How to check female thyroid gland

Thyroid cyst is a common endocrine disease, which is mostly common in middle-aged women. It is mainly caused by weakening or increasing thyroid hormone, or excessive or insufficient metabolism of thyroid hormone. Thyroid cysts may cause fear of high temperatures, anxiety, and polyphagia. They may also be accompanied by thick neck, bulging eyes, and other symptoms. You should immediately consider whether you have thyroid cysts and do a series of detailed tests to confirm the condition.

How to check for thyroid cysts during routine physical examinations

1. Thyroid function test: to understand the concentration of thyroid hormone in the blood circulation and the patient's autoimmune status. It includes TT3 (triiodothyronine), TT4 (high thyroxine), TSH (super sensitive thyroid stimulating hormone), FT3 (dispersed T3), FT4 (dispersed T4), TPO-Ab (thyroid lactate dehydrogenase antigen) and TG-Ab (thyroid hemoprotein antigen).

2. Check the body's metabolic status: Understand the metabolic status of thyroid cysts, including basal metabolic measurement, blood cholesterol and triglyceride and urine creatine measurement.

3. Pituitary-thyroid axis adjustment test: thyroid 131 iodine absorption rate and thyroid inhibition test, blood cell hypersensitive thyroid growth hormone measurement and thyroid growth hormone release hormone stimulation test, in order to understand the abnormalities of the patient's hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis function.

How to self-check thyroid cysts

1. Pay attention to the shape of the lump. The shape of thyroid nodules can generally be divided into two categories. One is butterfly-shaped, which is common in patients with regional goiter, thyroiditis and some patients with hyperactive thyroid cysts; the other is a round lump that appears at a certain position of the thyroid cyst, which is common in thyroid cysts, thyroid adenomas, and also thyroid cancer.

2. Pay attention to the size of the lump. If it exceeds 2 cm, you need to be careful: the lump is a focal swelling or multiple nodular swelling, which is more common in regional goiter. However, if the diameter of the cyst exceeds 2 cm, thyroid cancer should be suspected.

3. Pay attention to the growth rate of the lump. Be careful if it swells significantly within a dozen days: regional goiter grows slowly, and the history of the disease can be as long as many years; the history of normal tumors and cysts may be several months to many years; and the lump of thyroid cancer grows quickly and swells significantly within a dozen days.

It is actually necessary to check for thyroid cysts. It is recommended that everyone check their bodies once a year. In daily life, we should take good care of our bodies. The presence of thyroid cysts may affect our intelligence. Therefore, friends with thyroid cysts must seek medical attention in time. Don't give up treatment because of any psychological burden. This is a very undesirable mentality.