
Can Total Thyroidectomy Affect The Results Of A Blood Alcohol Level Reading?

It has been described that thyroid hormones affect the metabolism of Alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme involved in metabolizing or removing alcohol from the body. The results of the blood alcohol levels readings can actually be grossly altered by this surgery. Most thyroid hormones (T3 and T4) reduce the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase. In patients with post with a post total thyroidectomy state therefore, we can have most of the time false negative blood alcohol levels or decreased blood alcohol levels since this enzyme is not adequately inhibited as normal. In some cases, when the amount of thyroid replacement therapy becomes excessive or higher, this enzyme is excessively inhibited, and we have excess or false positive blood alcohol levels.
This has been sufficiently described in scientific and clinical medicine literature.
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There is a clearly interaction between thyroid hormones and alcohol metabolism. If you read up the endocrinology section in Davidson s Principles of XXXXXXX medicine and XXXXXXX s Textbook of XXXXXXX Medicine/. There is an alteration in alcohol metabolism, in which direction remains the exact question. But there is.
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Could you please check on the web site of the American ASsociation of family physicians(AAFP) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Read on thyroid disorders and testing. You should have more insight.
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