L-Thyroxine is being prescribed for lazy or hypothyroidism patients mostly as a single dose taken daily in empty stomach but new research says it combined seven days dose taken once a week is as good as once daily dose and it also treats many refractile or unresponsive patients. Once weekly L-thyroxine replacement was well tolerated and there was no indication of acute toxicity or hypothyroidism symptoms compared with daily therapy," according to researchers MD and MD, of Park Hospital in Gurgaon, India. While, U.S. endocrinologists who reviewed the findings say, in general, they still prefer daily dosing.
In the new research, the doctors evaluated 40 women, ages 25 to 55, who had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism for at least five years and were on a daily dose of levothyroxine. They assigned them to two groups. One group had thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels viewed as in the…
