Kathmandu, May 22 -- year-old woman from Arun Khola of Nawalparasi East was rushed to Bir Hospital after her health condition seriously deteriorated. Doctors attending her said that the woman had become too weak and too lean. She was so thin that veins popped up in her arms. Pulse rate could be felt when fingers were placed on her wrist.

"The woman complained that she felt hungry all the time," said Dr Dipak Malla, a senior consultant endocrinologist at Bir Hospital. "Despite eating heavily, however, she had lost significant weight. Her eyes were bulging, red and constantly tearing up. She also had visible swelling in the neck and goitre."

Tests showed excessively high levels of T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine), and critically l...