Michele - Re: LID Question - butter?

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Alisa

Any chance of a synopsis of Dr Lee's talk, or at least your recollections

please?

Ian

> Perhaps. One of the frustrating things about thyca is that there are

> SO many conflicting ideas and methods of doing things.

>

> Dr Lee spoke at the conference, and she now allows her

> patients to have a LOT of things that are not on the Thyca LID. And

> there are LIDs that even allow milk and other dairy products in small

> quantities. Some attempt to give you a list (really not very

> effective) of iodine contents of different items and let you choose

> whatever you want as long as you stick to about 50mcg. I suppose it's

> a matter of how strict you want to be. When I give advice on the LID,

> I'd rather err on the side of following it too strictly.

>

> Certainly, there's a difference between using a half tsp of that

> margerine once a day vs putting it on all sorts of things all day

> long, or using a cup of it to make a cake that you eat that day :-).

>

> Keep in mind that LOTS of things that are listed on the LID do have

> iodine in varying amounts, so even that's not a no iodine diet.

>

> Actually, the problem with soy is not just that it can contain iodine,

> but that it blocks the uptake of iodine - so can block the uptake of

> RAI. I tried to be pretty strict on the LID, figuring that it's only

> for a few weeks, and I'd rather have as much uptake as possible.

>

> In any case, if I was going to have things that were questionable, I'd

> at least avoid them the last 4 days or so before the dose.

>

> Cheers,

> Alisa (still smiling at the " government bureaucrat emerging " comment)

>

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> 4/9/2002: TT - Stage 2 pap 2.5 x 2 x 1.6 cm nodule, dx Hashimotos

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> > Alisa/:

> >

> > I thought LID stood for " low iodine diet " , not NID (no iodine diet).

> We are talking here about a 2lb container of margarine, in which the

> amount of the prohibitive substance (I know that sounds a little to

> dramatic, but at 7:00 am in the morning and just having awaken I

> cannot think of a more gentler phrase. Maybe its the government

> bureaucrat emerging at this early hour.) is less than 1% (in fact

> .02%) of the total contents. Are we not going a bit overboard?

> >

> > Yawn, Jim

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