Euthyroid Goiter

Sign/Symptoms
Breath Shortness (Dyspnoea) Breathing Painful or Difficult Breathing: Whistling Sound (Stridor) Hoarseness in the Voice Lymph Nodes Neck Swollen Neck (front Of) Lumps Or Bump Around Thyroid Gland Neck Lumps (Swellings) Neck: Thyroid Enlargement Swallowing Difficulty (Dysphagia)

Drugs
Thyroxine

Treatments
Surgery Excision Vitamins Selenium Supplementation No Recommendation Very Low Evidence Minerals Selenium Supplementation No Recommendation Very Low Evidence Medical Therapy Excision Weakly in Favour Low Evidence

Attributes

Our Records are Incomplete for Condition Attributes

Further Tests
Functional Residual Capacity Functional Residual Capacity (Decreased) Thyroglobulin (Tg) Concentration Thyroglobulin (Tg) (Increased)

Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:

Selenium Supplement [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]:

Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present. IMPORTANT: Selenium is toxic in high doses. Massive overdoses can cause kidney failure, breathing difficulty and death. Selenium should only be taken at healthy levels which the body is able to tolerate.

Recommendation: No recommendation (Available evidene does not support claims that selenium helps to prevent or treat any thyroid conditions)

Grade of Evidence: very low quality of evidence

Black Walnut (Juglans Nigra):

Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It is proposed only as a weak supportive symptomatic support, and even then, has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present.

Recommendation: no recommendation (Available evidence does not support claims that Black Walnut helps to treat goiter)

Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence

* www.gradeworkinggroup.org

Summary References

Treatment:

1. Ades T, Alteri R, Gansler T, Yeargin P, "Complete Guide to Complimentary & Alternative Cancer Therapies", American Cancer Society, Atlanta USA, 2009

2. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/selenium?sitearea=ETO

3. http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/doc.aspx?viewid=ED8AD8E8-6AE5-458D-8091-393F4CB73F0D

4. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-selenium.html

5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9290116

6. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9829869

7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10335455

8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2136228

9. http://www.springerlink.com/content/v0r644v4ju5153k2/

10. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/101/5/283

11. http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec19/ch282/ch282b.html?qt=euthyroid%20goiter&alt=sh

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