Re: Sea Salt - iodine allergy

[Guest guest]

> I am allergic to .. iodine. So sea salts can give me a double

> allergy whammy.

> Curious that the Celtic salt contains iodine at iodized salt levels

> though.

>

I read somewhere that people *cannot* have allergies to iodine, as

it's simply an element. What they can have is allergies to various

proteins that contain it - I think it might have mentioned the iodine

carrier proteins. Val, what do you know about iodine allergy?

Jim

[Guest guest]

I know nothing about iodine allergy. I used to think I was sensitive to

it as even iodized salt gave me the runs and headaches. I now think it

was the aluminum in it.

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[Guest guest]

Not Val, but iodine is essential to life, one cannot live without it. Thyroxine

is produced by

attaching iodine atoms to the ring structures of tyrosine molecules.

Thyroxine(T4) contains

four iodine atoms. Triiodothyronine(T3) is identical to T4, but it has one less

iodine atom per

molecule. The reaction to proteins is what I've read and heard about also.

Linn

> I read somewhere that people *cannot* have allergies to iodine, as

> it's simply an element. What they can have is allergies to various

> proteins that contain it - I think it might have mentioned the iodine

> carrier proteins. Val, what do you know about iodine allergy?

>

> Jim

>