Beth Ann Ditkoff, M.D., and Paul Lo Gerfo, M.D., two leading thyroid surgeons, identify the common symptoms of thyroid disease--weight gain or loss, fatigue, nervousness, and sleeplessness--and provide advice on diagnostic tests, treatments, medications, and self-help strategies.

Every person with thyroid disease can be helped with proper diagnosis and treatment. Most thyroid problems are chronic, so patients need information to cope with a disease that will likely be with them for life. This authoritative, easy-to-use book helps them understand their conditions and gives them the knowledge they need to manage their medications and symptoms. Drs. Ditkoff and Lo Gerfo are clinicians and researchers who have successfully treated thousands of patients.

• More than twenty million people currently receive treatment for thyroid problems

• An estimated two million people have an undiagnosed thyroid condition

• At least 10 percent of women over the age of sixty will show evidence of underactive thyroid

• In women of childbearing age, thyroid dysfunction can cause menstrual problems, infertility, and miscarriage

• An underactive thyroid can cause sexual dysfunction

• Eight percent of pregnant women develop thyroid disease, which is often misdiagnosed as postpartum depression

• The majority of thyroid disease affects women

Ever wondered what that small dewdrop thing is in the back of your throat? Or why you have hair in your nose? "Why Don't Your Eyelashes Grow?" addresses every weird question about your body that you could think of - or didn't even think to ask. Prompted by the brain stumpers her own children and young patients have asked her over the years, Dr. Beth Ann Ditkoff compiled a list of curious medical questions. In this book, she reveals the mysteries of the human body (gross, funny or ugly!) to children and adults. With eye-opening questions, like 'Why do toenails grow slower than fingernails?' and 'Why do old people have wrinkles?' to weird oddities, like 'Why do some people have dimples?' and 'What are warts?', Ditkoff explains hilarious and bizarre anatomy 'situations' that every curious kid wonders. With expert explanations throughout, "Why Don't Your Eyelashes Grow?" is an entertaining potpourri of fun factoids packed with real information.