Hypothyroidism index during pregnancy

Pregnant women are more likely to develop thyroid diseases during pregnancy. Hypothyroidism is a more serious thyroid disease that can only be detected through special examinations. Therefore, many patients have delayed their treatment due to the lack of detailed examinations. Thyroid indicators during pregnancy will change to a certain extent. Why is this?

If a woman with hypothyroidism becomes pregnant, her children may suffer from intellectual or physical retardation in the future. Therefore, it is believed that those who have symptoms of hypothyroidism or low T3, T4, and TBG during pregnancy should be given appropriate thyroid medication. Due to the changes in hormones in the body during pregnancy, some pregnant women with untreated hypothyroidism can have their symptoms relieved in the late pregnancy, and the offspring of pregnant women who have undergone systemic treatment will also develop normally. In your case, it is in the early stage of pregnancy. Generally, the fetus's bones develop after 20 weeks, while its intellectual development starts to flourish around 28 weeks. Therefore, your hypothyroidism before 60 days of pregnancy will have little effect on the fetus. You can take Euthyrox as advised by your doctor to change and increase the level of thyroid hormone in your body. Make sure to attend every prenatal check-up.

If a pregnant woman suffers from hypothyroidism, it may affect the intellectual development of the fetus and even cause serious intellectual disabilities. Insufficient thyroid hormone secretion in pregnant women can affect the growth and intellectual development of the child, and even cause cretinism.

Hypothyroidism in pregnant women can affect the normal development of the fetal nervous system, leading to intellectual development disorders in the fetus and low intelligence levels at birth. At the same time, pregnancy is prone to complications such as gestational hypertension, placental abruption, anemia, and stillbirth. In your case, you should actively do prenatal check-ups.

The function of hypothyroidism indicators is to reflect whether the thyroid function is normal. It mainly refers to some indicators of thyroid hormone secretion, such as thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb) and peroxidase antibodies (TPOAb), etc. These are important indicators that reflect the cause of hypothyroidism and are necessary examination items for patients with hypothyroidism when treating the disease. Generally speaking, the values ​​of these items will be within a certain range. If the result of the examination is that the value of the indicator is too large or too small, it can promptly reflect whether the patient has hypothyroidism, which means that the patient's thyroid hormone secretion is too high or too low.

What are the indicators of hypothyroidism in pregnant women? Take the following as examples: TT3 (normal reference value 0.8-2.2), TT4 (normal reference value 40-150), STSH (normal reference value 0.2-7), TG (normal reference value <30%). In other words, if the examination data of pregnant women with hypothyroidism does not exceed the test value, it means that the patient's hypothyroidism function is normal. Otherwise, it means that the patient's hypothyroidism has a tendency to worsen. During treatment, doctors also use drugs based on these data. Only in this way can targeted treatment be achieved.