Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy

thyroid hashimoto chinese treatement ?

I apologize because I speak little english.I am an Italian woman, I’m looking for information on a site that had found a friend of Chinese medicine for the treatment of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. or, if anyone can advise me on how to treat the disorder without the use of hormone replacement therapy (for example, synthetic levothyroxine). You can answer in Spanish or French, I speak better English. thanks!
thanks, but I would avoid surgery

Researchers looked the use of thyroidectomy — surgery to remove the thyroid gland — as a treatment for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. In the study, 474 patients were evaluated: 133 (28%) had preoperative diagnosis of thyroid cancer (, 316 had benign thyroid nodules or goiter, and 25 had symptoms caused by thyroiditis. Among the patients, no one experienced death or permanent surgical complications. 32.1% had transient postoperative hypocalcemia, Less than 1% had transient recurrent nerve palsy, and less than 1% had a postoperative neck hematoma. The researchers concluded that thyroidectomy can be performed in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis with a low risk of permanent surgical complications.

A surprising finding was that a total of fifty-three percent of the patients had thyroid cancer — many more than the 28% who went into the surgery with a thyroid cancer diagnosis. Even when you exclude the patients who already knew they had thyroid cancer going into the surgery, the prevalence of thyroid cancer in the Hashimoto’s patients as still 35.6%. According to the researchers, it is unclear why there is a link between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and cancer — it may have to do with an immune response. Papillary thyroid cancer in Hashimoto’s patients does, however, have a more favorable prognosis than in patients without Hashimoto’s.

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