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What are causes of high platelet count and high calcium and abnormal parathyroid?
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I have elevated platelet level, high calcium level, increased lymph node activity, severe fatigue, hair loss, difficulty in flooding weight, and wide spread pain. I am negative for Lupus and thyroid disease. I am on low sodium diet and stick to it. I have one kidney. I can't remember the last time I felt good. What could cause this? My Dr is frustrated....so am I.
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What hormone stimulates the release of calcium?
the parathyroid hormone (PTH) is released by the parathyroid gland (located behind the thyroid gland). A decrease in blood calcium causes the parathyroid gland to secrete PTH which causes the bones to release more calcium to raise blood calcium and also causes the kidneys to decrease the amount of calcium lost in urine
What would cause depressed levels of calcium after a thyroidectomy?
The parathyroid glands are located behind the thyroid gland and are often accidentally removed with the thyroid in a thyroidectomy. The parathyroid gland makes parathyroid hormone (PTH), which normally causes an increase in blood calcium levels. If the parathyroid is lost, so is the PTH, and thus the blood calcium is lower.
The hormone that has the opposite function of calcitonin is?
parathyroid hormone. it causes calcium to be released into the blood.
How does the thyroid gland effect calcium regulation?
"The amount of calcium in the blood is regulated by two organs: thyroid and parathyroid glands. Each gland produces hormones by sensing the amount of calcium in the blood. When calcium is high in the blood, the thyroid gland produces calcitonin, which results in the removal of excess calcium from the blood. When calcium is low in the blood, the parathyroid gland produces parathyroid hormone, which causes the release of calcium from bone into the blood."
What parathyroid hormone increases serum calcium levels?
PTH activates vitamin D in the body, which absorbs calcium and phosphate from foods. It works on the intestine to increase the absorption of calcium. It causes the bones to release more calcium, and causes the kidneys to reabsorb more calcium. This all helps to increase calcium levels.
What hormones released by parathyroid gland?
The function of the parathyroid glands is to secrete parathyroid hormone, which causes the release of the calcium present in bone to extracellular fluid (ECF). The ECF is the fluid found outside cells in all body tissues. PTH does this by activating the production of osteoblasts, special cells of the body involved in the production of bone and slowing down osteoclasts, other specialized cells involved in the removal of bone.
How does calcitonin and parathroid hormones work to control blood calcium levels and what are their targets?
Calcitonin is the other major hormone involved with calcium regulation. Parathyroid hormone (PTH), produced by the parathyroid gland, increases the level of calcium in the blood. It usually accomplishes this by increasing the resorption rate (taking back) from bone. Calcitonin does the exact opposite and reduces calcium in the blood. Calcitonin is produce in the thyroid gland and removes calcium in the blood primarily by putting calcium back into bone.
What chemical causes a decrease in the blood calcium level?
The parathyroid glands (4 of them) secrete parathyroid hormone to increase blood calcium. When the parathyroid glands detect low blood calcium levels, they secrete more parathyroid hormone, which causes the bones to release calcium to the bloodstream, thereby increasing blood calcium levels.
Which hormone stimulates osteoclasts in the raising of calcium levels in the blood?
If you are looking for the one hormone that does this, then the answer is parathyroid hormone (PTH), produced in the parathyroid glands.A more technical description is given below:Three hormones act in the body to increase blood calcium levels to normal. These hormones are 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol, parathyroid hormone (PTH), and calcitonin that originate respectively from the liver and kidneys, parathyroid glands, and thyroid glands. The first, 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol (active vitamin D3), serves to increase calcium absorption from the intestine. The second, PTH, dissolves bone into the blood. The third, calcitonin, prevents the bone-derived calcium from being resorbed ("reabsorbed") into the bone from which it came via PTH. To summarize, these three hormones act in concert to raise calcium levels via external and internal routes.References: Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 23eKim E. Barrett, et. al. Chapter 23: Hormonal Control of Calcium & Phosphate Metabolism & the Physiology of Bone
What do you suffer from in hypoparathyroidsm?
Hypoparathyroidsm is a condition in which the parathyroid gland is producing less hormone than its normal physiological level. There two pairs of parathyroid glands situated in the neck on the posterior(back) of the thyroid gland. There are minute and is almost impossible to see in the cadaver. The parathyroid glands secrete only one hormone, which is Parathyroid hormone, which is responsible for maintaining normal serum calcium levels (i.e calcium in the blood) which is around 10mg/dl. Calcium is responsible for, blood clot formation, Bone formation, Muscle contraction, nerve functions, hence all these are affected when calcium levels are abnormal. PTH (parathyroid hormone) acts so as to raise calcium levels, by increase bone breakdown (resorption) therefore releasing calcium in the blood, increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, or decreasing excretion of calcium by the kidney. Hence less PTH produced ultimately means there is low calcium in the blood. Hence muscles are going to be affected, with hyperreflexia, muscular spasms, muscular cramps and a charecteristic carpopedal tremor, in which the hands and feet shake (doctors call this the trousseau sign.) Nerves are affected, and the patient feels pins and needles. Causes vary, but are mainly as a complication of thyroidectomy (removal of the thyroid gland) due to overactivity of the gland such as in graves' disease. In this case, the surgeon removes the thyroid glands and unwantingly, removes the parathyroid glands, hence there is no parathyroid gland to secrete parathyroid hormone. This is usually treated by oral calcium supplementation with vitamin D. The logic behind this is that Vitamin D stimulated calcium uptake in the intestine. Resource : i'm a med student.
What hormone causes demineralization of bones spontaneous fractures could it be parathyroid hormone?
parathyroid hormone
What is the danger of having high blood calcium levels?
Hypercalcemia, high amounts of calcium in the blood, has symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, bone pain, dementia, and weakness. Hypercalcemia is commonly caused by improper function of the parathyroid glands.
