The treatment has regimens that must be respected and can be challenging for pregnant women, children, the elderly, especially those who live alone: the medication must be used on an empty stomach and without other medication or food, just with water. You still need to wait 30 minutes to eat your first meal.
The good news is that, if you have difficulty maintaining this routine, you can speak to your doctor so that he or she can devise another strategy that better adapts to your daily life.
Sources: Luiz Carlos Conti de Freitasprofessor at the Department of Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at FMRP-USP (Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto at USP), and head of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Outpatient Clinic at the same institution; Raquel Ajub Moyseshead and neck surgeon, is responsible for the Medical Research Laboratory in Head and Neck Surgery at FMUSP (USP Faculty of Medicine), has a PhD in clinical surgery from the same institution and a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University; Rosalia do Prado Padovani, endocrinologist, doctor in endocrinology from Unifesp, assistant physician at the Endocrinology Service of Santa Casa de São Paulo, instructor professor at the same institution. She is also director of SBEM-SP (Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabology Regional São Paulo); It is Uirá Curyhead and neck surgeon at HUAC-UFCG (Alcides Carneiro University Hospital of the Federal University of Campina Grande), which is part of the Ebserh network (Brazilian Hospital Services Company). Technical review: Luiz Carlos Conti de Freitas and Raquel Ajub Moyses.
References: Ministry of Health; SBEM (Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism), American Thyroid Association; Biello A, Kinberg EC, Wirtz ED. Thyroidectomy. [Atualizado em 2022 Nov 14]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563279/.
