Thyroid for Dummies

Informationen zum Autor Alan L. Rubin , MD has over thirty years' experience treating thyroid conditions and is the co-author of Diabetes For Dummies. Dr. Sarah Brewer is the co-author of Arthritis For Dummies, a health writer and broadcaster, and a former Health Journalist of the Year. Klappentext Includes information on the latest thyroid treatments Understand and manage your thyroid condition Don't get pushed around by the little gland in your neck. Whether you suffer from an underactive or overactive thyroid, nodules, or a goitre, Thyroid For Dummies has all the jargon-free information you need to get to grips with the problem and expert advice on how to get your condition under control. Discover how to Tell if you have a thyroid problem Understand the treatments on offer Deal with your condition day-to-day Get the right diet and exercise Manage thyroid conditions in children and older people Zusammenfassung Includes information on the latest thyroid treatments Understand and manage your thyroid condition Don't get pushed around by the little gland in your neck. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 About This Book 2 Conventions Used in This Book 2 What You Don't Have to Read 2 Assumptions 3 How This Book Is Organised 3 Part I: Understanding Your Thyroid 3 Part II: Treating Thyroid Problems 3 Part III: Managing Your Thyroid 3 Part IV: Considering Special Aspects of Thyroid Health 4 Part V: The Part of Tens 4 Part VI: Appendices 4 Icons Used in This Book 4 Where to Go from Here 5 Part I: Understanding the Thyroid 7 Chapter 1: Bigging It Up: The Huge Role of a Little Gland 9 Discovering the Extent of the Problem 10 Identifying an Unhappy Thyroid 11 Recognising Who's at Risk 11 Realising the Importance of a Healthy Thyroid 12 Treating What Ails You 12 Understanding the Consequences of Delaying Treatment 14 Giving Your Thyroid a Hand: Healthy Lifestyle Choices 14 Paying Special Attention: Pregnant Women, Children, and Older People 15 Staying Informed 16 Chapter 2: Feeling Fragile: The Emotional Effects of Thyroid Problems 17 Exploring How an Underactive Thyroid Slows Your Thoughts 18 Seeing How an Overactive Thyroid Can Trigger Anxiety 19 Fighting Depression 20 Finding out if your thyroid is causing depression 21 Using thyroid hormone to treat depression 22 Chapter 3: Discovering How Your Thyroid Works 25 Locating the Thyroid 26 Producing Thyroid Hormones 28 Identifying the importance of iodine 29 Regulating thyroid hormones 29 Moving thyroid hormones around 30 Understanding the Function of Thyroid Hormones 31 General functions 32 Specific functions 33 Chapter 4: Testing Your Thyroid 37 Checking Blood Levels of Thyroid Hormones 38 Total thyroxine 38 Resin T3 uptake 40 Free thyroxine index 40 Free thyroxine (FT4) 41 Free triiodothyronine (FT3) 42 Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) 42 Taking Non-Hormonal Blood Tests 43 Thyroid autoantibodies 44 Serum thyroglobulin 45 Determining the Size, Shape, and Content of Your Thyroid 46 Radioactive iodine uptake and scan 46 Thyroid ultrasound 48 Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) 49 Part II: Treating Thyroid Problems 51 Chapter 5: Dealing with an Underactive Thyroid 53 Living with Autoimmune Thyroiditis 54 The extent of the problem 54 Symptoms of chronic thyroiditis 55 Approach to treatment 55 Identifying Hypothyroidism 56 Signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism 56 Confusing conditions 57 Pinpointing the...

List of contents

Introduction.
 
Part I: Understanding the Thyroid.
 
Chapter 1: Bigging It Up: The Huge Role of a Little Gland.
 
Chapter 2: Feeling Fragile: The Emotional Effects of Thyroid Problems.
 
Chapter 3: Discovering How Your Thyroid Works.
 
Chapter 4: Testing Your Thyroid.
 
Part II: Treating Thyroid Problems.
 
Chapter 5: Dealing with an Underactive Thyroid.
 
Chapter 6: Taming an Overactive Thyroid.
 
Chapter 7: Getting the Low-Down on Thyroid Nodules.
 
Chapter 8: Coping with Thyroid Cancer.
 
Chapter 9: Learning about Multinodular Goitres.
 
Part III: Managing Your Thyroid.
 
Chapter 10: Taking Care with Drugs That Affect Your Thyroid.
 
Chapter 11: Spotting Thyroid Infections and Inflammation.
 
Chapter 12: Overcoming Iodine Deficiency Disease.
 
Chapter 13: Going In: Surgery on the Thyroid Gland.
 
Chapter 14: Exciting New Approaches in Thyroid Treatment.
 
Chapter 15: Living with Thyroid Problems: Diet and Exercise.
 
Chapter 16: Helping Yourself: Herbs and Homeopathy.
 
Part IV: Special Considerations in Thyroid Health.
 
Chapter 17: Examining the Genetic Link to Thyroid Disease.
 
Chapter 18: Controlling Thyroid Disease during Pregnancy.
 
Chapter 19: Developing Thyroid Conditions in Childhood.
 
Chapter 20: Maturing: Thyroid Disease in Later Life.
 
Part V: The Part of Tens.
 
Chapter 21: Ten Myths about Thyroid Health.
 
Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Maximise Thyroid Health.
 
Part VI: Appendixes.
 
Appendix A: Glossary of Terms.
 
Appendix B: Sources of More Information.
 
Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Sarah Brewer, S Brewer, Sara Brewer, Sarah Brewer, Alan Rubin, Alan L Rubin, Alan L. Rubin, Rubin Alan L.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2006
• EAN: 9780470031728
• ISBN: 978-0-470-03172-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Series: For Dummies; For Dummies
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Schilddrüse, Health & Social Care, Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen, Private Gesundheitsvorsorge, Consumer Health General