As the number of people suffering from thyroid disorders has increased this year, there has been a growing concern about thyroid nodules. Thyroid nodules are a common type of thyroid disease, mostly found among middle-aged women, and are mostly seen in multiple nodules. The nodules on the thyroid gland may be thyroid cancer, thyroid adenoma, or others, and are collectively referred to as thyroid nodules until they are clearly identified.
Thyroid nodules are classified into two categories: benign and malignant, with benign nodules accounting for the majority and malignant nodules for less than 1%. A variety of thyroid disorders, such as thyroid degeneration, inflammation, autoimmunity, and neoplasia, can manifest as nodules. Thyroid nodules can be solitary or multiple. Multiple nodules have a higher incidence than solitary nodules, but solitary nodules have a higher incidence of thyroid cancer.
To completely remove the root cause of thyroid disease, it is necessary to find out its root cause and cut off the thyroid nodules from the source.
What are the causes of thyroid nodules?
(A) Emotional internal injury
When phlegm and qi are stagnant for a long time, the blood flow is obstructed and blood stagnation occurs, which can lead to gall swelling and even nodules. As “Jisheng Fang – gall tumor treatment” said: “Gall tumor, mostly due to uncontrolled joy and anger, excessive worry and thought, and into the disease. The human qi and blood, circulating all over the body, often want to be free of stagnation of the problem, the regulation of inappropriate, gas condensation blood stagnation, as gall for tumor.
(B) Dietary disorders
Dietary disorders affect the function of the spleen and stomach, so that the spleen is not healthy and can not transport water and dampness, which leads to phlegm; secondly, it affects the normal operation of Qi and blood, and phlegm stagnates in front of the neck and develops into gall tumor. In conclusion, the main pathogenesis of this disease is the stagnation of liver qi, loss of spleen health, internal production of phlegm and dampness, stagnation of qi and blood, and condensation of phlegm and dampness in front of the neck.
(C) Self-factors
Patients with a clear family history of the disease, in addition to autoimmune factors may cause the disease.
(D) Part of it may be closely related to the development of detection technology nowadays
In the past, when thyroid examinations were done during medical checkups, they were mostly done by surgical palpation. The location of the thyroid gland is relatively hidden, often difficult to detect small thyroid nodules, but also related to the experience of the detector, so the detection rate of nodules is also very low. In contrast, thyroid ultrasonography is now generally taken, which has a high sensitivity and specificity in predicting thyroid cancer and can immediately detect very small thyroid nodules. Ultrasound examination of the thyroid gland has now become a mandatory part of medical checkups.
The symptoms of thyroid nodules can vary depending on the causative factors, the region of the patient, etc. Different types of thyroid nodules have different symptoms. Different types of thyroid nodules have different symptoms, and different symptoms can be harmful to the patient’s body.
So, what are the symptoms of thyroid nodules?
1, the thyroid gland body found on a single or multiple size, round or oval, smooth surface, and the surrounding non-adhesive, with swallowing up and down, slightly harder than the normal gland, no adhesions and no pressure pain lumps, can maintain the original shape for a long time or slowly grow (more common in women over 30 years old)
2.Nodules in the thyroid gland are clearly demarcated from the surrounding thyroid tissue, generally 3 to 4 cm in diameter, nodules are hard, hardness can exceed that of substantial tumors, small cysts are generally asymptomatic, huge cysts can produce compression symptoms.
3, early thyroid gland is mildly enlarged, soft, no conscious symptoms, as the gland increases, nodules appear, enlargement can be serious compression symptoms, but thyroid function is normal, the age of onset is generally 40 to 50 years old or above, female incidence is higher than male, long history, often combined with cardiac lesions
4, the disease is acute, there is fever, sore throat and one or both sides of the thyroid gland is enlarged and hard, the nodules in the thyroid gland body size varies, can be single or multiple, hard texture local pain, and often to the back of the ear, the back of the top of the head radiation, accompanied by significant pain and pressure pain in the thyroid gland body parts
5, the disease and the development process is slow, the enlargement of the thyroid gland may be asymmetric, the nodules are hard and widely adherent and fixed with the adjacent tissues outside the gland, there is local hidden pain and pressure pain, accompanied by obvious pressure symptoms, but the local lymph nodes are not enlarged, mostly seen in middle-aged women.
6, slow disease, mostly seen in middle-aged women, diffuse thyroid enlargement without nodules, or manifested as asymmetric thyroid enlargement, lobulated surface (cool nodules), texture like rubber-like tough, no pressure pain
7, early no obvious conscious symptoms, only hard painless lumps in the thyroid gland, the surface is not flat, faster growth, irregular shape, poor mobility, later can grow rapidly and appear voice, swallowing difficulties, breathing difficulties and other pressure symptoms, local lymph node enlargement or distant metastases.
After reading about these symptoms of thyroid nodules, thyroid nodules are very harmful and may transform into thyroid adenoma, which may even threaten the life of patients in serious cases, so timely treatment must be given to avoid greater harm to the body! Li Guolou chief physician suggested that patients, treatment of thyroid nodules must go to the regular hospital to receive authoritative treatment methods, in order to achieve twice the result with half the effort!