[at-l] Iodine/hypothyroidism

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

I know. Initially, you _may_ have had a bit of hyperthyroidism, or at least 
elevated blood levels of T3 and T4, when you first had inflammation 
attacking your thyroid follicles. Now, following the inflammation, you 
essentially have a thyroidectomy completed by nature - without a visible 
scar. You have to take replacement thyroid, and periodically worry about 
the consistency of Synthroid and the generics. Sinse you are not producing 
thyroid on your own, I don't understand your doctor's advice against 
iodized salt, as I doubt it matters for you anyway. You don't make thyroid 
hormone, hence you don't need or store iodide.

But back to the trail issue, the worry about iodine water treatments is 
pretty much overdone. If you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, you are going to 
get ill and need treatment regardless of how or where you treat your water. 
If you have certain allergies to iodinated dyes, you probably should avoid 
iodine treatments. If you are filtering your water, you don't have much 
realistic need for additional iodine (as in purifiers) in North America. 
Iodine remains a reasonable backup to use for water purification and first 
aid cleansing of wounds.

OrangeBug

At 07:16 AM 3/29/2002 -0500, kellywin@earthlink.net wrote:
>--I didn't have hyper, just hypo. Doctor advised against using iodine for
>anything, including iodized salt, and I'm on synthroid now and doing great.
>I'll stick to the non-iodine filter and leave PolarPure for the lucky folks
>who can take it without problems.