date:Aug 01, 2012
The research paper published in theJournal of Pediatrics describes three infants who developed thyroid hormone deficiency (known as congenital hypothyroidism) as a result of excess maternal iodine supplementation.
Dr Kara Connelly of Oregon Health Science University, USA, and colleagues reveal the details of three infants with congenital hypothyroidism whose mothers had taken 12.5 mg of iodine daily more than 11 times the safe upper limit while pregnant and/or breastfeeding.
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