In that stories about adrenal insufficiency many more interesting things.
If the adrenal glands are not working well, there will be little cortisol in the blood. In addition to being anti-inflammatory, cortisol helps to properly respond to stress, retains water and sodium, it also disrupts the absorption of calcium in the intestine and vigorously expels calcium through kidneys.
It would be logical to assume that if the adrenal glands do not work well, then there will be more calcium in the blood.
In our body, there are often situations when there is a lot of calcium in the blood. But with adrenal insufficiency, this excess calcium can manifest itself in bizarre ways.
We have already discussed with you that the adrenal glands can work poorly if they themselves are damaged, or if the pituitary gland does not secrete the necessary regulating hormones, or if the hypothalamus (which sits like a boss above the pituitary gland) does not perform well its official duties.
It is clear that when a person has adrenal insufficiency, not only the adrenal glands themselves are examined, but also the head, into which we have a pituitary gland with a hypothalamus.
And now, on the X-ray images of the head of such people, ears began to be noticed. And that's not entirely normal, because the ears are usually transparent to X-rays. And here we literally got pictures of a skull with cute ears.
It turned out that in men with long-standing adrenal insufficiency, calcium is deposited in the cartilage of the auricles.
So until now, they have not figured out why this happens, and why only in men.
It seems that episodes of ear frostbite in the past or trauma still play a role.
In any case, this does not go away and we have to live with such ears further.
