In many places, like Japan, people get iodine from seafood, seaweed, vegetables grown in iodine-rich soil or animals that eat grass grown in that soil.
Some of the added nutrients include iron, vitamin A, iodine and folic acid.
If iodine-131, which emits beta particles, is taken up, this can damage DNA and cause thyroid cancer.
To establish iodine status among pregnant women in rural northern Viet Nam and explore psychosocial predictors of the use of iodized salt in their households.
The 67 tests conducted in the northern Marshalls between 1946 and 1958 released radioactive iodine said to be 150 times worse than the contamination from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.
It smarts when iodine is put on a cut.
They say there is no need to use products like hydrogen peroxide or iodine.
Thus iodine deficiency, as the single greatest preventable cause of mental retardation, is an important public-health problem.
Five of their top ten involved nutrition: vitamin supplements for children, adding zinc and iodine to salt and breeding extra micronutrients into crops (like those sweet potatoes).
The nurse bathed his wound with iodine.
So he agreed to add an iodine drip into his salt grinder.
"The goiter is the visible manifestation" of iodine deficiency, says Richard Hanneman, President of the Salt Institute in Alexandria, Va.
As the rods heat up, their zirconium cladding can rupture, which releases gaseous radioactive iodine inside, and may even cause the uranium to melt and release much more radioactive material.
Iodine-deficient people may forfeit 15 IQ points, and nearly 50 million people suffer from some degree of iodine deficiency-related brain damage.
Of concern in the current situation is ionizing radiation, which is produced by spontaneously decaying heavy isotopes, such as iodine 131 and cesium 137.
Lack of iodine is a common cause of trouble.
Overheating fuel rods then discharge gaseous forms of certain volatile radioactive elements, including cesium, iodine, strontium and tellurium.
The patient lies back, hands behind their head as I clean each axilla with iodine.
But that was not before fishermen about 70km south of the plant had caught tiny sand-eels, known as konago, with larger than normal traces of radioactive iodine and caesium.
I think of how her brother's face was in his hospital bed, bruised under the bandages and stained with something like iodine.
Apply some iodine before you bandage.
It is particularly important that pregnant women receive enough iodine in their diet, as iodine is a key nutrient in the fetal development process, especially with respect to the brain.
The tincture of iodine smarted when applied it to the wound.
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