Description

• Title:
  Graves-Basedow disease treated by complementary medicine leading to severe thyrotoxicosis – a case report
• Creator:
  Sapuła, Klaudia;
  Gołacki, Jakub;
  Marczak, Aleksandra;
  Hordejuk, Michalina;
  Iwaszko-Sochal, Klaudyna
• Description:
  Graves' disease is a common cause of hyperthyroidism. Inadequate treatment or non-compliance can lead to serious complications, including thyroid storm.  We present the case of a 22-year-old woman who had been treated with antithyroid drugs (ATD) for almost 7 years, however decided to suspend conventional treatment and turned towards complementary and alternative medicine methods. Following the bioenergotherapist's advice, she began taking Lugol’s solution (LS) at a dose of 30 drops per day. After about one month of such therapy, the patient was urgently admitted to the Emergency Department with thyrotoxicosis with a high risk of thyroid storm development. With the implementation of intensive thyrostatic treatment and steroid therapy, euthyroidism was successfully restored.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Klaudia Sapuła, Jakub Gołacki, Aleksandra Marczak, Michalina Hordejuk, Klaudyna Iwaszko-Sochal
• Date:
  2022.07.04
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Journal of Education, Health and Sport; Vol. 12 No. 7 (2022); 340-346;
  Journal of Education, Health and Sport; Tom 12 Nr 7 (2022); 340-346;
  2391-8306
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/38943/32652
• Subject:
  thyrotoxicosis;
  Lugol's solution;
  non-compliance;
  complementary and alternative medicine
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/38943
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text