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18 years
Can allergy medications cause this?
Aug 13, 2014

Dr. Rania Mousa General Medicine
The condition is more common in women than in men, and its incidence increases with age.

Below is a list of some of the common causes of hypothyroidism in adults followed by a discussion of these conditions.

Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Lymphocytic thyroiditis (which may occur after hyperthyroidism)
Thyroid destruction (from radioactive iodine or surgery)
Pituitary or hypothalamic disease
Medications
Severe iodine deficiency
these are the medications probably causing hypothyroidism
>Medications that are used to treat an over-active thyroid (hyperthyroidism) may actually cause hypothyroidism. These drugs include methimazole (Tapazole) and propylthiouracil (PTU). The psychiatric medication, lithium (Eskalith, Lithobid), is also known to alter thyroid function and cause hypothyroidism. Interestingly, drugs containing a large amount of iodine such as amiodarone (Cordarone), potassium iodide (SSKI, Pima), and Lugol's solution can cause changes in thyroid function, which may result in low blood levels of thyroid hormone

however allergy medications can affect the thyroid tablets function and not cause hypothyroidism
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