Iodine allergy question.

[kambuckta]

If you are allergic to iodine, should you avoid iodised salt?

[antechinus]

Can your immune system develop an immune response to something as simple at iodine? I doubt it.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

This website says don’t worry about it.

OhioHealth – Blog

Some people are sensitive to iodine-containing dyes used in some medical tests. But these dyes have a much higher concentration of iodine than you would find in iodized salt or foods.

Your body needs iodine to produce thyroid hormones. An iodine deficiency causes enlargement of the thyroid gland (goiter). Iodine naturally occurs in all foods but typically in just trace amounts. Because of the high risk of iodine deficiency, iodine has been added to salt since the 1920s. Iodine deficiencies are now extremely rare in the United States. Because all foods contain iodine, it would be impossible to go on an iodine-free diet.

So does this one.

http://www.daref.org/z3007.html

What you are allergic to is the form(s) of iodine you have been taking; not the substance itself. Iodine is necessary for certain physiologic functions. Without it, goiters will grow causing bulging necks!