Hypothyroidism
Genetic Disorder Project
Introducing Segment
This disease is also called ," underactive thyroid". Hypothyroidism is an underactive thyroid gland. This means that the original thyroid gland cannot make enough thyroid hormones to keep the body processing normally. Since the main purpose of having a thyroid gland is to run the body's metabolism. In this condition, several people will experience different symptoms that will slow down their mental thinking process. On estimation, 10 million Americans have this condition. Hypothyroidism is more common that you would believe, many people all over the world have this disease and they don't even know it.
Brief Discovery
Symptoms
-Feel colder
- You get tired more easily
-Skin gets drier and cracks
- Memory loss
- Depressed
- Constipation
- Hairloss
- Facial Puffiness
- Slow Speech
- Hoarse Voice
If you decide not to rush into thyroid replacement, you can go to your doctor and they will help you through everything. Doctors will normally write a prescription for Hypothyroid patients. If you keep on track with the schedule the doctor has given you for when to take your certain pills, the symptoms should disappear gradually over time.
On the left you see the facial puffiness that the condition took over, rather than the right side before this patient contracted Hypothyroidism.