Fast-paced life, ubiquitous stress, the environment a large number of proposed hormone substances …… under the siege of many unfavorable factors, some people’s thyroid gland strongly “rebound”, secretion of large amounts of thyroxine. As an endocrine hormone, a very small amount can produce considerable biological effects, hyperthyroidism triggered by the consequences can be described as catastrophic – light hand tremor, sudden eye, temper tantrums; serious cases can lead to the heart and other important organs of the lesions and even fatal. The conventional treatment of hyperthyroidism has its drawbacks The most common method of treating hyperthyroidism is to take medication. The endocrine mechanism of the human body is extremely complex, many of the details of which are not yet understood by the medical profession, and thus drug therapy takes a longer time, often requiring one or two years or even longer. As medical treatment has its drawbacks, can surgery “get rid of the disease”? The truth is that surgery carries certain risks. Although the thyroid gland is superficially located, there are many important blood vessels and nerves around it, especially the recurrent laryngeal nerve. If the nerve is inadvertently damaged during the operation, the patient will suffer from hoarseness as a sequela. What’s more terrible is that some patients’ parathyroid glands are hidden in the thyroid gland, and if the parathyroid glands are removed during the surgery, the patient’s blood calcium concentration will drop significantly, triggering convulsions of the hands and feet, which may even be life-threatening. Nuclear medicine therapy “leveled” hyperthyroidism Nuclear medicine therapy provides a third way out for the treatment of hyperthyroidism. It combines the advantages of medication and surgery, while avoiding the side effects, bringing good news to hyperthyroid patients. The word “nuclear” in nuclear medicine makes many people skeptical and even fearful. In fact, there is no need, the therapeutic dose of nuclides on human health impact is minimal. The thyroid gland has a characteristic – it has a special taste for iodine, and most of the iodine ingested by the human body through the digestive tract is enriched in the thyroid gland. This gives the nuclear medicine treatment provides the convenience, the patient orally contains 131 iodine medicine, has the decay characteristics of 131 iodine through the blood circulation to the thyroid gland. 131 iodine in the process of decay released beta rays, rays of energy released can destroy the hyperfunction of the thyroid gland tissue, just like a bloodless surgery, silent “swinging flat”. The result is a bloodless surgery that quietly “flattens” hyperthyroidism. Many patients believe that the body will be “eaten up” during the treatment. In fact, beta rays have a very short range of only 2 millimeters and will not affect tissues outside the thyroid gland. More importantly, the half-life of 131 iodine in the human body is only 3-5 days, and the radiation dose received by a patient during a course of treatment is only 1/5 of that of an ordinary X-ray, which will not cause any damage to health. Patients who cannot tolerate medication and surgery should not hesitate to choose nuclear medicine therapy.