Liquid levothyroxine for breakfast: new life for those suffering from hypothyroidism

The deficiency of thyroid hormones (and the related slowing of metabolism) is the cause of the pathology called hypothyroidism.
There can be many reasons why thyroid cells fail to produce enough hormones, the most common being: autoimmune diseases, surgical removal of the thyroid, congenital hypothyroidism, and radiation.

How to tell if you have hypothyroidism

When the levels of thyroid hormones are too low, the cells of the body cannot receive sufficient stimuli and some physiological processes begin to slow down and, as a result, you are likely to feel colder, get tired more easily, your skin becomes drier and you start to suffer from constipation.
But since the symptoms are quite variable, the only way to know for sure if you suffer from it is to do blood tests.

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Hypothyroidism: the cure

The reference drug, for the treatment of hypothyroidism, is levothyroxine, a substance practically identical to the natural thyroid hormone, which thanks to the action of deiodinase is transformed into the active hormone, triiodothyronine (T3).
Levothyroxine is one of the most popular drugs in the world, and until now it was almost exclusively prescribed in tablet form.

But levothyroxine can also be taken in liquid solution, with many advantages!
The good news comes from the results of three new Italian studies which definitively confirm the possibility for patients to take levothyroxine in liquid form even together with breakfast, even putting it directly in juice or coffee, without compromising in any way the therapeutic efficacy of the drug.

The results of these studies could agree endocrinologists and patients who, as revealed by a DoxaPharma survey, highlight how the critical element of hypothyroidism therapy is precisely the imposition of that pause between the intake of levothyroxine. and breakfast, which anticipates awakening and slows down the start of the day.

This means that you will no longer have to set the alarm an hour earlier to take the drug correctly, but you can do it at the same time - and comfortably - at breakfast.

And, in addition to this great practical advantage, as emphasized by Prof. Puxeddu, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, liquid levothyroxine also has undoubted benefits from the point of view of absorption.
Being already in liquid form, it does not require intermediate steps and therefore the drug can reach the absorption sites more quickly, making the latter more stable and less influenced by other variables (food, drugs, food intolerances, other diseases, etc. ).