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hashimoto's disease
Can you please help me understand and explain Hashimoto disease. Where did it get its name? Is there a cure?
I'm not trying to argue, but Dr. Hakaru Hashimoto is where the name of the disease came from.
Not a town or a province.
Check out the link.
It explains what he did and why the disease is named after him. A very short explanation, but acurate.
Not a town or a province.
Check out the link.
It explains what he did and why the disease is named after him. A very short explanation, but acurate.
Well I believe your story the place is Hashimoto, a place in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan but that was the story told to me.
http://www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp/pub/labo/www/VTR/Hashi.html
Here's a link (not a good one) that introduces you to Dr. Hakaru Hashimoto.
Here's a link (not a good one) that introduces you to Dr. Hakaru Hashimoto.
Hashimoto's disease is named for the Doctor Hashimoto who first did something. Discovered thyroid antibodies? Don't remember.
He defined the illness and pioneered treatment, I believe.
It is an autoimmune disease, and it is not curable. It starts when your body erroneously starts producing antibodies that attack the thyroid or deliberately impede it's function, in an attempt to rid the body of the gland.
It is the most common form of hypothyroidism.
It is unpredictable how the disease will manifest and progress, but the number of different thyroid antibodies you have, and the quantity of those antibodies plays a role in how the disease will progress.
Some people have it in a very mild form and it can be controlled with replacement hormones with little trouble.
Others have a more aggressive form that destroys the thyroid gland over the course of a few years and controlling it is very difficult.
There are as many different degrees of the illness as there are shades of the color white. For some people it is a minor annoyance. For some people it is debilitating. Most people fall somewhere between the two ends of that spectrum.
He defined the illness and pioneered treatment, I believe.
It is an autoimmune disease, and it is not curable. It starts when your body erroneously starts producing antibodies that attack the thyroid or deliberately impede it's function, in an attempt to rid the body of the gland.
It is the most common form of hypothyroidism.
It is unpredictable how the disease will manifest and progress, but the number of different thyroid antibodies you have, and the quantity of those antibodies plays a role in how the disease will progress.
Some people have it in a very mild form and it can be controlled with replacement hormones with little trouble.
Others have a more aggressive form that destroys the thyroid gland over the course of a few years and controlling it is very difficult.
There are as many different degrees of the illness as there are shades of the color white. For some people it is a minor annoyance. For some people it is debilitating. Most people fall somewhere between the two ends of that spectrum.
Hashimoto got its name from the sea side town what happened it the people in that town became goitereon but no one knew why so many people developed goiters until one doctor realized that the people their were eating toxic Kelp. That is the reason to be carful which Kelp you eat. So, hence the name. If, you want the full length version goto the Iodine Forum.
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