Can I have a baby if I have hyperthyroidism

Many women plan to get pregnant after getting married. Generally, during the pregnancy preparation period, women will go to the hospital for a pre-pregnancy check to see if their physical condition is suitable for pregnancy. If any disease is found, they can receive timely treatment and regulate their bodies to prepare for the arrival of the baby. Sometimes during a physical examination, it is discovered that a woman has hyperthyroidism. Can she have children if she has hyperthyroidism? Let’s learn about it together~

The full name of hyperthyroidism is hyperthyroidism, which is a disease caused by the thyroid gland releasing excessive thyroid hormone. It is often accompanied by many other complications, which seriously affect the patient's life and health.

1. Can women with hyperthyroidism have children?

Women with hyperthyroidism can become pregnant and have children, but they should not become pregnant before the hyperthyroidism is cured.

If hyperthyroidism is not well controlled, the miscarriage rate can be as high as 26% and the premature birth rate can be as high as 15%. At the same time, if there is a slight deviation in the drug treatment of hyperthyroidism, it can also cause fetal hyperthyroidism, fetal thyroid enlargement, or even fetal hypothyroidism, affecting the fetal brain development and easily causing miscarriage, premature birth, and stillbirth.

Pregnancy itself will inevitably increase the physical and mental burden on women, increase the circulatory burden, and increase the incidence of gestational hypertension by 10 times, affecting the recovery of hyperthyroidism, and even aggravating hyperthyroidism and inducing thyroid crisis, which is life-threatening.

Therefore, women with hyperthyroidism should not rush to get pregnant. They should first actively treat the hyperthyroidism and then consider pregnancy after the hyperthyroidism is cured.

Usually, antithyroid drug treatment takes at least 1.5 to 2 years to cure, and it is necessary to observe for about half a year after stopping the medication. If there is no sign of recurrence, you can consider pregnancy. If radioactive iodine is used to treat hyperthyroidism, pregnancy can be considered if thyroid function returns to normal six months later; if hyperthyroidism is treated surgically, pregnancy can be considered if there is no recurrence of the disease three months after the operation.

It is best for patients with hyperthyroidism to choose to get pregnant after the disease is cured, which is also for the health of the child. At the same time, patients with hyperthyroidism must persist in physical exercise for a long time, enhance their body's resistance, develop good eating habits, and avoid eating spicy and irritating foods.

2. Hyperthyroidism definitely has an impact on fertility, but the degree of impact varies depending on each person's physical condition and treatment situation.

1. First of all, hyperthyroidism will affect women's menstruation, cause menstrual disorders, even amenorrhea, irregular ovulation, and reduced fertility opportunities.

2. Patients with hyperthyroidism generally have experience with Western medicine treatment. Medicines generally have some side effects. Especially for women who become pregnant, if the hyperthyroidism is not treated properly, it is easy to have miscarriage, deformity, etc. Therefore, you must control hyperthyroidism before planning to have a child.

3. Hyperthyroidism can also cause a significant decrease in sperm quantity and quality in male patients.