Today, I saw a piece of news with the headline “The mother of the second child suffers from hyperthyroidism by believing in folk prescription kelp as food for her son”.
Because I believe that eating more kelp can make my body alkaline and easy to give birth to boys. Therefore, I eat kelp almost every day.
I don’t know whether the baby in my belly has become a boy, but I have changed myself into hyperthyroidism first!
Alkaline constitution is more likely to give birth to boys?
There is a widespread saying among the people that alkaline constitution is easy to give birth to boys. It is believed that alkaline environment is more conducive to the survival of [Y] sperm that gives birth to boys.
Therefore, some women flush their vaginas with alkaline solution after the [human-making operation] is completed, believing that this can reduce the activity of X sperm and thus improve the fertilization chance of Y sperm.
There are also some women who drink lemonade, soda water and other [alkaline] water before preparing for pregnancy, believing that drinking alkaline water or eating alkaline food can make the body, especially the reproductive tract, more alkaline, which is conducive to Y sperm fertilization.
Acid and alkali constitution itself is a pseudo concept, the normal acid and alkali value of the human body is between 7.35 and 7.45, which is weakly alkaline. This value can fluctuate in a small range, but too high or too low will lead to body abnormalities. Even if you eat the so-called acid and alkali food on your diet, you cannot change the normal acid and alkali value of the human body.
In addition, the normal acid-base value of the vagina is 3.8 ~ 4.4, which is slightly acidic. Flushing the vagina with alkaline liquid will lead to changes in the normal environment of the vagina and artificially lead to the breeding of diseases.
To get back to the point, let’s talk about something related to thyroid gland.
Do you eat too much kelp and have hyperthyroidism?
Let’s review the causes of hyperthyroidism first.
The causes of hyperthyroidism include Graves’ disease, polynodular goiter with hyperthyroidism (toxic polynodular goiter), thyroid autonomous high-function adenoma, iodine hyperthyroidism, pituitary hyperthyroidism, and chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)-related hyperthyroidism.
Graves’ disease is the most common, accounting for about 85% of all hyperthyroidism.
1. Excessive iodine induces hyperthyroidism
This mother is likely to have iodine hyperthyroidism, which is induced by a large amount of iodine intake.
Kelp is rich in iodine. Every 100g of fresh kelp contains about 110 micrograms of iodine, while the daily iodine intake of normal people is recommended to be 150-300 micrograms. In addition to the iodine intake in salt, the intake of iodine is 120-180 micrograms based on the standard of 6g of daily salt intake.
A simple calculation shows that the daily consumption of salt +100g of kelp has reached the upper limit of the recommended iodine amount on that day, which does not include some sporadic iodine content in other foods.
Moreover, it is estimated that the mother of the second child eats more than 100g of kelp a day, which may be the cause of hyperthyroidism under this long-term [iodine excess].
2. Pregnancy-induced hyperthyroidism
Apart from the cause of [iodine], the mother also has a possible cause related to hyperthyroidism: chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)-related hyperthyroidism, which is mostly related to pregnancy.
After pregnancy, the pregnant woman will produce a hormone [chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)], and the early pregnancy test paper is to judge whether she is pregnant by detecting the existence of this hormone.
This hormone has the function of simulating thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which can stimulate more thyroid hormone secretion and increase thyroid hormone level.
Even so, most pregnant women can keep the thyroid hormone level within the normal reference value during pregnancy, but 2% ~ 3% of pregnant women may exceed the normal reference value and become hyperthyroidism.
In short, the result is that under the influence of many factors, the mother was finally [hyperthyroidism].