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Body Talk 27/5/15

This week I was joined by Mr Taleb Jeddy, a consultant general surgeon at Spire Hartswood Hospital in Brentwood. Mr Jeddy qualified in 1981 and offers private consultation, treatment and surgery at the Hartswood and NHS services at Basildon Hospital where he is the lead consultant for endocrine surgery. He was talking about common thyroid and parathyroid problems.

Mr Jeddy has performed more day case operations than any other surgeon in the UK. It is amazing that this kind of major surgery can be performed in a day and the patients can now go home and return to normal within a short time. His results have been presented at various national and international congresses.

The thyroid gland is a gland that produces thyroid hormones. It lies in your neck on either side of your trachea (windpipe), beneath the ‘Adam’s apple’. The hormones produced by this gland are called thyroxine, tri-idothyronine and calcitonin. The first two hormones affect the metabolism of your body cells. l Hyperthyroidism is when too much thyroxine or thyroid hormone is produced and the body cells work faster than normal. l Hypothyroidism is when too little thyroid hormones are produced and the body cells work slower than normal. It is possible to have normal thyroid hormone levels and still have thyroid disease. The third hormone, calcitonin, helps to lower phosphate levels, in response to increases in calcium in the blood. Too much of this hormone may be produced in some forms of thyroid cancer. Thyroid hormone control is regulated by the pituitary gland, which lies underneath your brain in your skull and produces thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). The more TSH the pituitary gland produces, the harder the thyroid gland works

Symptoms of overactive thyroid are a fast and sometimes irregular pulse, irritability, clammy hands, sweating, shakiness, vomiting and diarrhoea, loss of weight in spite of good appetite.  Symptoms of under active thyroid are muscle weakness, cramps, a hoarse voice, slow heart rate, dry flaky skin, weight gain. Sometimes there are no symptoms and disease is found by chance.

If you have any cause for concern, the first port of call is your GP who will then refer you for tests and then you can ask for an appointment with Mr Jeddy at Spire Hartswood.

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Body Talk 27/5/15

This week I was joined by Mr Taleb Jeddy, a consultant general surgeon at Spire Hartswood Hospital in Brentwood. Mr Jeddy qualified in 1981 and offers private consultation, treatment and surgery at the Hartswood and NHS services at Basildon Hospital where he is the lead consultant for endocrine surgery. He was talking about common thyroid and parathyroid problems.

Mr Jeddy has performed more day case operations than any other surgeon in the UK. It is amazing that this kind of major surgery can be performed in a day and the patients can now go home and return to normal within a short time. His results have been presented at various national and international congresses.

The thyroid gland is a gland that produces thyroid hormones. It lies in your neck on either side of your trachea (windpipe), beneath the ‘Adam’s apple’. The hormones produced by this gland are called thyroxine, tri-idothyronine and calcitonin. The first two hormones affect the metabolism of your body cells. l Hyperthyroidism is when too much thyroxine or thyroid hormone is produced and the body cells work faster than normal. l Hypothyroidism is when too little thyroid hormones are produced and the body cells work slower than normal. It is possible to have normal thyroid hormone levels and still have thyroid disease. The third hormone, calcitonin, helps to lower phosphate levels, in response to increases in calcium in the blood. Too much of this hormone may be produced in some forms of thyroid cancer. Thyroid hormone control is regulated by the pituitary gland, which lies underneath your brain in your skull and produces thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). The more TSH the pituitary gland produces, the harder the thyroid gland works

Symptoms of overactive thyroid are a fast and sometimes irregular pulse, irritability, clammy hands, sweating, shakiness, vomiting and diarrhoea, loss of weight in spite of good appetite.  Symptoms of under active thyroid are muscle weakness, cramps, a hoarse voice, slow heart rate, dry flaky skin, weight gain. Sometimes there are no symptoms and disease is found by chance.

If you have any cause for concern, the first port of call is your GP who will then refer you for tests and then you can ask for an appointment with Mr Jeddy at Spire Hartswood.

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Body Talk 27/5/15

This week I was joined by Mr Taleb Jeddy, a consultant general surgeon at Spire Hartswood Hospital in Brentwood. Mr Jeddy qualified in 1981 and offers private consultation, treatment and surgery at the Hartswood and NHS services at Basildon Hospital where he is the lead consultant for endocrine surgery. He was talking about common thyroid and parathyroid problems.

Mr Jeddy has performed more day case operations than any other surgeon in the UK. It is amazing that this kind of major surgery can be performed in a day and the patients can now go home and return to normal within a short time. His results have been presented at various national and international congresses.

The thyroid gland is a gland that produces thyroid hormones. It lies in your neck on either side of your trachea (windpipe), beneath the ‘Adam’s apple’. The hormones produced by this gland are called thyroxine, tri-idothyronine and calcitonin. The first two hormones affect the metabolism of your body cells. l Hyperthyroidism is when too much thyroxine or thyroid hormone is produced and the body cells work faster than normal. l Hypothyroidism is when too little thyroid hormones are produced and the body cells work slower than normal. It is possible to have normal thyroid hormone levels and still have thyroid disease. The third hormone, calcitonin, helps to lower phosphate levels, in response to increases in calcium in the blood. Too much of this hormone may be produced in some forms of thyroid cancer. Thyroid hormone control is regulated by the pituitary gland, which lies underneath your brain in your skull and produces thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). The more TSH the pituitary gland produces, the harder the thyroid gland works

Symptoms of overactive thyroid are a fast and sometimes irregular pulse, irritability, clammy hands, sweating, shakiness, vomiting and diarrhoea, loss of weight in spite of good appetite.  Symptoms of under active thyroid are muscle weakness, cramps, a hoarse voice, slow heart rate, dry flaky skin, weight gain. Sometimes there are no symptoms and disease is found by chance.

If you have any cause for concern, the first port of call is your GP who will then refer you for tests and then you can ask for an appointment with Mr Jeddy at Spire Hartswood.

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Body Talk 27/5/15

This week I was joined by Mr Taleb Jeddy, a consultant general surgeon at Spire Hartswood Hospital in Brentwood. Mr Jeddy qualified in 1981 and offers private consultation, treatment and surgery at the Hartswood and NHS services at Basildon Hospital where he is the lead consultant for endocrine surgery. He was talking about common thyroid and parathyroid problems.

Mr Jeddy has performed more day case operations than any other surgeon in the UK. It is amazing that this kind of major surgery can be performed in a day and the patients can now go home and return to normal within a short time. His results have been presented at various national and international congresses.

The thyroid gland is a gland that produces thyroid hormones. It lies in your neck on either side of your trachea (windpipe), beneath the ‘Adam’s apple’. The hormones produced by this gland are called thyroxine, tri-idothyronine and calcitonin. The first two hormones affect the metabolism of your body cells. l Hyperthyroidism is when too much thyroxine or thyroid hormone is produced and the body cells work faster than normal. l Hypothyroidism is when too little thyroid hormones are produced and the body cells work slower than normal. It is possible to have normal thyroid hormone levels and still have thyroid disease. The third hormone, calcitonin, helps to lower phosphate levels, in response to increases in calcium in the blood. Too much of this hormone may be produced in some forms of thyroid cancer. Thyroid hormone control is regulated by the pituitary gland, which lies underneath your brain in your skull and produces thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). The more TSH the pituitary gland produces, the harder the thyroid gland works

Symptoms of overactive thyroid are a fast and sometimes irregular pulse, irritability, clammy hands, sweating, shakiness, vomiting and diarrhoea, loss of weight in spite of good appetite.  Symptoms of under active thyroid are muscle weakness, cramps, a hoarse voice, slow heart rate, dry flaky skin, weight gain. Sometimes there are no symptoms and disease is found by chance.

If you have any cause for concern, the first port of call is your GP who will then refer you for tests and then you can ask for an appointment with Mr Jeddy at Spire Hartswood.

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