Please could someone explain NDT Thank you - Thyroid UK
Please could someone explain NDT Thank you
NDT is an abbreviation for 'natural desiccated thyroid'.
Wikipedia has a useful article about desiccated thyroid. If it doesn't cover what you want to know, then ask specific questions here and someone will attempt to answer.
Natural Dessicated Thyroid was used up until levothyroxine (a synthetic hormone) was introduced I think around 1960, together with the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone blood test (TSH).
Before that people were diagnosed on clinical symptoms and prescribed NDT.
Nowadays, you may get a TSH test (I didn't) and prescribed the generic hormone levothyroxine. Unless your TSH falls within a certain range you will not be prescribed even if you have clinical symptoms and so new diseases were eventually named, chronic fatigue, ME, fibromyalgia.
Levothyroxine works for many but not everyone and the guidelines to the GP's by the British Thyroid Association and the Royal College of Physicians is that levothyroxine is the preferred treatment.
They have made false statements about the therapeutic value of NDT, despite being in use since, I believe, about 1891. NDT is more expensive than the approx £1.50 for levothyroxine.
If you are not feeling well on levothyroxine, you are told it is nothing to do with your thyroid and that your blood levels are fine and probably prescribed other products to try to relieve remaining symptoms.
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