Hormonal disorders can occur as polyglandular deficiency syndrome and usually have a genetic inheritance. Endocrine glands are a deficiency in which the endocrine glands produce smaller amounts of hormones than they should.
It is common for these hormonal disorders to begin with an autoimmune disease, infection, insufficient blood supply to the gland, or even a tumor.
- Usually.
- After one gland becomes damaged.
- Others reduce or stop its functioning.
- This is called multiple endocrine gland failure.
- To make a correct diagnosis.
- Blood tests may be used to check hormone production.
Treatment of such disorders is based on hormone replacement, as there is no cure. In the case of hypothyroidism, treatment will be thyroid hormone supplementation; If, for example, it is an individual with adrenal hypoactivity, treatment would be with corticosteroids; diabetes is treated with insulin and so on.