Thyroid Disease : Hashimoto's thyroiditis (chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis) Treatments In conventional Medicine Perspective

Home of Kyle J. Norton for The Better of Living & Living Health Thyroid is one of the largest endocrine glands found in the neck, below the Adam’s Apple with the function of regulating the body use of energy, make of proteins by producing its hormones as a result of the stimulation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) produced by the anterior pituitary.
Thyroid disease is defined as a condition of malfunction of thyroid. Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland is over active and produces too much thyroid hormones. Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland is under active and produces very little thyroid hormones. Thyroid cancer is defined as condition in which the cells in the thyroid gland have become cancerous.
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis)
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the thyroid gland of that mostly often leads an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism). According to the study by the University of Pisa, Women with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT)  suffer from a high symptom load independently from hypothyroidism, which results just a contributing factor to the development of the clinical syndrome. In agreement with these results, we recently reported on the presence of symptoms and signs consistent with fibromyalgia (FM) in patients with HT regardless thyroid dysfunction, focusing to the weight of anti-thyroid autoimmunity in the HT-associated clinical syndrome(a).
F. Treatments
A. In conventional Medicine
1. Levothyroxine therapy
In the study to evaluate the clinical course of Hashimoto‘s thyroiditis (HT) in children and adolescents and the effects of levothyroxine therapy on the clinical course and laboratory findings, showed that thyroid functions of the patients with HT should be monitored periodically for hypothyroidism. Levothyroxine therapy may positively affect the clinical course of the disease and the antibody titers(33).

2. Combination of liothyronine (T3) and levothyroxine
In a systematic review of all the published controlled studies comparing treatment with levothyroxine alone with combinations of levothyroxine plus liothyronine in hypothyroid patients, identified through the Entrez-PubMed search engine, found thatnine controlled clinical trials were identified that compared treatment with levothyroxine alone and treatment with combinations of levothyroxine plus liothyronine and included a sufficient number of adult hypothyroid patients to yield meaningful results. In only one study did the combined therapy appear to have beneficial effects on the mood, quality of life, and psychometric performance of the patients over levothyroxine alone. These results have not been confirmed by later studies using either T₃ substitution protocols or approaches with fixed combinations of levothyroxine plus liothyronine, including those based on the physiological proportion in which T₃ and T₄ are secreted by the human thyroid. However, in some of these studies the patients preferred levothyroxine plus liothyronine combinations, for reasons not explained by changes in the psychological and psychometric tests employed. Yet patients’ preference should be balanced against the possibility of adverse events resulting from the addition of liothyronine to levothyroxine, even in the small doses used in these studies. Until clear advantages of levothyroxine plus liothyronine are demonstrated, the administration of levothyroxine alone should remain the treatment of choice for replacement therapy of hypothyroidism(34).

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(a) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22147633
(33) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22155461
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