resulted in really high levels of iodine in a particular batch, and I definitely had one patient who went hyperthyroid due to her intake of Bonsoy. That has since been reformulated but at the time it triggered a class action. So, food really does make a difference as well.
Emma: What are the symptoms of iodine deficiency that you see in clinic? What would be, say, your top five symptoms that we need to keep in mind?
Miranda: Okay. So, when we think of the typical sluggish thyroid picture, we always tend to go to unexplained weight gain, cold sensitivity, hair loss and all of those really typical symptoms.
But if there are signs of PCOS or fibrocystic breast disease, they are really definitive indicators of an iodine deficiency. Then we also have also have things like dry mouth, dry eyes, dry skin, poor sweating, reduced alertness, scar tissues, any sort of scar tissue, fibrosis, obviously low T4 clinically if we ' re looking at bloods, and then a swollen thyroid, because of course the thyroid gland expands to try to pick up as much iodine as it can when the iodine is low. This is where you can get that swollen thyroid or a goitre going on.
Emma: And what are some clinical white flags for iodine insufficiency that we can keep in mind?
Miranda: One is particularly a low end of T4: I ' m thinking about an iodine deficiency when T4 gets below 14. Some people pick it up at below 12, but I ' m already starting to think about it if it ' s lower than 14. And that ' s because in a Western society where we have iodised salts and iodine-supplemented bread and most of the population is eating those things the T4 bar should be higher.
So, if a new patient comes to me with low T4, I ' m thinking, " It shouldn ' t be the case. It really shouldn ' t be the case." Of course, some patients may not have had T4 tested. So, I ' m looking for that increase in TSH( thyroid-stimulating hormone) as well, remembering that if TSH is going up, then T4 or T3 are going down, and that ' s a white flag for me as well, seeing that raised TSH means something is happening at the clinical or subclinical level with your T3 and T4, so that ' s definitely a flag for me.
Basal body temperature, particularly in the luteal phase, if I see it below 36.3, is another flag for me. I know lots of people pick it up at 36.1, but I ' m alert to your basal body temperature dropping below 36.3 consistently in the luteal phase. Basal body
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