goiter max torrents iodine (i) deficiency: goiter 8a science january 10 th 2014
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Goiter
Max Torrents
IODINE (I) DEFICIENCY: GOITER
8A Science
January 10th 2014
HISTORY AND DISCOVERY OF IODINEa VERY LUCKY discovery
In 1811 Bernard Courtois (french) discovered
make gun powder for Napoleon
Seaweed ashes….sulfer
acid
a purple vapor cloud….. Iodine
Jean Lugoi (scientist) discovered that iodine + potassium made iodine liquid -1814
Jean Condet (Swiss) discovered that iodine could reduce Goiters 1821
WHY DO PEOPLE NEED IODINE• Iodine – needed to make T3 and T4 hormone
• Energy
• Temperature
• helps you grow right
• When iodine is deficient---so the brain tries to get the thyroid to produce more hormones and the thyroid grows
SYMPTOMS• 1. thyroid grows
• 2. goiter is produced
• 3. fatigue, you get cold easily, stupid, puffiness can’t poop, dry skin)
• 4. depression
• 5. get Graves disease
Infants can be born mentally retarded, deaf and it will be hard to walk right
Grave’s disease
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DISORDER• Big lump
• the goiter makes the person cough a lot, Hard to breath/swallow/talk, and be irritable
• Really big goiters give you weight loss and hard to sleep
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
• 1. The doctor might feel the goiter in your neck
• 2. blood test to see hormone levels
• 3. thyroid scan like an x-ray
• 4. a biopsy
INCIDENCE OF DISORDER• :
• Iodine deficiency= 13% of worlds population
• (2002) 1 death per million people per year
• Poor countries have more goiters
• Western country put iodine in their salt
WHERE THEY HAVE IODINE DEFICIENCY
Countries are sized in relation to the number of people who died of iodine deficiency In one year
TREATMENTS/CURES• The main treatment for iodine deficiency is avoiding it in the first place.
• iodized salt has greatly reduced the occurrence of iodine deficiency in the United States
• You can get surgery if it is to big and you can take iodine pills if its small
• Goiter can leave scars (if u get surgery)
WHAT RESEARCH IS CURRENTLY BEING DONE • what happens if you take TOO much iodine.
• iodine and pregnancy and iodine and babies
If a baby is iodine deficient its called Cretinism
ORGANIZATIONS1. www.schoolsandhealth.org/pages/iodine.aspx - its all about learning about Health and iodine
2. www.unisef.org - they have a whole page about iodine
BIBLIOGRAPHY www.localhealth.com/article/iodine-deficiency
http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/iodine.htm
http://www.localhealth.com/article/iodine-deficiency/treatments
www.schoolsandhealth.org/pages/iodine.aspx
www.unisef.org
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