Goitre and povidone topical iodine

[Newcastle2013]

Just wondering if any of you who have/had goitres also had ever used topical iodine to cleanse wounds?

[Hibs1]

Not recently but when I was a child iodine was used in me all the time, don't know if that's what you mean though!

[Newcastle2013 in reply to Hibs1]

Do you have a goitre?

Yeah, I read somewhere that povidone iodine could cause a goitre and wondered how true it was.

I broke a few bones, they were pinned and I had iodine applied to the pin sites. 3-years after I developed a goitre.....that was 20plus years ago and I'm curious to the cause as there is no family history of overactive or goitre.

Thanks x

[Hibs1 in reply to Newcastle2013]

Yes I do and nodules

[Angel_of_the_North]

I use lugols iodine on wounds like cat scratches. I don't think you can get the old iodine BP (that we used to use years ago) in the UK any more. But povidone iodine is a different animal - I wouldn't feel happy using anything that began with "polyvinyl". No goiter, just hypo.

[serenfach]

They have stopped using iodine on new born navels in the USA as they thought it could later lead to problems.

My mother was a nurse and used to swamp us in iodine at the first opportunity! I now use it in lambing but am careful to wear gloves as I have become very sensitive to it and come up in blisters following a contrast scan.

[Newcastle2013 in reply to serenfach]

Interesting, thank youc