Patient: My daughter was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism at the local hospital on March 26, 2007. The results of her laboratory tests were: Free FT3 11.39 2.70-5.10pg/ml Free thyroxine 5.13 0.89-1.80ng/dl Thyrotropin 0.02 0.40-3.50mTu/ml At that time, she was taking the following medications: Thyroid tablets (40mg) half tablet/day, Propecia (50mg) 3 tablets/day, Vitamin B43 tablets/day and some nutritional medications. (50mg) 3 tablets/day, vitamin B43 tablets/day, plus some nutritional drugs. I have been using propylthiouracil tablets 1 ½ tablets/day for over a year. The indicators were within the normal range, and on the advice of the local doctor, she went to Shenyang Grand on January 11, 2010, and the test results were as follows: FT4 13.4900 pmol/L 9.0100-19.0500 FT3 6.6300 H pmol/L 2.6300-5.7000 TSH 0.9218 mIU/L 0.3500- 4.9400 TPOAb 168.8300 H IU/mL 0.0000-5.6100 5 TGAb 151.7300 H IU/mL 0.0000-4.1100 The doctor diagnosed Hashimoto’s hyperthyroidism, the doctor recommended propylthiouracil tablets to 2 tablets/day (take half a month), in for 1 ½ tablets/day (take half a month), eugenol half tablets/day my daughter Now she is 14 years old, when will she get well? What should I pay attention to during the day? Will it affect her development? She has not got her period yet? Thank you very much! A: High TPOAb and TGAb values are the basis for the development of Hashimoto’s thyroid disease, which is associated with a genetic susceptibility gene, and often there are others in the family with this disease. The pathology is that the thyroid tissue is destroyed by lymphocyte infiltration, so a significant proportion of patients will require lifelong replacement therapy with thyroxine (e.g., eugenol) as most of the thyroid tissue is gradually destroyed over time. Only a small percentage of patients go into remission, which may be temporary, and then relapse when stimulated by some external factors. This is why our doctors generally do not say that the disease is cured, and even if remission is discontinued, the thyroid function needs to be reviewed regularly. I think thyroid disease is relatively well-treated disease, do not carry too much burden of thought for this, I have a lot of experts around the professor also suffer from this disease, but still live and work normally, just take some medicine every day. So as long as you keep your nail function (T3, T4, TSH, FT3, FT4) normal under the guidance of your doctor, (TPOAb etc. can be abnormal), it will not affect your growth and development. This disease is closely related to a higher intake of iodine, so you should not eat too much iodine-containing things in general.