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Hashimoto’s disease is simply called chronic thyroiditis. The symptoms of the disease are so diverse that it is actually difficult to recognize the disease on your own and immediately turn to a specialist. Each of the sufferers may experience Hashimoto’s in a slightly different way.
The most common symptoms of Hashimoto’s disease:
- It’s primarily dry skin; skin is often dry even when using moisturizing creams
- In women, Hashimoto’s disease can also manifest itself with heavy menstruation
- In addition, the patient often feels tired for no apparent reason
- By measuring cholesterol, patients with Hashimoto’s disease notice its increase
- Feeling drowsy even after a good night’s sleep
- Difficulty concentrating and memory problems
- Frequent mood swings and a tendency to depression
- Joint and muscle pain may also occur
- You may notice slow hair loss
- Women can also experience ovulatory disorders, which, however, are difficult to notice on their own. Sometimes it “comes out” when a woman tries to get pregnant for a long time, but unfortunately without success
Disease statistics
Women are more often affected, especially middle-aged and elderly women. However, this is not a good indicator of the disease, because the disease also affects younger women, but simply less often. People with a general family history of thyroid-related diseases and people with type 1 diabetes are also more likely to get sick.
Why do we get sick?
Hashimoto’s disease was discovered by a Japanese doctor who gave it his own name. It is a disease directly related to the immune system and is classified as an autoimmune disease. It is associated with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, in which the immune system inadequately recognizes thyroid proteins, destroying them at the first “contact”.
Disease triggering
The disease, although it is associated with autoaggression on the part of the immune system and may have family (genetic) causes, is triggered in a given period of life as a result of completely independent reasons. These triggers Hashimoto’s disease are primarily: temporary mental problems, severe stress, physical and mental exhaustion of the body, infection that has not been treated for a long time and is difficult to treat. As you can see, the most serious factors that contribute to the formation of the disease are all problems related to our psyche and the lack of a healthy lifestyle (workaholism, depression, lack of rest, inability to cope with stress: these are also social factors accompanying the development of civilization).