How do I know, if my children need iodine?

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They are 2.5 and 5.5 and both have severe emotional issues (in my opinion

anyway), bloating, issues with gut pathogens (the 2.5 year old has an active

parasite infection that we are treating naturally now, Dientamoeba Fragilis),

food sensitivities, etc.

I have had hair tests done on both and the iodine on my 2.5 year old is fairly

elevated and in our 5.5 year old, it's normal. Andy Cutler's book says that if

the essential elements are deranged and they meet the counting rules, you can't

trust the hair test for actual readings. So that would make my 5.5 year old's

test bogus, but not for the 2.5 year old. It would mean that his iodine levels

are accurate.

So my question is this, if his iodine is high, could it be causing the same

symptoms as low iodine or is there still a chance he needs it and should I give

both kids the iodine based on their clinical symptoms? I tried the patch test,

which I hear isn't really a good indication, but it disappeared pretty fast for

both, much faster for our 2.5 year old though. Our 5.5 year old kept it for at

least 5 hours, I think.

Is there anything else I should be looking for symptomatically and is it

recommended that we try iodine anyway or with either? I am hesitant to use it

with them, but it also sounds like their symptoms would benefit from it. How

would I know if by giving it to them, they wouldn't need it?