The treatment of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis depends on whether the disease is accompanied by abnormal thyroid function. Depending on the patient’s symptoms and manifestations, it generally includes general treatment, drug treatment and surgical treatment, etc. The treatment of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis depends on whether the disease is accompanied by abnormal thyroid function.
1. General treatment: Pay attention to iodine intake to avoid the disease developing into thyroid function abnormality; for patients with normal thyroid function tests, they should go to the hospital for review in time.
2. Medication: When hypothyroidism occurs, levothyroxine hormone replacement therapy is given, usually starting from a small dose and gradually increasing the dose, according to the patient’s age and heart function to the dose that can be completely replaced, and the medication usually needs to be taken for the rest of one’s life.
3. Surgery: Generally, simple Hashimoto’s thyroiditis does not require surgery unless there are suspicious nodules, cancerous lesions or other tumors, and when the mass is too large with pressure, affecting the life and appearance of the patient, an appropriate surgical plan needs to be chosen.
Drugs need to be used under the guidance of a physician, it is recommended that patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis go to the endocrinology department of a regular hospital and follow the prescribed treatment.