Sarah Milewicz's First Blog. Wed. March 3rd, 2010 3/3

Review of class

• Quiz 1 on the endocrine system
• Marked quiz
• Unit exam on endocrine system Wed. March 10
• Looked at more ES diploma style questions
• Went over notes sheet about hormones that affect water and ion balance
• Received another handout about our body`s reaction to stress

Thoughts about the material

We looked the other day at how things can go wrong with your endocrine system.  If there is too much of one hormone produced or too little.  I was wondering how often it occurred that people had too much or too little of a certain hormone, specifically TSH because we`ve been looking at goiters and other symptoms associated with an under or over active thyroid.

Above and Beyond

I found on http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/underactive_thyroid.html that about 19 in every 1,000 women and 1 in 1,000 men in the UK, will develop hypothyroidism at some point in their lives and on http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/overactive_thyroid.html i found out that about one in 500 men and one in 50 women in the UK, will develop hyperthyroidism at some point in their lives.  Hyperthyroidism seems to be more common to happen than hypothyroidism, but neither seem to be too common excpet for hyperthyroidism in women.