first and also get several breaks.

•             To help save energy, warm simply those people areas that you just use. Shut down the particular basement, shed, cellar, free sleeping rooms or perhaps safe-keeping locations. Yet will not overdo your own money-saving initiatives: maintain thermostat collection to at the very least 65 degrees to counteract hypothermia.

•             Shift energy use coming from peak to off-peak situations. By way of example, accomplish little such things as jogging your own dishwasher right after 9 pm.

•             When having a portable heat tank, connect the particular heat tank towards a wall socket, to not a file format twine. Ensure the particular wall socket and also wires will be in good condition. Maintain the place about the heat tank free of furniture, classifieds or perhaps additional flammable components and also get specific attention to stop tripping around wires.

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