33-year-old Ms. Tang suffers from rhinitis for many years and has a lot of sputum and nasal discharge. Since April this year, Ms. Tang often feels tracheal adhesions, breathing is not smooth, and sometimes she will be awakened when she sleeps at night. "I often feel like my trachea is blocked, and I am afraid that I will be suffocated to death in my sleep."
Later, Ms. Tang went to the hospital for examination and found that it was not the difficulty of breathing caused by rhinitis, but the thyroid nodule in thyroid , and the nodule has begun to compress the trachea. Ultrasound examination found that the thyroid gland was enlarged, the morphology was irregular, the envelope was not complete, and the thyroid was accompanied by uneven echoes. 3mm×2mm capsule solid nodules were seen in the right lobe, TI-RADS category 3, and the elastic score was 2 points.
Local doctors recommend surgical removal directly to prevent the nodules from developing again. Ms. Tang was a little panicked when she heard that she had to undergo surgery, but considering that she was still young and did not want to lose her thyroid, she came to Beijing directly with her family to see if there were any other treatment options.
When I met Ms. Tang, Ms. Tang's neck had already begun to swell. I checked Ms. Tang again to determine whether the properties of the nodules are benign and that microwave ablation can be performed. I told Ms. Tang that ablation is minimally invasive and does not require the thyroid gland to be cut open like a resection surgery, and there is no need to take any medication after ablation. After the ablation of
, Ms. Tang asked me, how should I pay attention to the intake of iodine in daily life? In fact, there should be several situations for iodine intake:
1, no thyroid function problems
If there is no thyroid function problems, you can just eat an iodine diet. Like normal people, the daily iodine intake is about 150 micrograms. Don’t have to worry too much, but it is definitely not to say that you can eat seafood as a meal. Although there is no need to strictly control it, you should also avoid eating large amounts of seafood and other high-iodine foods for a long time.
2. Patients with hyperthyroidism have problems with
can check the salt ingredients list as long as it does not contain "iodine". Moreover, the processed foods sold on the market generally use iodized salt, and the amount of salt is generally not small. So try not to eat processed foods unless you make them yourself with iodine-free salt.
3. Hypothyroidism has occurred.
. Compared with the diet that avoids iodine, the diet is much looser. If you choose iodized salt, don’t eat seafood with high iodine content such as kelp, seaweed, shrimp and shellfish, and try to avoid processed foods. If you choose iodine-free salt, seafood does not have to be controlled so strictly and can be consumed appropriately.
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