Sentences with phrase «where goiter»

I came accross a couple of studies where goiter prevalence varied three-fold in neighboring villages with the same iodine & selenium status and presumably similar diets — its a bit bewildering, and I wouldn't be surprised if the major contribution was by viral infection or autoimmune disorder, with iodine, selenium, and thiocyanates making underlying disorders visible.

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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We have been reading guidebooks to the area, and in one we have come across this bleak paragraph: «In the past, Savoie was considered a poor region, where the living was hard and where the people were rough in manners and lacking in culture, and often suffered from goiters from drinking snow water.

Iodine Source: Seaweed, milk from cows grazed on iodine - rich coastal soil Effects of deficiency: Blindness, mental impairment, goiter Who's at risk: People living in mountainous areas (the Rockies, the Alps, and the Andes), where iodine has been washed away by glaciation and flooding, or in lowland regions far from the oceans (Central Africa and Eastern Europe) Fortification options: Salt Estimated millions of people affected: 740

The term goiter refers to any situation where your thyroid gland has become abnormally enlarged.

Butter consumption prevents goiter in mountainous areas where seafood is not available.

I was diagnosed 30 years a go whit hashimoto desiase now I fell tyre the all time I have you book they take me off levotiroxine they now put me back on 25 milligrams again I have depression insomnia brain fog, Gi issues bloated the all year constipation I don't now where the go no more?I live in Fl now before I leave in Germany they say everything it's normal I have a goiter what I suppose to do?