Adolescents with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis can be treated with replacement therapy, hormone therapy and surgery.
1. Replacement therapy: If hypothyroidism or mucous edema is serious, supplemental and replacement therapy is needed. The commonly used medication is levothyroxine tablets, which usually requires lifelong treatment, and overdosage needs to be avoided.
2. Hormone therapy: generally is the glucocorticoid drug therapy, applicable to the thyroid enlargement is more rapid, accompanied by local pain or pressure symptoms, more commonly used glucocorticoid drug is prednisone, wait until the symptoms are relieved, need to reduce the amount of taking. If belong to the permanent hypothyroidism children, generally need to take lifelong drug treatment.
3. Surgery: Surgery is not commonly used, and is only considered for adolescents with obvious compression symptoms, no effect of medication, or high suspicion of thyroid cancer.
In addition, the application of the above drugs have certain risks, patients need to get the guidance of specialists.