I have Hashimoto's disease, meaning basically I have no functioning thyroid. Someone told me recently that they thought I was either not supposed to have iodine, or I was deliberately supposed to have iodine, because of this. The doc never said anything about it. I take a multivitamin with iodine in it, and use iodized salt on occasion. Should I be concerned?
cbrdgt.
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I was just talking to my Endocrinologist about iodine. First of all, it's pretty much impossible to not get iodine, it's everywhere in food. Next, even though your thyroid doesn't work (I have no thyroid), you would probably be fine if you had no iodine, but you are fine eating iodine (it does do things for other parts of the body). You should ask your doctor about the multivitamin question, I don't know the answer to that. It is fine to use iodized salt or sea salt from time to time, but you are also fine using kosher salt (has no iodine). Hope this helps!
Anonymous
The thyroid uses iodine, but even if yours doesn't, a little in moderation won't harm you. (The salt will harm you a lot sooner than the iodine will - if you're not taking too much salt, you're not taking too much iodine.)
David B
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