Dietary considerations for patients with thyroid disease

Mondo Health Updated on 2024-01-29

Patients with thyroid disease should eat multivitamin, high-protein, and high-calorie products, and should not overeat raw and cold stimulating foods.

Patients should be active, static in combination and stop appropriate movements. Develop the Xi of bowel movements every day. Keep warm to prevent colds. The diet should be nutritious, but avoid eating raw and cold foods.

If it is complicated by severe acute infection, severe physical illness, pleural effusion, ascites and pericardial effusion, refractory angina, heart failure, myxedema coma, etc., you should be sent to the hospital immediately**.

1. Supplement and stop the appropriate amount of iodine, and avoid the use of goiter-bearing substances.

Iodized salt: The concentration of 2 10 kg of salt and 1 gram of potassium iodide is used to prevent goiter nationwide, and the incidence is significantly reduced. Attention should also be paid to iodized salt supplementation for women of childbearing age to prevent their offspring from developing cretinism due to maternal iodine deficiency.

Prevent the consumption of raw goiter substances: Prevent the consumption of cabbage, Chinese cabbage, rape, cassava, walnuts to prevent the onset of goiter.

2. Sufficient protein: The quality of protein production per person per day needs to exceed 20g, so as to effectively maintain the balance of our human protein structure, amino acids are the fundamental components of local protein, and about 3% of the protein degree is updated from time to time every day, and the small intestinal mucosa is updated from time to time when hypothyroidism, and the digestive juice secretion gland is affected, and the enzyme vitality can fall, and the ordinary albumin can fall, so essential amino acids should be supplemented, and sufficient protein should be supplemented to improve the patient's condition.

3. Restriction as well as fat and cholesterol-rich diet: Patients with hypothyroidism often have hyperlipidemia, which is more pronounced with primary hypothyroidism, so it should be limited to incur fat to stop eating. Use adipose tissue** to account for about 20% of your calories every day and limit a cholesterol-rich diet.

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