Patients with hyperthyroidism should pay attention to:
(1) Taboo spicy food: pepper, raw onion, raw garlic;
(2) Taboo seafood: kelp, shrimp, hairtail and laver;
(3) taboo strong tea, coffee, tobacco and alcohol;
(4) Keep calm and prevent fatigue.
(5) Eat the following foods: broccoli, cabbage sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, mustard leaves, peaches, pears, radishes, soybeans, spinach and turnips. These foods help to suppress thyroid hormones.
Treatment and diet
In daily food, kelp, laver, Chinese cabbage, marine fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish are rich in iodine. Excessive iodine is not good for diseases, as follows:
(1) Aggravating hyperthyroidism: Because iodine is the main raw material for making thyroid hormone, taking iodine for a long time will aggravate hyperthyroidism and even cause hyperthyroidism caused by iodine.
(2) Adverse to treatment: Excessive iodine intake may also make the thyroid tissue hard, leading to prolonged illness and affecting the treatment of antithyroid drugs. Excessive iodine will prolong the time of taking thyroid drugs to treat hyperthyroidism and reduce the cure rate. After excessive iodine supplementation, the cure rate of hyperthyroidism will drop to 20% ~ 35%.
Therefore, patients with hyperthyroidism should avoid eating seafood, such as kelp, laver, marine fish and other iodine-containing foods, and ban Chinese medicines containing iodine, such as laver and kelp. Patients should eat non-iodized salt when they eat salt. If iodized salt is used, it should be fried at high temperature for a period of time to let the iodine evaporate.
Taking western medicine for hyperthyroidism is an inhibitory therapy, and the indexes of thyroid function can return to normal quickly, but the side effects are too great and it is easy to relapse. Taking medicine for life will damage the liver, lose weight and reduce white blood cells, which means that immunity is reduced.