Tablets RAI, radioactive iodine. Patients treated with anti-thyroid drugs, radioactive iodine permanent remission (RAI), but have a better chance of cure is recommended in the United States. But when you stop taking this medication, low yields of white blood cell count, normal. A decrease in white blood cells, infection can be fatal, and to continue taking the drug. Your doctor, on the same day, stop taking the drug the white blood cells, can tell you right away.

If the infection while taking these drugs, please contact your doctor immediately. In rare cases, the cells of these serious infections if it can potentially be fatal, (a condition called agranulocytosis), disappears completely. Low resistance to infection, the immune system as part of the result, one side of a rare and potentially the most serious of leukocytes. In about 5% of cases, such a rash, hives, allergic reactions, such as anti-thyroid drug-induced fever and joint pain at times. This is another reason to see a doctor early if you suspect that you have the disease.

These drugs can provide a significantly reduced probability of 40% in some patients. 12 to 18 mo of treatment in some patients, if treatment is relatively mild, especially in early disease, antithyroid drugs will result in long-term disease remission. Antithyroid drug works for about 20% 30% of patients. These drugs decrease the thyroid in the production of thyroid hormones, resulting in a need for iodine thyroid hormone, it becomes more difficult. methimazole in this process.) For mild illness, or occur in children and young adults, an increase of heart disease associated with severe disease to age rapidly, or when it is necessary to control the risk of heart rate, drug therapy (propylthiouracil (PTU) as methi MAZOLA and often is the first large-scale thyroid. Treatment is the sharp decline in force until the condition is potentially dangerous, these drugs are useful.

Furthermore, beta-blockers are known as Such atenolol (Tenormin), the first step as Nadororu, doctors first block of beta-as is recommended that you have the adrenergic receptor, If you use the end of treatment (Corgard), metoprolol (Lopressor) or propranolol (Inderal), the prevention of the spread of thyroid function. (Note: the potential damage to the fetal thyroid and breast-feeding of radioactive materials, this process is not in pregnant or nursing.) One is the thyroid uptake of radioactive imaging with radioactive iodine can check whether the hyperthyroidism.