RE:help for friend..first batch

[Guest guest]

Thanks Holly for the reference to the archives. I'll see if I can find

that.

Pam...good idea to shield whenever you can, but with cancer radiation

treatments they are directing it where they want it... I have had to

make a fuss at mammograms and such for a thyroid shield, but my dentists

know to always protect me.

Simon...thanks much. I do hope she will run whatever she does past the

radiologists.

> If the radiation exposure is not in the form of radioactive

> Iodine, which I assume is what we are discussing, then I don't

> think kelp (or other Iodine rich foods) will help, and they

> might disrupt normal thyroid hormone production if eaten in

> excess.

>

This was my thought too...and Terry seems also to be thinking in these

terms.

Well, dear first wave of responders, thank you all.

Jeannette