It also helps to
treat goiter (an enlarged thyroid gland).
Salt was iodized as an inexpensive and easy way to prevent and
treat goiters, and the practice quickly spread to other places in the US and Canada where goiters were common, and iodized salt is still used to this day.
Not exact matches
Synthroid is used for
treating low thyroid hormone levels and certain types of
goiters.
The growth of thyroid and
goiter cancer cells slowed if they were
treated with indole -3-carbinol and diindolylmethane (DIM), another sulphur - containing substance in broccoli.
It can also be used to suppress or
treat some types of
goiters like chronic or sub acute lymphocytic thyroiditis or otherwise known as Hashimoto's disease, multinodular kind of
goiter, thyroid nodules and management of thyroid cancer.
• Thyroid irradiated by mistake by a doctor
treating a nasal polyp and adenoid regrowth when I was 10 y.o. • Early 20s: multi-nodular
goiter with hyperplasia, hypothyroid, treatment was thyroid suppression with Synthroid.