الثلاثاء، 31 يوليو 2012

Symptoms and diagnosis of Graves' disease

Symptoms of Graves' disease include the following:

    
Symptoms of thyroid hyperactivity:

        
Goitre.

        
Insomnia and nervous tension.

        
Fatigue and difficulty sleeping.

        
Weight loss despite increased appetite for food.

        
Profuse sweat.

        
A jerk of the hands or fingers.

        
Warmth and moisture of hands.

        
Weakness and hair loss.

        
Ease of pounding nails.

        
Hypersensitivity to heat.

        
Increase the number of heartbeat, pulse and increase to more than 90 beats per minute.

        
High blood pressure.Symptoms of the eyesIn many cases occur protruded eye (the emergence of the eye). And be the result of swelling of the tissues and muscles behind the eyeball to eyeball Vtthrk forward and get the patient Bgehoz eyes.Exophthalmos and lead the eye to some of the symptoms are:

        
Watering of the eye.

        
Granules strange feeling for an eye (as if grains of sand for an eye).

        
Hypersensitivity to light.
        

    
In severe cases:

        
Corneal ulcers.

        
Double vision.

        
Eye movement becomes limited.

        
Eye, blurred or impaired vision.
        

    
Usually eye problems occur 6 months before or after the diagnosis of Graves' disease. And be more prevalent in patients smokers. And in some cases, the eye problems are the first sign of Graves' disease.
    

    
Symptoms of skin Graves' dermopathy:
    
In rare cases occur redness and an increase in the thickness of the part from the skin of the leg below the knee when pretibial myxedema and at the top of the foot. And still the reason for this is unknown.
    
Diagnosis of Graves' disease DiagnosisDoctor is expected to Graves disease through medical examination. Where indicated the presence of eye protruded, and enlarged thyroid. Also ask the doctor about the patient's medical history, and family history of certain diseases such as diabetes type I, pernicious anemia, vitiligo.
And diagnosis is confirmed through some tests and analyzes:

    
Measure the proportion of Iierwid hormones (thyroid hormone) T3 and T4.

    
Measuring the rate of thyroid stimulating hormone Thyroid Stimulating Hormone - TSH.

    
Sometimes is the work of X-ray of the thyroid gland using radioactive material.

    
Blood test to confirm the presence of antibodies that stimulate the thyroid gland blood Thyroid-stimulating antibodies (TSAb).

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