Iodine salt?

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Hi,

In Sweden, you can get " jodsalt " , which is just normal salt but with added

iodine. I think most salt there is that kind, but I've never really had any

reason to think about it when I lived there.

As iodine is supposed to help with symptoms, I thought I'd pick some up iodine

salt from the supermarket (think it was Asda), but none of the salts they had

mentioned iodine. There was table salt, rock salt and sea salt.

So my question is, can you get iodine salt in the UK? If so, where should I

look? Supermarkets or health food stores or elsewhere? And if you can't get it,

does anyone know which salt type would have the highest natural levels? (If any

do, I'm not exactly a salt expert!)

When my mum was over for a visit, we both bought kelp from a health store, as

that's a natural source of iodine. Trying to see if that makes a difference now,

because at the moment, I'm completely exhausted for no real reason, but I still

haven't worked up the courage to go see my GP about hypothyroidism, as they

tested my blood specifically for that when I first signed up to that practice.

It was within the " normal levels " apparently ... just like when it was checked

in Sweden originally. Don't fancy going to the doctors only to be turned away

again because my blood says there's not an issue, even if my body says

otherwise, so just trying to self-medicate a bit.

Cheers,

Sofia