Thyroid Storm-Is it Dangerous? You need to read this?

Thyroid Storm is a very dangerous condition and blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature of a person having thyroid storm, can reach dangerously high levels and can be life threatening.

If you even have a small doubt of having thyroid storm, then you must immediately get admitted to a hospital. If thyroid storm is not treated within hours,then a heart attack could be the result.

Do I still need to tell you that thyroid storm is dangerous?

As I have mentioned above a person having thyroid storm will have high body temperatures(could be as high as 106); a very high heart rate and blood pressure.

The person will start feeling extremely weak and be fatigued very quickly.
Extreme restlessness, mood swings and dehydration due to profuse sweating are common symptoms of thyroid storm.

Sometimes the patient may also go into a coma.

A person having thyroid storm is actually unable to function normally and should be taken to the hospital immediately and should be given emergency treatment by the doctors.

You should not attempt to do self treatment or even treat your family members if they have thyroid storm, unless you are a qualified doctor.

Just in case, you want to know how a doctor usually treats thyroid storm, here are a few common procedure that they should be following:
--- should find out the cause of thyroid storm
--- should give treatment for heart ,if the patient had a heart attack
--- should block the action of thyroid hormones , and to control the high fever.

Please refer your doctor if you want to know more about it.

Thyroid storm is just one form of thyroid disease , but there are many other forms of thyroid conditions which you should be aware of .

If you want to know all about the different types of thyroid conditions then go the site which gives details about all types of thyroid conditions

Thyroid storm:
Thyroid storm is a very deadly and life-threatening
disease caused by an excess of the thyroid hormone.

There are a number of factors that could cause thyroid storm.

A few of these factors are :
- including over-replacement of thyroid hormones,
- discontinuing medications taken to treat hyperthyroidism.

Symptoms of thyroid storm can include:
fever (potentially as high as 105-106 degrees F), racing pulse,
nausea,
vomiting,
diarrhea,
irregular heart beat,
confusion,
and weakness.
Thyroid storm also leads to heart failure in many cases and requires urgent medical treatment.