Re: Iodine is it too much or too little?

[Guest guest]

Carole, I am no doctor but with my Graves(no goitre)I have stopped

all iodine. I use salt without iodine. I was told you get daily

requirement of iodine in one piece of bread. Doctors in USA say diet

has no use. In Europe and Japan they use meds and diet. RAI last

resort. I was way over the line for Graves and now with med and no

iodine and reduced salt I am in remission after 6 months. I look at

all food labels and stay under 250mg. of salt on everything. Only

because I don't know which salt in products is iodized and which not.

I eat nuts and fruit and veggies especially goitrens. Broccoli,

cabbage, greens etc. I now eat tuna with reduced salt occasionally in

can. No salt water fish. Blueberries and other antitoxins. Maybe

someone with a goitre will come along. I think it is trial and error

to what works best for individual but I do believe religiously that

diet plays a huge role in Graves. It is in the family with diabetes

and diet is very important with it, I refuse to believe it is not so

with Graves. Sandy

> Hi

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> Does anyone know is it to much iodine or to little iodine if you

have a goitre with graves. My daughter has one and when she started

the medication we had been told it would get smaller and go away but

she has been on medication since Feb and it doesn't seem to be doing

anything.

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> Thank you for any replies in advance

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> Regard Carole

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[Guest guest]

Hi Carole,

goiter will persist if the ATD dose is too high or low since goiter occurs in

both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.

Iodine also aggravates goiter. Generally, people ingest too much. the typical

American diet provides 300-700 mcg iodine daily and diets with fast and

processed foods provide more than 1,000 mcg.

In those of us genetically susceptible to developing GD, amounts of iodine

greater than 150 mcg daily can precipitate symptoms. And sugar and saturated

fats promote immune system changes that lead to inflammation. It helps to avoid

them too. Best,Elaine

[Guest guest]

> Does anyone know is it to much iodine or to little iodine if you

> have a goitre with graves.

I see Elaine responded so what more can I add? Just that it took over a

year on ATDs for my thyroid to start shrinking, and it never went down to

normal size (assuming my normal is THE normal - no record of a baseline

thyroid size though I did have a TSH done a few years before my graves

started so I know what's normal for me).

I forgot how old your daughter is. If your making the health decisions

for her then she's definitely too young for RAI.

Take care, Fay

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