Sentences with phrase «treat goiter»

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.

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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.
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